By Detector | 18 August 2010

According to researching of Zenoss Company, almost 98% of large companies in their business are using products based on open source code.

The study lasted 4 years and also shows that they are changes in general perception of using open source code. The users believe in easy set up solutions and quality of code for free or such a low prices.

In exactly percents, 71% of respondents in 2009 are used the open source solutions and they are convinced in easy setup which is big increase compared to 48% in 2008 or 38% in 2007 and 26% in 2006. Also, the 76% of system administrators in large companies said that they prefer to use open source solutions. In other hand, as a main reason why not to use open source solutions is poor documentation followed by software, but there is a big leap in that area also.

For more info check Zenoss web page.

Tags | Business, Linux, Open Source, Software