Analyst Firm Gets It Half-Right:

"IDC, a well-known analyst firm (and, in the interest of full disclosure, a sister firm of CIO's publisher, CXO Media), has just released a study on the topic of open source, concluding that open source represents "the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s."

IDC surveyed 5000 developers in 116 countries and discovered that open source is used by 71% of them and -- perhaps more surprisingly -- is used in 54% of their production environments."