The Open Source Census: This Data is Really Cool
Cool story: I just got out of a meeting with a VC who is a potential investor in OpenLogic. At one point during the meeting, he asked about adoption of open source application frameworks — specifically Struts and Spring. I pulled up the web site for The Open Source Census, went to the All Packages by Name report and found out that Spring had been found on 8% of the machines scanned so far and Struts on 16%. The VC's mouth dropped open. He started staring at the screen and writing all sorts of numbers down in his notebook.
This is the promise of The Open Source Census. I know we've got a ways to go to collect more data, but the data makes people salivate. And it's only going to get better. Now that is cool.
