What are the main areas where Open Source is making an impact?

Answer 1

Open Source software seems to be mostly making an impact in large companies and in web serving / web applications. Both of these are areas where the company has hired programmers and system administrators who likely already have some experience with Unix, so Linux / BSD are not strange or hard to learn. For servers, like web servers or database servers, the "Enterprise" edition of Windows is not included in the price of new computers, so they have more incentive to explore no cost options like Open Source software.

With consumers, OpenOffice.org does not seem to be doing well at moving people away from Microsoft Office, but Firefox is doing a great job of getting people to switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefox seems to be having a harder time competing with Safari on the Macintosh because Safari has many of the same advanced features as Firefox, and is better integrated into the Mac OS.

Answer 2

It would be easier to ask "What areas are not being impacted by Open Source?" which would be proprietary programming owned and maintained by some company which is primarily involved in data processing such as a financial institution.

Answer 3

a million. Wastage of Manpower available no longer able to be utisised 2.Wastage of working hours by skill of preserving idle. 3. finally leads to morale problems like theft and so on 4. working human beings helping the human beings who produce no longer something to the society and bbecome the load of the society. 5.annoyed young ones entering into into social evils

Answer 4

With people that do not like using Microsoft products since they admit they work with the NSA. Think non-American entities.

Answer 5

Linux
OpenOffice
Apache (The most used web server around)
Gnu

and on and on.