Open Source Census Shows 220,000 Installations
The Open Source Census is a collaborative project started by OpenLogic with the aim of collecting and sharing quantitative data on the use of open source software, and has revealed that more the 220,000 open source packages and project installations are in use on business hard drives. The census now aims to delve further in to open source products used by enterprise adapters. The project has many sponsors, one of them being Microsoft.
According to the census finding released on Monday, thus far, the top open source packages found installed in business offices – in order – are Firefox, Xerces, Zlib, Xalan and Prototype. The Linux OS Ubuntu is the top Linux Distribution on machines scanned to this point.
Various versions of Ubuntu accounted for almost half of all Linux distributions installed on participating machines. Debian accounted for 14 percent; Suse Linux distributions accounted for 12 percent of install base and Fedora Core with 7 percent.
“At the enterprise level, we found 59 different installed packages a bit lower than we expected. This is probably because the census is still in the early stage. We expect to see the number of different installed packages to grow to around 100,” Weins explained.
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They only track 1200 People
The company is also run by a Microsoft employees (former). It makes you wonder it's a monitoring project for faus 'studies' and patents.
Best to ignore OpenLogic.