I just stumbled over an article in CIO.COM written by Esther Schindler. Based on the statistics published, 53% of the participants are using Open Source applications in their organization today, an additional 10 percent are planning to do so in the next year. Nearly half (44%) stated that Open Source solution are considered equally with proprietary solutions during the acquisition process. Of course operating systems and web server are always popular but more interesting is that 45% are using desktop applications such as OpenOffice.org and 29% use Open Source Enterprise applications. In general Open Source technologies are gaining confidence. Reasons for picking Open Source are primarly of financial nature (56%), but flexibility is catching up with 32%, access to the source code is ramping up to 30%. Looking at the barriers product support concerns are raised by 45%, awareness/knowledge of available solutions comes up second with 29%. And this is where our Enterprise Open Source Directory comes into play. Good! Other barriers mentioned with lower priority are security concerns, lack of management support and licensing/legal questions, that clearly seen less of an issue compared with some years ago.

So, we didn’t really need another survey to be convinced, but it’s a good sign that enterprises using Open Source are on the right track.

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