Surveys Show Increase In OSS Popularity

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @10:24AM from the popular-penguins dept.

segphault writes "Ars Technica takes a look at the results of two different surveys about open source software adoption." From the article: "The survey also addresses the most important question: what motivates organizations to adopt open source software? According to Optaros, cost savings is one of the most significant factors. Optaros says that companies with over US$1 billion annual revenue reported average savings of $3.3 million in 2004 as a result of open source technology, and companies with annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion reported an average savings of $1.1 million."

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in todays news by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 10:26 · Score: 5, Funny

studies show that studies about the obvious reveal obvious facts.
Re:Took them long enough by Cal+Paterson · 2006-01-20 12:35 · Score: 2, Funny

(bad spelling.../. should warn for spelling error)

For two reasons:
1) "propietary" is spelt "proprietary"
2) "Inerty" isn't a word, I believe you mean "inertia"