Alfresco will tomorrow publish the second annual installment of their open source barometer report; basically an in-depth survey of their 35,000 users. That's not to say this is representative of the entire universe of open source users, but it is a good bellweather indicator of what's going on in IT shops that use open source applications. Ian Howells, the man behind the report, is the only PhD I know in Market Alfresco will tomorrow publish the second annual installment of their open source barometer report; basically an in-depth survey of their 35,000 users. That’s not to say this is representative of the entire universe of open source users, but it is a good bellweather indicator of what’s going on in IT shops that use open source applications. Ian Howells, the man behind the report, is the only PhD I know in Marketing, and he’s got the statistical chops to back up his findings. I was able to get early access to a draft and it contains some interesting nuggets: – Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are both growing at more than 20% per year – Windows is used for 40% of Alfresco evaluations, but only 26% of the deployments (and mostly on XP rather than Vista) – MySQL is used by 60% of Alfresco deployments, with Oracle and SQL Server at around 14% each – Tomcat is the most widely deployed app server at around 70% There’s more detail in the full report which should be available on Alfresco’s site tomorrow. Open Source