Early results in a study that aims to track open source installations in business has seen Ubuntu and Firefox race to the top of the charts.
The Open Source Census Web site -- a joint venture between a group of vendors, research organisations and open-source advocates -- was launched yesterday in the US, and aims to "paint an accurate portrait of open source usage in the enterprise" according to the groups statement.
The Web site will allow companies and individual users to submit data anonymously on the number and volume of open source installations across their desktops and servers, the results of which will then be published for free on the site. So far, over 91 ,000 installations had been detected.
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