world-wide figures on open-source software adoption

[bryncoles]

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2240969/brits-open-open-source


Western Europe, Australia, the US, China and Brazil top the league for open-source software support, with the UK ranking sixth in a list of 75 countries, behind France, Spain, Germany, Australia and Finland.


Figures released by IDC earlier this month [April] suggest that the value of enterprise spending on open-source Linux software is set to grow 21 per cent in 2009.

interesting!

*edit*

theres more:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/red-hat-study-generates-global-index-of-open-source-activity.ars

http://www.h-online.com/open/Red-Hat-s-map-of-the-open-source-world--/news/113120

including the 'activity map' and 'environment map' here:

http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/
http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/environment/

[cl333r]

China & open source?
I have some doubts, perhaps it deserves that position for the sheer number of participants, but in terms of % it's the (perhaps) most windows-and-IE addicted country, i.e. while the average world market share of windows and IE is about 88% and 65%, China's figures are like 95% and 95% correspondingly according to stat counter, it's like they're stuck in 2002-2003 when IE was the best browser and almost anyone was using it and macs & Linux seemed to not exist at all.