Practically no area of corporate computing remains untouched by the open source Linux movement. Consequently, a big question on a lot of data warehousing and BI practitioners' minds has been: to what extent are companies actually adopting open source Linux for their data warehousing platforms?

A recent survey we conducted in April 2006 that asked 106 end-user organizations (of various sizes based worldwide) about their plans to use open source BI and data warehousing tools helps provide some insight on this issue.