Tectonic reports that ‘famously conservative’ IT analyst Gartner has revised its predictions on open source software and now says that by “2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms”.

Gartner’s latest report, The State of Open Source 2008, illustrates that even “users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition”. (PDF download here).

In February 2008 Gartner predicted that 80 percent of software will be built on open source by 2012. In April their prediction was raised to 90%.