TechWorld: Open Source is Widespread But Much is Invisible

“Councils are clearly moving towards open source, as noted in
our story a few days ago. However, equally interesting is the
guidance that’s being dished out to IT managers by SocITM, the
Society of IT Managers, which represents IT managers in the public
sector, from local councils to the police and fire services,
housing authorities and other locally delivered public
services.

“The survey recently undertaken by SocITM to determine just how
much open source software (OSS) was being used found that 34 per
cent use OS applications and 39 per cent use OS infrastructure
software such as Linux…”

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