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Open Source: OS Trends in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

OpenLogic published a list of Open Source trends that they see developed in 2007:OpenLogic found that an average enterprise now uses 94 open source packages, that’s up from the 75 they counted in 2006, an increase of 26%. Next the 25 most frequently used open source packages in the enterprise were identified. Hibernate and Struts tied for the most popular with 71 percent of all enterprises using them in some capacity.

They found that the most common OS license in the enterprise is Apache, not GPL. Of the top 25 packages used in enterprises, 62 percent were Apache, 27 percent were GPL, and 4 percent for each of BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl license.

The top categories found for OS in the enterprise are:

  • Libraries and Utilities
  • XML related
  • Application Frameworks
  • Development tools
  • Build and Source Code Management
  • Database and Database tools
  • Application and Web Server
  • Programming Languages
  • Web/HTTP tools
  • Security tools
  • Web services
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