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Dries has some interesting points there on the massive uptake of Open Source in the Enterprise and as well, the introduction of cloud computing becoming a transformation agenda more than a technology change.

http://buytaert.net/open-source-in-the-enterprise-and-in-the-cloud

Take a look.

Just sharing some soundbites around Open Source Deployments. The usual candidates with high revenue and enterprise placements are RedHat Products (Linux and Java) and MySQL.

The adoption of business like application is also interesting. While British Telecom adoption of an open source ERP platform seem premature, I like to point out these numbers below given by the associated web sites.

For References Jaspersoft offers a Business Intelleginece Platforms, Alfresco a full featured Enterprise Content and Document Management System with Collobartion Tools (compliant to Microsoft SharePoint Protocol), SugarCRM a full featured CRM solution with PABX integration and Zimbra a web based E-Mail and Groupware Solution.

The US Department of Defense has publish ed there views on adopting Free and Open Source.

The Software Development and Java Enterprise Edition stack is mainly focused from using Open Source products, such as JBOSS and TOMCAT. We can see Open Source adoption throughout the DoD in managing application delivery, data centre infrastrucutre and management, security, and control.

Please review the strategic guideline and the adopted open source projects here: http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/

Based on a quick survey amongst 10 large enterprises, it was confirmed that only 2 have no open source.

See results here: http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/77598/xlbvx