Red Hat Publishes Study on Worldwide Open Source Activity and Growth

“The global growth of open source continues to increase across
the private sector, government and individuals. As an industry
leader, Red Hat presents this study to the community as a framework
and tool for furthering the interest and understanding of open
source adoption.

“”Through the formation of the Open Source Channel Alliance, we
are making investments in open source because of the trusted
solutions and potential for significant cost savings that it brings
to the marketplace–two factors that, we believe, will drive open
source adoption in the mid-market,” commented Peter Larocque,
president of U.S. distribution at SYNNEX Corporation. “This
alliance will enable us to provide complete open source solution
packages that can deliver the kind of return-on-investment that our
customers require, especially given the current economic
environment.”

“The study measures open source using two separate indices: one
for activity and another for environment. The activity index
measures the amount of open source currently present in a country
and includes concrete factors such as existing open source and open
standards policies and the number of open source software users or
producers. The environment index includes factors at a country
level that may further, or coexist with, open source activity such
as a high number of Internet users. An interactive map highlighting
country rankings is available here.”

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