Roughly 26 years after Linux pushed open source into mainstream enterprise adoption, we’re still debating how big a role open source should play — at least, some people are.
Developers aren’t in that group: Open source has become part of the “furniture” for them, essential to data infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, and so on), mobile (Android), operations (Docker, Kubernetes), machine learning (TensorFlow, Mahout), and more.
The PR world, however, didn’t get the memo. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, sent out a note this past week arguing that companies that “don’t jump on the open source bandwagon” risk being “left behind.” SAS’s PR team, by contrast, put out a report offering helpful guidelines: Make sure your software portfolio contains no more than 40 percent open source or face potential exposure to all sorts of security, cost, and other problems.
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