5 Out Of 6 Developers Are Using Open Source

ZDNet  reports on a Forrester survey that finds 5 out of 6 developers are using or deploying open source.

http://www.zdnet.com/five-out-of-six-developers-now-using-or-deploying-open-source-7000008499/?s_cid=rSINGLE

In the survey they found that 7% of developers are using open source software tools such as Pentaho.

The United States Department of Labor state that, in 2010, there were 913,100 software developers in the USA alone.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/Software-developers.htm

7% of 913,100 means about 64,000 developers using open source business intelligence software. Nice.