Who's Using Open Source?

Although just about every enterprise has been touched by Linux, Apache, JBoss, Firefox, Perl, and other OS technologies, we have found these articles to be illuminating on the broader implications of the OS adoption trend.

Intelligent Enterprise (7/2006) Open Source BI Projects Taking Off. Several case studies covered.

Ventana Research: OSBI Adoption Trends

CIO.com (9/2006) examines 10 myths of OS, citing several corporate examples

An excellent portal that details the growing adoption of OS within the commercial marketplace

Information Week article (9/2005) describing adoption by F500 companies such as Disney, Cendant and ABN/AMRO.

Follow up Information Week article (10/2005) with additional survey data pertaining to why companies are utilizing open source

An early CIO Magazine article (5/2003) chronicling TCO success for early OS adopters

Sony Online Entertainment switches from Oracle to EnterpriseDB (PostgreSQL based). First of the F500 to announce a significant commitment to OSDB.

We found this blogger's opinion regarding the Sony announcement to be particularly insightful.

CIO Today (5/2006) discusses how to "buy" open source software.

War Stories from Open Source Pioneers