Do Open Source in the enterprise market?

Quite unexpectedly, I was now on the backstage meeting (during the day, coffee in a cafe in central Moscow ) Momzhanom Bruce (Bruce Momjian), one of the main architects of PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB (. http://momjian. us / main / resume. html. ). I do not know exactly why he came to our country, but he, in particular, participated, performed at the last (yesterday?) Conference HighLoad ( annual conference for developers of highly loaded systems).

' Suddenly ' - because I do not specialize in Open Source and the DBMS. And more surprising was that the journalists at the meeting was, say there is a little unfamiliar and. I have this to the fact that the specialists expect to hear the issues in question, but not very successful (although I left an hour after the start, perhaps, then began the main thing ).

After a visit to the Russian Open Source Forum (. http://akolesov. livejournal. com/168284. html. ) I have published a post on the OSS are here:. http://www. raspo. ru / blog. html? id = 27. ( Summary: it's time to show things to their best ). After that - today was the first return to the topic.

While Bruce was talking about how it all began as open source software used in the West, I sat and thought: is there a real place for Open Source in the enterprise market? .

Something until I get rather negative response.

Yes, Open Source - it is a very good thing, as a growing medium IT fishery products ( startups razrabotchki, new ideas, directions). And as a corporate tool?.

Reduced capital costs (the cost of licenses). But the logic of changing requirements of customers shows that customers are increasingly concerned about the problem of capital and operating costs.

I asked this question a guest, he answered the long but not very convincingly. Again, an example of Linux. And after that OS for over 15 years. Has its share, but, in general, no more.
It's funny: originally created for the PC, and got the market share of servers. Appeared as a 'killer Windows', and the UNIX kill.

I asked him about the firm '1 C ', which sort of took up support in their Linux / PostgreSQL -' not heard of this '. However, there overseas guests here, and local (like me) will soon forget about it.

I'll have to ' decode ' recorded voice - to listen more carefully what was said by a foreign friend.