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  1. Aim of this page
  2. Reported Studies
    1. 2010
    2. 2008
    3. 2007
    4. 2004

Aim of this page

This page is intended to gather a maximum of links to studies, press articles about figures of the Free Software economic side. Namely :

  • How much money is business around Free Software generating?
  • Which percentage of organisations uses Free Software?
  • Does Free Software use in the public sector really generate economic activities in the region in question?
  • How many Free Software companies are there ?

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Reported Studies

2010

2008

* Open Forum Europe - "Open Source Software and eGovernment"

  • “By 2012 more than 90% of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded form” (Gartner)

  • “Proprietary vendors lose $60 billion to Open Source” (Standish Group)

  • “11% of all new commercial software requirements are satisfied by open source” (Standish Group)

2007

  • April 2007 Livres blancs sur les modèles économiques du logiciel libre

    • In 2006, the French Free Software market represents about 500m €, and 1.4% of the informatic services in France. In 2010, it should be 5000m€ and 5& of the market. (p 20.)

  • “The Impact of Free/Libre/Open Source Software on Innovation and Competitiveness of the European Union – UN University MERIT on behalf of the European Commission” 2007

    • Some 50% of organisations already are using OSS in some way
    • Firms have already invested €1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software.
    • Could reach 35% market share of all IT services by 2010.......and 5% of European GDP
    • Potentially saves industry over 36% in software R+D

  • Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! - April 16, 2007 Also available in short in a PDF presentation. Very circumstancial study, however based on numbers from 1999 to 2005, quite old

    • "FLOSS dominates web serving."
      • November 2005: Apache 70.98%, IIS 20.24% [Netcraft survey of 74,572,794 sites]
      • Active Sites: Apache 69.36%, IIS 24.31% [Netcraft]
    • GNU/Linux #2 server OS sold 99, 00, 01 (24%, 27%, 25%)
      • Fuzz studies found FLOSS applications significantly more reliable [U Wisconsin]
    • GNU/Linux #2 web serving OS in the 2000's

      • Windows : 49.6% ; GNU/Linux : 29.6% ; 2.4% MacOS, NetWare, proprietary IBM OSes

2004

  • Information week : Open source use : 67% of companies use OSS/FS products, with another 16% expecting to use it in 2005; only 17% have no near-term plans to support OSS/FS products