Open source up 26% in the enterprise

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Open source up 26% in the enterprise

Post by greggh » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:33 pm

http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/ ... ce_up.html
More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26% year-on-year. Enterprises on average used a whopping 94 different open source packages last year, compared to 75 in 2006…
Its 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%).
Interesting. Other than Apache, I wonder what the other commonly used packages using the Apache license are.

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Re: Open source up 26% in the enterprise

Post by Tsuroerusu » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:35 pm

greggh wrote:http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/ ... ce_up.html
More good news for the open source community just in: an analysis of its enterprise customers by OpenLogic found that for 2007 as a whole, the use of open source among enterprise customers is up 26% year-on-year. Enterprises on average used a whopping 94 different open source packages last year, compared to 75 in 2006…
Its 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%).
Interesting. Other than Apache, I wonder what the other commonly used packages using the Apache license are.
I think SpamAssassin uses the Apache license.
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