Open source not ready for higher education?

Posted by tadelste on Mar 6, 2006 11:45 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Ryan Paul
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In reality, the report itself found that open source software is being used on a massive scale by universities. According to the study results, 57 percent of all American higher education institutions are using open source software products somewhere within their infrastructure. 53 percent of all American higher education institutions use Apache, 51 percent use Linux, 38 percent use MySQL, and 35 percent use Firefox. Those numbers clearly show that open source software is widely used by American universities.

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