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This week, Global Graphics published a survey of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) at public sector organizations and commercial companies that shows three quarters (76%) of large organizations currently use free software across their enterprise. And due to tight IT budgets, over half (51%) say they intend to deploy even more free software in 2010. Over half (54%) said they already use more than 10 different free software products.

Click here to view the results: http://www.globalgraphics.com/freesoftware

The survey is based on interviews with 400 CIOs from organizations with over 1000 employees across the US (300 CIOs) and the UK (100 CIOs).

The purpose of using free software is both to save on existing spend and to add new functionality. As an example of the former, 38% of the CIOs interviewed said they wanted to replace Adobe Acrobat with free software (a role gDoc Creator fulfills) while 24% are looking for a no-cost alternative to the Microsoft Office suite.

The other key driver for using free software, cited by 47% of CIOs, is to complement existing desktop applications and extend functionality to users that can’t be provided using paid-for software. Again, that’s something that gDoc Fusion (at a fraction of the cost of Adobe Acrobat) or free-to- use gDoc Creator can deliver.

Clearly enterprise IT is changing: free software is found extensively inside organizations, and new generations of employees now expect business applications to work quickly and easily.

With gDoc Creator we address both these trends. Download them here to see if we’ve succeeded!