Use of FOSS to increase due to a need for cost savings during hard times. This may cause market share of other FOSS projects to accelerate due to the quality experienced by those previously unenlightened. Basically, the recession will be a good reason for a first crack at FOSS integration for many organizations.

Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU
via Slashdot: Linux by Soulskill on 1/2/09

RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:”Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year. … [Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation] sees Linux and the FOSS ecosystem surrounding it as having insurmountable advantages in any market over its main competitor Windows — advantages that an economic downturn only intensifies. At a time when a search for the lowest possible price point is happening in such areas as notebooks, FOSS is available at no cost. It is easy to rebrand and customize in a way that Windows Isn’t, and is also technically more efficient.”

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