The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few highlights: -More than one third of the respondents reported that they have deployed an open source database in production, which is a higher rate than for open source tools, frameworks or applications. -Nearly three-quarters of that group have MySQL installed -The availability The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few highlights: -More than one third of the respondents reported that they have deployed an open source database in production, which is a higher rate than for open source tools, frameworks or applications. -Nearly three-quarters of that group have MySQL installed -The availability of “express editions” from Oracle, Microsoft and others has not slowed down adoption of open source databases -Over 50% plan on increasing their use of open source software in the next year -63% of those using open source databases use it for specific single function systems, 45% for custom home grown, 37% for departmental applications, 34% for customer facing web sites and only 12% each for ERP and BI and 7% for transactional If you’re an IOUG member you can download the survey from their site. Alternatively, since MySQL was a sponsor of the survey, you can get it from our site also. Open Source