80% Of companies with more than 10 employees are using software... - Europa Press

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 10 September. (EUROPA PRESS)-

About 80 percent of the companies in Galicia uses any type of sopen source software, five points higher than in the year 2011, which made it a 75.2 percent, as it contains a report of the National Observatory of the open sources of Cenatic Software on these two exercises.

The increase, according to the regional government in a statement is recorded in the three sectors of activity analyzed by Cenatic, as it is the case of the services sector, which experienced a growth of 7.9 points (75.6 per cent of the companies in 2011 compared to 83.5 per cent of 2012); in the construction (81.1 per cent last year and 82.4 per cent this) and in industry (71 per cent compared to 73.2%).

This increase is due, as highlights the Galician Government, "much" to an "increased use of the free software web browsers", used by 75.1 percent of companies with more than 10 workers in the year 2012, but also to the use of Office applications (56.8 per cent), operating systems (32.2 per cent) and other applications for use outdoors.

The data provided by the Observatory of the national centre of reference of the free Software confirm, as it exposes the Xunta de Galicia, that larger companies are committed to free software, as a strategy to improve productivity and reduce costs.

In this sense, throughout the State, 82.3 percent of companies with more than 250 employees used this type of software during the year 2011.

For companies with less than ten employees, only 45.5 per cent acknowledges that he used some type of software code opened during the past year. The tools used by Galician enterprises were the Internet browsers (36 per cent) and Office applications (29.8 per cent), as it is the case of Mozilla Firefox and Open Office respectively.