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Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year
CBR is reporting that open source use in the workplace is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Up 26% since last year, businesses are using 94 different open source tools to get the job done. "[OpenLogic's] breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the GPL, is the most common license. 62% of the packages use Apache, 27% use some variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses (since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total to more than 100%).
From the article:
"Enterprises on average used a whopping 94 different open source packages last year, compared to 75 in 2006..."
I read somewhere that something like 90% of large companies use free and open source software somewhere in their business.
This probably isn't on their desktop machines of course. It is more likely to be things like web. dns and email servers, and network routers.
Apache license != Apache web server
Just because you use Apache HTTP server doesn't mean you are running PHP. Apache can be used to serve all kinds of dynamic content. For example:
Apache -> Tomcat (Java)
Apache -> Mongrel (ruby on rails)
Apache -> CGI (whatever)
I would guess that Apache/Tomcat/Jboss installs are more common than PHP in commercial enterprises.
As others have mentioned there are tons of projects using the Apache license. Spamassassin is a good example.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Not only is the summary is extremely misleading, it links to an equally misleading blog post with no direct link to TFA, which I found here
Caveat Utilitor
According to TFA it's the number of free software packages that's "up 26%", not business use of free software.
Bad submitter, bad!!!.
Bad editors, bad! Bad!
Caveat Utilitor