Penguin Not Taking Flight Down Under

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @06:42PM from the flightless-birds dept.

Bill Bennett writes "New Zealand Reseller News reports that Linux adoption down under is three times lower than North America. From the article: 'Adoption of open source software is slow in the Australasian region according to a report from analyst firm Forrester. Only 18% of the businesses in Australia and New Zealand surveyed for the report were using Linux, while 11% were considering its use. Analyst Sam Higgins says the low rate - three times lower than North America - is because open source is caught between two worlds. He says customers have been conditioned to buy software from vendors and their approved partners.'"

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bad survey? by ZhuLien · 2006-01-17 18:50 · Score: 0, Troll

That's because in Australia organisations that do surveys do so in a way that doesn't represent the demographics. I know of 5 companies that were not surveyed which use Linux for various purposes.