ccording to Co-founder of Technetra, Robert Adkins, Indian business enterprises are expected to spend $ 25.12 billion on information technology in 2006. "The spending would be more than 23.7 percent over the past year. Of this the Open Source market can look for at least 40-50 percent share as the opportunity," he said.

The main drivers spearheading adoption of OS are industry, enterprise and large verticals and educational institutes who are enamored by the tremendous cost saving and hassle free environment in the Open Source Platforms. Open Source has made a breakthrough in India, where less than 5 percent population are comfortable with English, by demonstrating the scope of power of local language computing as enabler for percolation of benefits of IT to the grassroots.