Red Hat survey finds we're living in an open-source world

guest · Apr 16, 2019

Red Hat survey finds we're living in an open-source world
Red Hat's new survey of enterprise businesses reveals a world where almost everyone has joined the open-source bandwagon
April 16, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-survey-finds-were-living-in-an-open-source-world/

Some people still insist open source and Linux are fighting a war against the evils of proprietary software. Actually, we won that war years ago. The latest Red Hat State of Enterprise Open Source report, based on 950 interviews with worldwide enterprise IT leaders, makes that crystal clear. Only a mere 1% of enterprises dismiss the importance of open-source software.
OPEN SOURCE AND LINUX NOW RULE THE TECHNOLOGY WORLD
As Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, said in the report: "The question is no longer whether your enterprise should adopt open technologies. The question is when -- and how."

As Red Hat pointed out, in some areas, even the most willfully blind have long recognized open source's importance in areas such as the internet, web standards, and containers, which have been defined by open source.

"Enterprises still use a lot of proprietary software. Change is slow. But proprietary software is waning to the point where its use is expected to be at near parity with open source within two years." This is because proprietary programs have no answer for some open-source innovations.
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The state of enterprise open source: A Red Hat report
(PDF - 1.42 MB): https://www.redhat.com/cms/managed-files/rh-enterprise-open-source-ebook-f16984bf-201904-en_0.pdf

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