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Hammond, principle analyst with Forrester Research

Hammond says that open source initially wedged its way into enterprise environments based on cost savings

Hammond says that we're now seeing the second wave of open source adoption, being driven by improved flexibility to execute and positioning enterprises to grow when the recession ends.

Only one in five (21%) developers are not using open source as part of their work.

Application servers and operating systems are highest in organizations larger than 20,000 employees.

what's more interesting is the "u-shaped" curve where very small and very large organizations show high adoption.

Open source databases are outliers, with less adoption in larger companies

30% of developers say that they're using Linux as their primary development OS on Eclipse

Ubuntu is leading by far with 17%, all the other Linux combined

Deployment numbers are nicer for Linux. 40% are deploying on Linux, 36% on Windows from Eclipse; the Dr. Dobbs survey finds 23% deployment on Linux vs. 57% for Windows-centric developers. In both cases, organizations are deploying more on Linux than ever before.

Subversion is the leader with 52%, and Git/GitHub with 6%. Open source is the clear winner in SCM. Git has crept up from 2% to 6%

Things happening "outside the firewall" are driving technology, which has empowered developers to change corporate IT culture

about 36% of companies don't have a policy regarding deploying and contributing to open source.