55% of North American companies rely on open source software for mission critical applications
Fact recorded on: September 12, 2006. Categories: Software dev.
According to Forrester Research, 56% of North American organizations are already using open source software and another 19% said they planned to use it in the coming year. The adoption has taken off so quickly that today, 55% of companies in North America say they use open source software in “mission-critical” applications.
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