____/ 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
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