IDG October 21, according to the latest survey and industry research analysts in Europe and developing markets, open source software for its ease of low cost and has won many users, has developed rapidly.
According to the Netherlands, Maastricht University, the 12-nation European survey found that nearly 49% of local governments to use free of charge (free) and open source software (FLOSS), and this application is still further growth. The survey, mainly by telephone and network data analysis, the time the first half of this year from the end of last year, involved 955 people interviewed representatives from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland , Spain, Sweden and the UK.
It is responsible for the investigation of Maastricht Economic Research Institute director Rishab Aiyer
Ghosh said that 70% of FLOSS users to further expand the scope of use. Meanwhile, the survey, about 29% of respondents indicated they would not use FLOSS, such as GNU / Linux operating system, MySQL database or Apache
Web server software.
Meanwhile, the survey also found that IT managers to manage by the number of computers accounted for 66%, about 16% of managers do not use open source software, "a lot of people still use Microsoft products, because if transferred to other systems, people worry about problems. "
In business and government level, the European Association strongly supports the development and use people Zope open source application server software. Now, employees in large enterprises have begun to use small business and open source software. Intel's open source strategy experts
Danese Cooper said that in the open source world, the United Nations and other private organizations have begun a large number of open-source products. Popular open-source software, because it helps promote local economic development.