Where do our institutions stand?
Of 118 respondents that do use open source
software:
73 use open source software for
mission critical applications
66 use open source software in the
academic enterprise
63 have experimental uses of open
source outside of
CS/engineering
departments
56 use open source apps and
provide feedback to developers
39 contribute resources toward
open source development
33 have employees that contribute
to open source
development on their own time
26 have distributed their own
homegrown applications
How are they using OSS?
106 in servers, databases and infrastructure
82 in desktop operating systems
61 in curricular or collaborative applications
26 in desktop and administrative applications