2014 Future of Open Source Study; presented via Webinar with panel moderation from North Bridge and panelists:
Lou Shipley, CEO at Black Duck Software (@loushipley)
Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (@jhammond) Guy Martin, Senior Open Source Strategist at Samsung Research America (@guyma) Kerrin Perniciaro, Manager of IT Communications & Web Strategy in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at Stony Brook University (@SBUDoIT) Brian Gentile, Chairman and CEO of Jaspersoft (@BrianG_Jasper)
A record-breaking 1,240 industry influencers took the 2014 survey, answering questions about OSS trends, opportunities, key drivers of open source adoption, community engagement, and the business problems OSS solves now and in the future. study highlight this democratization and proliferation of open source in three main areas: new people, new technologies, and new economics.
Open source is enjoying a proliferation that starts with a growing number of new developers at the grass roots. Many then go on to join enterprises who themselves are engaging in open source projects. Further news in the survey shows enterprises now organizing to contribute back more actively; as they realize the importance of open source innovation to jumpstart careers and kickstart projects. As our survey continues to show open source is consuming the software world as the inherent quality, functionality, and increasingly ease of deployment creates a powerful gravitational pull on people and industries. This self-reinforcing, virtuous cycle will result in the most exciting applications having an open source foundation. Which is why many of the leading technology areas such as cloud, big data, content management and mobile are treating open source as their 'foundational platform. Further, more new areas like the Internet of Things, which requires interoperability and extensibility, can only be met by open source initiatives, hence the emergence of new communities such as the AllSeen Alliance, according to the North Bridge Press Release.