Forrester survey contradicts all other data, suggests no one uses open source

June 10, 2008 (Tuesday) | Open Source

Forrester just released a new survey, one that begs the question: Who paid for this rubbish? I generally like Forrester's work, but this survey flies in the face of every piece of research on open source that I've seen in the last five years...including research from Forrester. Also, as the research itself finds, often its survey respondents are using open source even when they don't know it: Nearly half of those surveyed by Forrester who are using open-source frameworks (e.g., Spring) still claim they are not using open source.