This is critical to reducing potential security, legal, and operational risks while allowing companies to reap the full benefits OSS provides. Why did he say this even as corporate open source adoption and participation across industries, and companies of all sizes, has reached an all-time high? If we look at the survey results from C-level executives and high-level IT staffers, it all becomes clear. Looking ahead, those who took the survey saw cloud computing 39 percent , big data 35 percent , operating systems 33 percent , and the Internet of Things 31 percent being impacted by OSS in the next years.
IT Innovation for Small Businesses. Read More. These numbers strike me as low. The cloud will be OSS. Before we get too excited about proclaiming OSS has won and the wicked witch of proprietary software is dead, we must take into account that companies still lack OSS formal management policies.
The survey also found:. All that is worrisome, but it's the last one that I find the most troubling. Companies are clearly indulging in magical thinking if they believe that OSS is free of security problems.
Yes, it's great that OSS is becoming the enterprise's favorite kind of software. It's nice to know that businesses have finally seen the value in the open-source software development model I saw decades ago, but OSS is like any other tool. If you use it badly, it will end up hurting you. Developers are in short supply. Which is likely why open source's popularity is booming with a few holdouts. Cost savings may be only part of open source's allure, but it's still a big part, no matter what size the organization.
They focused on content, not building an operating system or a testing framework. Indeed, in some cases, open source is helping to bring back custom development of applications, an option that has decreased in popularity in the past 10 years or so as the use of commercial applications and software-as-a-service offerings gained ground.
Taking on some custom development work in order to save money appealed to Carestream Health. Previous Article: When to open-source and when not to open-source If you're a developer and have no intentions of every getting paid for writing code, then deciding between open-sourcing your software or not can be a simple decision.
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