Gartner: more than half of firms use open source

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Analyst's figures reveal use of proprietary software is declining

More than half of end users have incorporated open-source software (OSS) into their IT strategy, according to figures from Gartner. The analyst quizzed 547 IT chiefs and found that 22 per cent d...

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