North Bridge Venture Partners recently conducted a survey of open source vendors and their customers and some of the results are relevant to the NXS business model:

1. The respondents overwhelmingly agreed that a general economic downturn would be good for open source businesses because of the cost savings inherent to free software. It seems obvious that the additional savings of near-shoring would bolster that opinion.
2. The respondents also speculated that web content management, web publishing and social software are the industry sectors which will be most impacted by the continuing ascent of open source software — and, as it happens, these are the exact areas that NXS specializes in.