A recent Forrester survey sheds new light on the true state of open source usage in the region, with only 18% of firms surveyed using Linux in production and just 11% considering its use over the next 12 months.

The news is worse for other open source software, such as JBoss or MySQL, with only 12% production use and a mere 4% considering adoption in 2006.

Forrester expects adoption rates to remain low as organisations continue to lean on traditional software vendor models in the absence of specific open source policies covering more than simply procurement.