France might not have shown up for the Euro 2008 soccer finals, but it continues to demonstrate the most adoption of open source, according to a current report from Forrester Research (”Open Source Adoption: Notes From The Field”). In France, 24 percent of the enterprises surveyed by Forrester are currently using open source, with another 15 percent either piloting it or planning to start a pilot within the next year (the other 61 percent are using open source but simply don’t know it :-).

The United Says? It’s at 17 percent adoption with another 11 percent in near-term pilots. Canada is tied with the US while Germany, along with France, leads.

International Adoption of Open Source

(Credit: Forrester Research)

As noted in the comments to an earlier post, these low numbers advocate that Forrester is speaking to the wrong people within enterprises. I’m confident in suggesting that at least 90 percent of these same companies that Forrester surveyed are actively using open source…but the CIO simply doesn’t know it.

… Source:The Open Road

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