bryncoles
April 24th, 2009, 02:12 PM
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/
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/