British survey experts Survey Interactive have released reports showing that a nice 42% of businesses surveyed were currently using open source software on their computers, where an additional 22% were looking to do so some time soon but had not yet taken action, while the remainder were still skeptical about its overall use and functionality up against proprietary software.

The adoption rate is still very slow in the United States and the United Kingdom, and in comparison to France and Germany who are up in the 65-70% adoption rate, and even more dramatically still behind China who have some 80% of companies using open source applications.

"The proportion of UK respondents who feel that the benefits of open source software outweigh the inhibitors has decreased this year," read the report. "Significantly, the UK continues to demonstrate a degree of reticence towards open source adoption, with almost a quarter still monitoring developments but not yet evaluating."