78 percent of all US companies to use open source software – Heise News Ticker

According to the annual US survey “Future of Open Source Survey” puts the majority of companies now open source software on a base

A significant increase of open source software in the company states the annual US survey “Future of Open Source Survey”. According to her to put on open source software in 78 percent of all companies in the entire operation or parts thereof. 2010, there were still been 42 percent.

Performed have the non-representative survey Black Duck Software and Northbridge in collaboration with Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research, and 43 other organizations, including start-ups, the leading open-source providers and international foundations. Who participated in the survey in 1300 C-level managers and IT professionals from different fields

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The respondents in the “Future of Open Source Survey” distributed rather unevenly.
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The alignment of the respondents can be attributed mainly to the partial results To read 66 percent indicated that their company software for customers. developed on open-source basis. 64 percent of companies are also involved in open source Projeken. The reason for the use of OSS called 58 percent better scalability, 55 percent and 43 percent higher security easier deployment than commercial software. 2013 was still the argument of safety first. The “most valuable” open source projects selected participants, among other OpenStack, Docker, Drupal, LibreOffice, Linux, Ubuntu and PostgreSQL.

That the survey but also highlights massive deficits in the management of open source software, in view of the initiators is no wonder: Black Duck develops and markets software for open source management. Northbridge Venture capitalists and has placed its focus on investing in software companies in the areas of open source and cloud. (sun)