When a Forrester Research representative emailed with the following survey highlights, I was more than a little surprised:

"Forrester released data today analyzing trend lines in enterprise open source usage in 2007. Among the key findings:

* Seventy percent of decision-makers responded that they don't have interest or have no plans to adopt open source software;
* Only 23 percent of respondents said expanding their use of open source software was a priority;
* Security is the main concern around adopting open source software. Eighty-eight percent of respondents said it was an important or very important concern."

The data is from 1,017 decision makers in North America & Europe. The survey was conducted in Q3 2007.

But here are two data points that puts the 70% "not using or don't have plans to use" in perspective:

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