Economic crisis good for open source?

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Redhat, claimed the economic crisis would boost open source in the enterprise, relative to its commercial counterpart.
Compared to commercial software requiring high upfront licensing costs and providing less flexibility, FOSS might be doing better indeed. But the economic downturn might encourage CIOs to choose for the status quo and block or delay new projects. That will certainly do no good to Free and Open Source Software.