O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17-20 October, 2005

Session
FLOSS use in European government: Survey Results
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Track: Business
Date: Tuesday, 18 October 2005
Time: 16:50 - 17:35
Location: St. John's Room I
Understanding of attitudes towards and usage of Free/Libre/Open Source Software has been based on anecdotes. Within the EU-funded FLOSSPOLS project, a large comprehensive survey of government IT managers was conducted in 10 languages across 13 EU countries leading to a total of 955 valid responses. This is probably the world's largest detailed survey of FLOSS use in government, and shows interesting results.

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