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Austria

EDRIX Score

7.38

Tier

Leader

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 3.70 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 6.77 / 10
Private sector resilience 9.06 / 10
Public sector resilience 10.00 / 10

Raw metrics

The underlying values before min-max normalization across the EU27.

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 3.06
Linux share on desktops and laptops 4.96%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 20.47%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.582
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 1.000

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Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Austria slips from first to third at 7.38, with a score almost unchanged since June (7.43): Germany and Finland moved past it. Austria keeps a perfect 10 on the public-sector pillar (all three official sites hosted, mailed and resolved in Austria) and the fourth-best private-sector score (9.06; the .at sample rates 0.58). Grassroots adoption is solid (6.77, 4th), with a 20.47% sovereign browser share, third in the EU. The pillar holding Austria back is developer density (3.06, 13th).

Strengths

  • Public sector (perfect 10). www.bundespraesident.at (ACONET), www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at and www.wien.gv.at (Magistrat der Stadt Wien) are fully EU-operated.
  • Private-sector hosting (9.06, 4th). 61% of 473 measured .at domains are EU-hosted, led by Hetzner, ACONET and T-Mobile Austria.
  • Sovereign browser share of 20.47%, third in the EU27.

Weaknesses

  • Developer density (3.06, 13th).
  • Email. Half of the measured .at domains route email through non-EU providers; Cloudflare (19%) leads the non-EU web hosts.

Outlook

The top three are within 0.21 point. Austria's private-sector pillar lost 0.19 this quarter; that pillar, renewed every quarter from the most-visited .at sites, will decide whether Austria regains first place.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Austria was an "emerging" player with a solid strategic and security agenda but less-developed open-source software policies.

2024 progression

Austria has taken steps to embrace OSS, with the 2022 establishment of an open source working group and the 2023 Digital Austria Act. A key move is the collaboration with Germany on the OpenDesk initiative.

Historical reference

OSOR Fact Sheet (PDF, 2024) — the country-level Open Source policy report used by the retired Public Policy pillar in EDRIX 1.0.