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OpenLogic Recaps 2007 Open Source Trends
Enterprises Adopting More Open Source Software Packages

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OpenLogic announced year-end statistics on enterprise open source adoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers.

Key Trends for 2007:

  • Increased adoption of open source: On average, enterprises reported using 94 different open source packages, up 26% from 75 in 2006.
  • Apache license most common license in the enterprise: Breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the GPL, is most common license in packages used in enterprises today. Sixty-two percent of the packages use Apache, 27% use some variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses. Since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total to more than 100%

Top 25 open source software packages (includes ties): OpenLogic ranked the most common 25 open source packages (plus ties), as reported by enterprises. Hibernate and Struts topped the list with more than 71% of customers using each. JasperReports is the only newcomer to the list this year over last year's report.

  • Hibernate
  • Struts
  • Xerces
  • Log4j
  • Ant
  • Jakarta Commons
  • JUnit
  • Axis
  • Spring Framework (Spring)
  • POI
  • Eclipse
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • Xalan
  • Tomcat
  • Velocity
  • Jakarta Taglibs (JSTL)
  • JDOM
  • Perl
  • JBoss Application Server
  • iText
  • dom4j
  • Regexp
  • MySQL Server
  • PHP
  • CVS
  • JasperReports

Top categories for open source software adoption: OpenLogic also ranked the top categories for open source packages based on enterprise adoption.

  • Libraries and Utilities
  • XML related
  • Application Frameworks
  • Development tools
  • Build and Source Code Management
  • Database and Database tools
  • Application and Web Server
  • Programming Languages
  • Web/HTTP tools
  • Security tools
  • Web services

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Enterprise Open Source News Desk trawls the fast-growing world of Professional Open Source for business-relevant items of news, opinion, and insight.

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