Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year

Open Source LogoCBR 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%).”  Read the full story on CBROnline.Com found via SlashDot.Org

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One Response to “Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year”

  1. vistasucks Says:
    February 1, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    Wow. Almost as long as Vista has been out. Sounds like business’ won’t stand for shovelled $#!t forever. Perhaps Microsoft should take some drastic plans for the future where Windows isn’t bringing in the money like it used to. Maybe they should… Oh I dunno.. buy Yahoo or something.

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