The growing influence and status of developers mean that most enterprises now acknowledge the necessity of having an open source offering and strategy.Īs OSS has grown in recognition and credibility, it has also expanded its footprint within organizations and moved up the IT stack. These economic events reflect a surging grassroots activity: in 2019 alone, over 1.3 million first-time contributors joined the open source community and 30% of all projects on GitHub were created.Īs we have written previously, the growth of these companies reflects multiple factors driving enterprise adoption of OSS: notably advantages relating to Cost, Community, and Control. Following the acquisitions of Red Hat and GitHub, IPOs of Elastic, Cloudera, and MongoDB, and large funding rounds of many more open source-based companies, that has changed decisively. Not long ago it was highly contrarian to believe that a multi-billion dollar company could be built with open source at its core. The last few years have marked a coming-of-age for open source software (OSS), as the attitude of proprietary software vendors has shifted, major IPOs and acquisitions have underscored commercial potential, and developer communities have continued to expand well beyond traditional tech hubs. Open Source leaders share their insights and key tips
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