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%).

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Re:Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year

[falconwolf]

At my uni they make us pay for Vista, XP, Office, Server 2003, etc by adding it to our tuition... and still no one uses it.

Fixed that for ya boss.

Actually MS almost gives Office et alia away to colleges students. This is one way MS achieves lockin, students get used to using them in college then when they start working they expect their employer to use them as well.

Falcon