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Each month, we build several demos for customers to try out, free of charge. If you don’t love it after two months, there’s no obligation to buy. We can only build a limited number of demos each month, and they are available on a first-come, first-served basis—so don’t wait to ask; get started now.

Who Uses Open Source Software?

The better question is, who doesn’t? Open Source software is used by governments, businesses in almost every industry, nonprofits, and research institutions worldwide. A complete list would be too long to print here—so here are just a few examples of companies and organizations you’ve heard of that use Open Source software and participate in the community.

The State of Massachusetts declared in September, 2005, that all official government documents must be in OpenDocument format—an Open Source replacement for Microsoft Word.

The Federal Government has been slow to adopt Open Source software, but that hasn’t stopped many states from using it for internal documents and applications, including New York, Rhode Island, Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota.

The U.S. Census Bureau uses MySQL, Linux, Apache, and PHP—all Open Source software—to manage the data from its vast surveys of the U.S. population.

NASA develops its own software and makes its source code available via Open Source. For more information about Open Source software developed by NASA, click here.

Many scientific research centers use Open Source software, including the Sanger Institute, home of the Human Genome Project.

Online news organizations that use Open Source technology include BBC News, the Christian Science Monitor, NBC, the New York Times, Reuters, SlashDot, and the Associated Press.

Open Source software is used by many well-known e-commerce companies including Google, Lycos, eBay, Craigslist, Ticketmaster, Yahoo!, Evite, Friend Finder Network, ClassMates, and CitySearch.