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| According to a survey by CIO.com in April, 53% of respondents have actively
| deployed open-source applications within their organizations, and an
| additional 10% are looking to follow suit within the next year. Of those
| respondents who actively use open source, 62% believe Linux is ready for
| wide-scale use in mission-critical systems.
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http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp3041%2F33p41%2F33p41%2F33p41.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True
Why Open Source is hot now?
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| Open source software and solutions have a great opportunity to survive and
| benefit in this economy as they provide better returns for the companies that
| are looking to save huge licensing costs and greater availability of
| solutions and software that can be easily adopted.
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| Open source software and solutions have matured over years and a bigger
| community to support them. There are several solutions from multiple vendors
| for business problems and substantially less expensive compared to commercial
| software from the proprietary software companies.
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http://advice.cio.com/manjukg/why_open_source_is_hot_now
Recent:
Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/01/0856237
Canonical To VARs: 11% of U.S. Businesses Use Ubuntu Linux
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| In an effort to rally solutions providers around Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is
| telling resellers that 11 percent of U.S. businesses already run Ubuntu.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/10/canonical-to-vars-11-of-us-businesses-use-ubuntu-linux/
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