OSS for companies: What his today the place of Open Source solutions in companies?

II- OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES


II-1 What his today the place of Open Source solutions in companies?


It is not that easy to evaluate with precision what is today the world use of Open Source solutions.However a lot of market research have been made on this topic by taking a panel of hundreds of companies.Most of the results of these different panel are coherent with each other
In this report I took as a panel the work done by the IOUG (Independant Oracle Users Group).They made a recent survey in 2007 .This survey takes is based on 226 companies from small and medium to large companies.