Research firm Gartner says that proprietary will be feeling the pinch over the next five years, predicting that open source will steal 22 percent of the traditional software market.
Industry analysts IDC are tipping heavy growth in Asia Pacific’s document management solution market, estimating it to be worth U.S.$94.3 million in 2005 - a growth of almost 80% over 2004.
Symantec has announced a set of security and availability tools and services that it says, helps cut the cost of compliance through more efficient governance of internal processes.
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has added its voice to the open vs closed source security debate, saying that open-source software is by default more secure than proprietary code due variety of distributions.
Computer Associates International (CA) is making inroads into the records management and compliance arena with its recently announced purchase of New Jersey (U.S.)-based MDY Group International.