From: "Joe Barr" 

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/article.php/2226741

Study Shows Majority Use Linux In-House June 24, 2003 By Sharon Gaudin

Despite the fact that only a third of leading technology companies have
adopted Linux as a corporate standard, a new study shows that nearly 60
percent are already using it in-house.

Fifty-nine percent of the 8,000 senior managers at companies with more than
1,000 employees reported that they have Linux running in their IT
departments. Stability (with 65 percent) was rated as the top reason to use
Linux, according to the report released by the Open Source Development Lab
(OSDL), in conjunction with the SDTimes. Stability was followed by total
cost of ownership (63 percent); deployment cost (61 percent); performance
(58 percent), and security (50 percent).

''We found it particularly interesting that these managers included
stability and security among the top five reasons for bringing Linux into
their corporate networks,'' says Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. ''These are
issues where some proprietary operating systems have suffered from
well-publicized shortcomings.''


--

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4