Winners And Losers In Business Open-Source Software

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 10, 2013

Summary: OpenLogic has released its annual report on what's hot and what's not in business open-source programs.

We all know that Linux, Apache and Samba are vital for business data center servers, Web servers and file and print servers respectively in businesses both large and small. What you may not know though what's trending below the top-tier of open-source software. That's where OpenLogic, an enterprise open-source software provider and consultants comes in. In their recent study 2011 Open Source Adoption Trending Report, OpenLogic looks at the winners and losers in open-source software adoption.

According to the company's analysis, the fastest growing open-source projects from 2010 to 2011 in terms of business adoption were: