What Open Source Users Really Use

摘要

An intriguing discussion at last week's Red Hat Summit in Boston revolved around a synopsis of Alfresco's third Open Source Barometer. The Barometer is drawn from opt-in data of 35,000 community members of the open source content management outfit Alfresco about who's using what and why among people doing content management. For every revelation that had me nodding in recognition, there was another that came as a total surprise. The first big surprise is how important Windows is in the open source picture, something that will no doubt hearten everyone in Redmond trying to build more civil and cooperative ties with the open source community. Four of 10 in the survey prefer to download and try open source packages on a standalone PC running Windows; if they like what they see, then they go do the actual deployment, most often on a Linux machine, one typically running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Fedora.