Some of the tidbits include the finding that 35% of those surveyed indicated they are already using open source software on desktop PC's. I'm guessing this is probably being driven mostly by Firefox, OpenOffice, The Gimp, and potentially Thunderbird. I'm trying to think about what other F/OSS projects are ported over to Windows that are probably being adopted heavily.

However, I guess I was in a minority of only 12% of the respondents whose PC's are running or will run Linux. Interestingly, they note a Gartner study that found only 1.5% of PC's worldwide are running Linux. I have to conclude that either the "business-technology professionals" that were part of the survey population are way ahead in terms of Linux adoption or Gartner's study has missed the boat. jmo, but I find it hard to believe Linux only has 1.5% worldwide - U.S. maybe I can believe that, but not worldwide.

Finally, I noted that fully two-thirds reported the SCO lawsuits are not impacting their decisions regarding deployment of F/OSS and only 9% have delayed anything thanks to SCO.

They also had another article about Linux security (Is Linux Next?) that I found rather underwhelming. Bottom line - all operating systems contain vulnerabilities. Nothing new there. They noted that in the survey they conducted, only 10% found security to be a "challenge" when deploying Linux.

At the end, the author writes:

They'll continue to struggle with the imperfect software and the knowledge that the cost of imperfection can be quite high.