Open Mind

This document summarizes the results of a national survey on open source software business in Finland conducted in 2008. The survey gathered responses from 660 software companies representing 88% of the Finnish software industry. Key findings include that 75% of responding companies use open source software, and nearly half have open source components in their product offerings. The most common open source business model is building and maintaining solutions based on open source components. Open source usage was found to be common across both small and large companies.