An interesting article has been published on the Inside Higher Education which examines a report
published by IMS about open source software adoption in higher
education. The article states that while interest in open source
software is increasing, “it’s not quite ready for prime time.”

The article also looks at Sakai and other Open Source VLE systems. The report published by IMS found that open source software is being
used on a massive scale by universities. According to the study
results, 57 percent of all American higher education institutions are
using open source software products somewhere within their
infrastructure. 53 percent of all American higher education
institutions use Apache, 51 percent use Linux, 38 percent use MySQL,
and 35 percent use Firefox. Those numbers clearly show that open source
software is widely used by American universities.

Read the full article from Inside Higher Education here.

Read the IMS report entitled  “Best Practices in Open Source in Higher Education Study - The State of Open Source Software”