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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Re:cost by belg4mit · 2006-01-20 11:53 · Score: 2, Informative

>sudo su
What's wrong with just su?

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Were that I say, pancakes?
Re:cost of ownership by intangible · 2006-01-20 17:40 · Score: 2, Informative

It's against the EULA of MS Windows to report any comparisons without Microsoft's approval.
morphs fortran code into C... by krischik · 2006-01-23 07:17 · Score: 2, Informative

... morphs Ada code into C.

Not the first time I hear this crap.

Damm where does this FUD come from. All base gcc front ends - that is (in alphabetical order) Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java and Objective-C are standart compiler systems - compiling directly into object code. No intermediate C at all.

Martin