Interview with David Lee, CEO of Cambridge (Mass.)-based Advent Consulting,
“A recent Jupiter Research survey shows a growing number of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) using open-source alternatives to Microsoft (MSFT ) products. About 9% of SMBs are using Red Hat (RHAT ) Linux on the desktop, and 7% are using the OpenOffice productivity suite, which contains word processing and spreadsheet programs.”
Wow, that’s great news for the OSS community!
The proportion of SMBs utilizing OpenOffice.org should be higher than those utilizing RedHat Linux, or atleast equal, since OO.o is being used on both linux and windows platforms.
Anyway, this is good news.
You forget that Red Hat can also be used on the server.
Yes. but the article addresses the desktop category in particular. (or perhaps the editors just got the figures wrong).
Anyway, one thing i am sure of, is that more than %50 of OO.o users are running the windows platform.
“Anyway, one thing i am sure of, is that more than %50 of OO.o users are running the windows platform.”
Really? What makes you so sure? Why would anybody in Windows just not use Works instead, if they don’t have Office?
Because OO.o is a lot better and more featured than Works, and Works still isn’t free?
I would believe that number where there any actual proof of it in the article. However, this article is just an interview with the CEO of a company that specializes in converting small businesses to Open Source; not exactly an unbiased judge. Doing consulting myself, I can say that nowhere near 10% of the small businesses I work with use Open Source. In sum, this article is nothing more than this guy trying to drum up more business for himself.
>Doing consulting myself, I can say that nowhere near 10% of the small
>businesses I work with use Open Source.
in my its about 100% of the companies we do consulting for use Open-Source. Being it on the server, the desktop, an email client,
a webbrowser.
I think your figures have to be higher since Firefox, OpenOffice, php, mysql etc are open-source too besides that a lot of router and switches are using open-source too.