Ian’s Blog on Open Source Marketing

A previous blog entry “The Alfresco Open Source Barometer – Community Counts” announced the Alfresco Open Source Barometer. This allows Alfresco to prioritize the platforms and combinations of platforms, in the modern stack, that Alfresco runs on to best serve the community.

The geographic distribution of community members responding to the survey in this time period is as follows:

The countries in order of size of membership are:

1. US
2. France
3. Spain
4. Germany
5. Italy
6. United Kingdom

Interestingly when you also analyze visitors to our website it is as follows:

1. US
2. France
3. Germany
4. United Kingdom
5. Spain
6. Italy

This is an interesting distribution as traditionally enterprise software gains momentum in the U.S., crosses the Atlantic to form a beachhead in the U.K. and then moves on to Germany and France. The survey found that the U.S. is leading open source adoption globally. We believe the Global 2000 is seeking innovation and better value for their technology investments whereas in Europe open source adoption is often driven by governments seeking better value for their citizens. The research also showed that the U.K. lags behind in the adoption of open source suggesting less government emphasis compared with other European countries such as France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

A detailed report can be accessed at: http://Opensourcebarometer.org

The Community can be accessed at: http://www.alfresco.com/community/register/?source=community

This entry was posted on Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Open Source, Open Source Barometer, Uk Government. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.