Mark Smith on Open Source BI: From Commoditization or Complexity?

I was at the Sun Open Source BI Summit and it was interesting to see a presentation by Mark Madsen that Open Source is taking hold due to the commoditization of software in the market. Using BI as one example that has hit the mainstream and peaked, his observation is that Open Source is spawning more rapidly as the commercial on-premise software is generally the same across BI vendors. Let me...