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Open Source Census lands next week
September 25, 2008

The latest results from the Open Sourc Census -- a global project sponsored by companies including IDC, Microsoft, Unisys and organized by OpenLogic -- come out next week. I can't say too much due to an embargo but aparently among the data is the finding that the US lags Europe in open source usage, and that a large amount of open source packages are actually used on Windows.

They're going to reveal all the details on Tuesday at www.osscensus.org, and I'll blog them here then, too.

The goal of the Census is said to be to, "uncover and track how much and what open source packages have actually been installed in the enterprise". It's also said to be useful for businesses to benchmark themselves against others in the industry.

A while back I wrote a blog looking at the adoption of open source in different countries. That too found that the US lagged many European countries in terms of adoption, and that it even lagged Australia for adoption. That blog is here.

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Posted by Jason Stamper on September 25, 2008 01:30 PM

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