Continuing on the theme of my previous post on the adoption of Open Source in Europe versus the US, Actuate today released findings from their aannual survey of Open Source adoption. Some highlights:
- Europe leads the way in its preference for open source platforms, particularly in the deployment of new applications, and replacement of outdated systems, with France and Germany at the forefront.
- Close to two-thirds (61.6%) of French respondents and German respondents (63.6%) stated that Open Source software is either the preferred option, or explicitly considered as an option when procuring software.
- In the UK, that the proportion of respondents believing that the benefits of Open Source software outweigh the inhibitors increased this year to 54.0% (from 45.3% in 2007). This figure rises to 65.4% in France, North America 53.5% and Germany 48.6%
I don't think the results will come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the market for Open Source software inthe US and Europe. The implications for Open Source businesses remain unchanged: US Open Source software companies must find ways to take their business global from day one.
A lot of the open source seems to be less glichy than the pre installed microsoft software, but sometimes has compatability problems between my computers.
Posted by: mac insleads | February 08, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Just a few words about Open Source Software. Since the adoption of open source has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. Open source software began as a marketing campaign for free software. OSS can be defined as computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license that meets the Open Source Definition. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Some well known OSS products include projects such as Linux,Ubuntu,OpenOffice, Firefox, Apache, the GNU Compiler Collection, and Perl. www.net-ebooks.com
Posted by: John McCall | February 22, 2009 at 10:09 AM