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As has been true for quite some time now, economic malaise and the maturity of applications and platforms are continuing to boost the market for open source software. Those trends are also helping to build a healthy ecosystem for commercial open source companies, and enterprise adoption of open source. Today, market researchers at IDC are reporting on a new study that predicts that worldwide revenue from open source software will grow at a 22.4 percent compound annual growth rate to reach $8.1 billion by 2013. Here are some of the other key findings.