Daily Research News: Open Source--The Outlook for 2004 | Linux Today

Daily Research News: Open Source–The Outlook for 2004

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2004

“IT buyers expect spend on Open Source/Linux applications to
grow by 2.8% in 2004, according to the NOP World Technology
Confidence Barometer. Thirty per cent of organisations surveyed are
using Open Source with a further 32% considering implementing it in
the next 12 months.

“The majority (79%) of those who have implemented Open Source
use it with their Infrastructure Servers. Other widespread uses are
Workgroups (38%) and Desktops (37%)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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