Yesterday’s Guardian contained a supplement on the state of ICT in our schools as part of a joint project with BECTA. It’s contents can now be found on the paper’s website, introduced thus:
This supplement pulls together six surveys carried out over the past two years on keys areas of ICT in schools. It’s an attempt […]
Mozilla announced the winners of its Extend Firefox Contest to find the best extensions for the browser. Reveal - which creates thumbnails for page session histories - took the top prize, with Web Developer and Showcase also taking gongs.
Firefox itself has won a popularity contest with just under 50% of respondents saying it was the […]
According to a survey conducted by Optaros, companies with turnover > $1billion reported average savings in the neighbourhood of $3.3 million as at result of open source software. The same survey found that around 87% of respondent companies use OSS, with Apache, Linux and various web browsers found to be the most popular.
Ars Technica and […]
French analysts XiTi have published a study on Firefox’s market share by geographical location. Worldwide, Europe and Australia lead with 20.11% and 18.60% respectively, with North America close behind on 15.88%.
Stats from within the EU show (perhaps not surprisingly) Finland leading the game with a massive 38% - something eFinland noticed - followed by […]
ZDNet recently completed a very interesting survey into attitudes towards open source in the public sectors of various European countries and America, neatly summed up by an enthusiastic Europe and a wary America (”too close to socialism?” perhaps); the UK’s attitude is, apparently, “confused but enthusiastic”. You can also read a some editorial on the […]
According to a survey by SciVisum, as many as 1 in 10 UK-based sites contain non-standard code which does not work properly in Firefox. Guilty parties include luminaries such as Odeon.co.uk and JobCentre.gov.uk, the latter despite the UK government’s drive to implement W3C standards on its web content.
The story has been all over the place […]
A survey by Computer Economics found that the top reason Linux-using visitors to their website gave for using OSS was “reduced dependence on software vendors”.
From the Inquirer
The Society of IT Management (SocITM) has released the results of a survey into the use of open source software by local authorities in the UK. We have a complete copy of the results which we’ll publish shortly.
Some of the headlines the report has generated include:
“Local authorities keen on open source” - ZDNet
“Cost […]
From the FT.
A survey commissioned by the FT found that more than 60 per cent of UK local authorities intended to increase their use of open source.
Microsoft faces pressure across Europe over its software pricing, which leaves public bodies facing huge bills for upgrading the Windows program.
Other countries are considering their options and could use […]
UK business and IT analysts Quocirca have published the results of an online survey into the motivations behind decisions by businesses to twist or stick on a move to desktop Linux. The original report can be obtained on this page and there is some response to the report on DestopLinux.com.