Often quote the Gartner market research to understand what is the use of free software in the enterprise production.
order not to lose the habit, here is a new search (from Gartner of course) on FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).
A recent survey found that more than half of organizations surveyed have adopted free software as part of their IT strategy.
Almost one third of respondents cited among the reasons for the adoption of OSS solutions flexibility, greater innovation, shorter development times and faster.
The survey was conducted among 547 IT managers of major organizations in 11 countries around the world from July 2010 to August 2010. The objective was to determine the current and future adoption of FLOSS and usage habits.
"Gaining a competitive advantage has emerged as an important reason for the adoption of FLOSS solutions, suggesting that users are starting to look differently FLOSS, where you can customize the code to make it single their company, thus creating a competitive advantage, "said Laurie Wurster, research director at Gartner.
Gartner's survey indicated that just over a fifth of the responding organizations (22 per cent ) adopted FLOSS solutions consistently across all departments.
However, a very large number of respondents (46 percent) use FLOSS in departments and special projects. addition, the 21 percent of respondents revealed that they were in the process of assessing the benefits of using OSS.
five years now that Gartner does thorough investigations on the use of free software and the solutions adopted in the enterprise.
The amount of FLOSS is used by the portfolio of organizations surveyed increased from less than 10 percent five years ago to a projected more than 30 per cent within the next 18 months.
In that same period the rate of use of proprietary software has been reduced about the same rate of increase of FLOSS.
The software, however, developed in-house has increased, suggesting that FLOSS is used more often in combination with the software built internally rather than as a complete replacement for proprietary software.
In addition to surveys are always interesting and positive for free software, it raises an important food for thought.
companies finally seem to understand that the benefits of free software are not only economic but also qualitative.
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