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Aug. 6, 2010

Almost 70 percent of companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations are planning to increase investments in Linux and open source software.

About 28.7 percent saying they expect to migrate mission critical applications to Linux and open source within the next year, according to recent survey results released by IT research firm Accenture.

The study of about 300 large public and private sector organisations in the U.S., the U.K. and Ireland, reveals that about 49 percent said they were fully committed to open source and about 32 percent said they were still experimenting with Linux and open source.

However, Accenture's report also indicates that about 28.7 percent of organizations are willing to contribute code back to the Linux community.

This despite a marginal increase in the amount of software developed as open source, which Accenture's study says is rising from a little over 19.7 percent last year to an expected 24 percent this year.

The report projects a 27 percent increase by 2013.

"The current wave of companies adopting Linux and open source are experiencing strong benefits. But there are still organizations that are somewhat hesitant about the shared community model," said Accenture's chief technology architect, Paul Daugherty.

The study also compared results in the United States as well as those in the U.K., finding that U.K. companies are generally more enthusiastic about the benefits of open source and Linux than U.S. companies, but that compared to the U.K., twice as many U.S. companies expected to increase their investment in Linux and open source.

Overall cost savings were only cited by about 51 percent of the respondents as their reason for adoption of open source.

Overall, about 75 percent cited quality, 71 percent cited reliability and 69 percent said better security as their main reasons for their plans to switch to Linux and open source.

And according to Accenture, this is a major change from the historical pattern as in 2008, cost savings were the key driver for Linux and open source adoption.

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Source: Accenture IT Research.

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