BNAmericas/LinuxInsider: More Than 40 Percent of Argentine Companies Use Open Source

"Argentine companies are showing more interest in adopting open-source software, with 42 percent already using it and 4 percent testing it, local newspaper El Cronista reported, citing a study by local consultancy Trends Consulting.

"Trends ran the study in the first half of the year among 115 companies. Of the firms that use Linux, 4.5 percent plan to migrate all their systems to Linux in the short-term, 16 percent plan to adopt it only for new applications and 79.5 percent plan to analyze each application and decide case by case..."

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