Companies are now established to help libraries adopt Open Source software solutions without the need for in-house support and development staff. Nick describes the ways in which a company such as PTFS Europe can help overcome some of the procurement, implementation and support barriers preventing the more widespread adoption of these solutions.
11. But no one uses open source? Application Originally Released Fact Apache Web Server 1995 Serves 49.12% of all websites – June 2008 Linux Operating System 1991 Market share of new and used PCs running Linux is expected to grow from 3% in 2003 to 7% in 2008 Mozilla Firefox 2004 19.46% market share – September 2008 OpenOffice 1999 98 million downloads as of September 2007 – maybe 20% of business market MySQL 1995 25% market share, 50,000 downloads per day Java 1995 Today's six million Java developers are one of the largest communities of software developers