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Wednesday 16 April 2008, 2:46 PM
Ubuntu takes early lead in Open Source Census
They announced it in December, but OpenLogic's census of open source software is now actually open for business.
I've downloaded and run the client software from the census site, and added one desktop to the database so far. It turns out I have 11 open source packages on that machine.
That puts me below average for the survey's participants. Apparently, there are only 29 machines on the survey so far (it's early days), and they have an average of more like 15 packages.
At this stage, the most common application in the census as a whole is commons-logging, a utility connected with Apache. followed by the Xerces XML parser.
Further down the list are packages more end-user oriented packages like gimp, firefox, and zlib compression.
Ninety percent of participants have Ubuntu, and about half are in the US (with an impressive and results-bending 33 percent from Finland). Two thirds of them are small businesses (ten to 49 people).
It's not statistically useful yet, but let's try refreshing the Census page to see how fast it's changing
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Looks like it's changing pretty fast! The most common app right now is Firefox (and I'd be surprised if that didn't stay the case).
Only a few participants from the UK...surely there are quite a few open-source users out there?
Actually, if I'm reading their pie charts right, that's just one participant from the UK, out of a total of 25 so far. This really is early days :-)
.. and I've just realised, that one is me!
254 machines there today.
