Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 11 July 2007 14:11 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Open source take-up booming in APAC
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in
>>>| Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC
>>>| survey.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Open-source-take-up-booming-in-APAC/0,130061733,339279806,00.htm
>>>
>>> Ouch. They didn't Get the Facts, did they?
>>>
>>
>> This is interesting, as we've seen several stories indicating that
>> take-up of open-source in Asia and Australasia had been poor indeed.
>> There is a huge problem with trying to work out open-source usage, as
>> nobody ever has to admit to it.
>>
>> I wonder, now, if usage is maybe an order of magnitude higher than is
>> realised?
>
>
> I wrote the following the other day and it even made Slashdot. It explains why
> Linux count is grossly biased.
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3687616
>
Good article, well done Sir!
(queue Quark for some abuse at this point).
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