The Open Solutions Alliance has released an assessment of free software growth and the directions the movement will take in 2008. This is an interesting group that is new on the scene, having just been formed in November 2006. They appear to have put some thought into their predictions report, which you can download as a PDF.

The founding companies of this alliance are an interesting mix: “Adaptive Planning, Centric CRM, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo, SourceForge.net, SpikeSource and Talend.”