Understanding the Market for Open Source Initiatives in the Education Industry (Market Focus)

This market focus brief looks at the drivers and inhibitors for education institutions adopting open sources software.

Report Highlights
Education institutions believe many of their needs are not being met by existing proprietary vendors. This report looks at the drivers and inhibitors that are pushing institutions towards open source software as a result.
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DATAMONITOR VIEW 1
CATALYST 1
SUMMARY 1
ANALYSIS 2
Open source solutions are here to stay and can take on a number of different formats 2
Open source solutions are taking an increasingly prominent role in the education market 2
Open source software is the chameleon of the technology industry 3
Learning management systems and operating systems are where open source will be most dominant 3
Institutions are being driven from multiple angles to adopt an open source solution 4
Lack of control over solutions is prompting institutions to look towards open source 4
Learning management systems are crucial to the learning process in an institution 5
Disenchantment with proprietary vendors is pushing some institutions to open source solutions 5
Many institutions feel they are feeding shared holders and not gaining value from the investment 6
Sharing of information is key to the pedagogical process 7
Some governments are compelling their educators to implement open source solutions 7
Justified or not a number of governments are wary of Microsoft's dominance 8
BRIC countries are likely to prove strong proponents of open sources - especially operating systems 9
Many institutions have no motivation whatsoever for implementing an open source solution 10
Open source solutions are not actually cheaper - as is often perceived 10
Smaller institutions struggle with the resources for an open source solution 10
K12 institutions ventures into open source will mainly be limited to operating systems 11
ERP and open source solutions are not easy bedfellows 12
ACTIONS 13
Vendors should seek to support institutions that choose open source 13
Many of the issues institutions currently have can be solved by proprietary software 13
Increased investment in developing solutions is critical 13
APPENDIX 14
Definitions 14
Methodology 14
Further reading 14
Ask the analyst 14
Datamonitor consulting 14
Disclaimer 15
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Figure 1: 56% of education institutions use an open source solution 3
Figure 2: Open source LMS market size for software and services, 2006-2012 4
Figure 3: Enabling further control is key to an institutions motivation for initiating an OSS 6
Figure 4: Open source market size for France, Germany and The Netherlands, 2006-2012 8
Figure 5: Some countries have a clear propensity towards open source over others 9
Figure 6: Institutions with small IT budgets feel intimidated by the prospect of adopting open source solutions 11
Figure 7: Global open source operating systems market in K12 12
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