Looking at the impact of FLOSS on European competitiveness in ICTs, the study finds that such software is of great importance to the digital industry in Europe and several other parts of the world. It has already reached considerable market share in several fields, including web servers and operating systems. A large share of public and private sector organizations use at least some FLOSS.

This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software (abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS) is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper’s goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring software.

"This survey shows that, while cost savings was the most typical benefit desired, there are other economic and technology benefits as well, including improving overall efficiency of IT, quality of products and processes, time-to-market, greater innovation, increased competition among service offerings, and more efficient use of resources across the industry...." Survey conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of Unisys.

Intended for policy and decision-makers in general, this primer gives an overview of the issues and technologies involved. Although geared more for developing countries, the points discussed and the resources contained in this primer are relevant to a broad range of individuals around the world. A very well written article from Asia.

In September 2006, IBM sponsored a survey of readers of its Open Source & LinuxLine newsletter to gauge the levels of adoption, planning, and platforms for Linux and other open-source software. The survey was conducted by Unisphere Research via e-mail notification, which directed participants to a Web-based survey instrument. A total of 434 anonymous responses were collected by the survey deadline.