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[News] 77% of Businesses Use or Plan to Use Free Software

  • Subject: [News] 77% of Businesses Use or Plan to Use Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:22:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Survey Confirms Strategic Importance of Open Source

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| And open source is gaining in popularity. 77 percent of businesses were 
| either planning to deploy, or had already deployed, open source software in 
| their core business systems, shattering outdated preconceptions of the 
| inappropriateness of such technology in a mission-critical enterprise 
| environment.    
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http://home.nestor.minsk.by/networks/news/2007/07/1901.html

There is another study, but it comes from a business analyst that also
produces 'studies' for Microsoft (anti-Linux material). Anyway, here it is:

New Frost & Sullivan Paper Points to Next Explosive Growth Area for Mobile
Operators and Service Providers

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| An open source standards-based consumer push email solution is not just a 
| benefit to developers. It provides mobile operators and service providers 
| with broad device compatibility, low cost, ease of use and the flexibility 
| required to tap into the mass market.   
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http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/07/19/AQTH061/new-frost-sullivan-paper-points-to-next-explosive-growth-area-for-mobile-operators-.html

It still appears to be just some sockpuppet that produces studies for whatever
companies pay for. Frost & Sullivan -- research papers for 'hire'.

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