Free software sales in Russia will grow to $ 200 million by 2010
At $ 50 million , Finam estimated Russian sales of free software in 2006. This market is growing faster than the domestic IT industry as a whole, and by 2010, analysts promise it a fourfold increase to $ 200 million. All Russian IT will have reached $ 40 billion by that time, i.e. will exceed last year by three times.
The largest share of sales by 2010 is expected in the market of server software, where the share of open source software can be 50%. At the same time, the server software itself will take about 10% of the total server market (including hardware). In Russia as a whole, the share of free server software will be noticeably higher than that in Europe and the USA, Finam predicts.
The situation is different in the open source client software market - here the prospects are less bright. Currently, the share of Linux in the market of client operating systems is about 0.5%. The dominant position in the foreseeable future will retain Windows. According to Elina Karaeva, director of Finam's high-tech investment center, if schools continue to use Microsoft software, the barriers to distributing free client software in the country will be strengthened. “The market can reorient itself to client-side Linux only if it receives support from the state,” Ms. Karaeva noted. “If this does not happen, we assume that in the coming years, the market for free client software in Russia will not go out of its embryonic state.”
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Free applications on the Windows platform in the country are more common. Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Gimp are present in at least 5-7% of computers.
Investholding notes that Linux vendors have traditionally been much more active in the promising mobile device market. According to forecasts, this operating system will become the leader of this segment, having occupied about 40% on it even before 2010. “At the moment, in the Russian market, unlike, for example, from the Chinese, mobile access devices with Linux are few, but the actions of manufacturers (in particular, Nokia) suggest that the situation is changing,” explains Elina Karaeva.
The largest share of sales by 2010 is expected in the market of server software, where the share of open source software can be 50%. At the same time, the server software itself will take about 10% of the total server market (including hardware). In Russia as a whole, the share of free server software will be noticeably higher than that in Europe and the USA, Finam predicts.
The situation is different in the open source client software market - here the prospects are less bright. Currently, the share of Linux in the market of client operating systems is about 0.5%. The dominant position in the foreseeable future will retain Windows. According to Elina Karaeva, director of Finam's high-tech investment center, if schools continue to use Microsoft software, the barriers to distributing free client software in the country will be strengthened. “The market can reorient itself to client-side Linux only if it receives support from the state,” Ms. Karaeva noted. “If this does not happen, we assume that in the coming years, the market for free client software in Russia will not go out of its embryonic state.”
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Free applications on the Windows platform in the country are more common. Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Gimp are present in at least 5-7% of computers.
Investholding notes that Linux vendors have traditionally been much more active in the promising mobile device market. According to forecasts, this operating system will become the leader of this segment, having occupied about 40% on it even before 2010. “At the moment, in the Russian market, unlike, for example, from the Chinese, mobile access devices with Linux are few, but the actions of manufacturers (in particular, Nokia) suggest that the situation is changing,” explains Elina Karaeva.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8408/
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