Comments on: Forrester: Europe leads in open-source adoption
Germany and France are cited as the biggest users of open-source software, but the research firm's numbers indicate that it's talking to the wrong people within enterprises.
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- by ydemontcheuil July 17, 2008 11:45 AM PDT
- As an open source vendor with a sizable community on both sides of the pond, and doing lots of business in Europe and in the US, I have to say that I am not surprised to see France and Germany so well positioned (Talend is getting lots of traction in these two territories) but the US are in good position also and recent successes at companies such as US Cellular, Fidelity or Rubbermaid are proving that open source adoption in the enterprise is on the rise. And I am talking about CIO level here - not grass roots.
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(3 Comments)Regarding grass roots adoption, that we track by measuring downloads by geography of our GPL product Talend Open Studio, as well as user registrations, the US lead, and we find that our numbers are proportionally consistent with global IT market sizes.