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Business Processes Using Open Source Increases
Adoption of open-source software (OSS) is becoming pervasive, with 85 percent of companies surveyed currently using OSS in their enterprises and the remaining 15 percent expecting to in the next 12 months, according to a recent Gartner survey.
The survey was conducted in May and June 2008 and included 274 end-user organizations across various countries and [...]
Asian-African countries committed to using open source software
Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their commitment to using Open Source (OS) software instead of licensed software which was mostly being monopolized by big companies, a research and technology official said.
The resolve to use OS software would also be reaffirmed in an Asia-Africa Conference on Open Source (AAOS) [...]
Asia set to ‘give back’ to open source
Asia is in the middle of a mass adoption wave of open source technology, and the floodgates of innovation will open following this wave in two to three years, according to open source vendors.
Following recent remarks made by MySQL co-founder, David Axmark, on Asia’s lack of contribution back to the open source community, fellow industry [...]