Open Source Softwaremarket has been analyzed by utilizing the best combination of secondary sources and in-house methodology along with a unique blend of primary insights. The real-time assessment of the Open Source Software market is an integral part of our market sizing and forecasting methodology, wherein our industry experts and team of primary participants helped in compiling the best quality with realistic parametric estimations.

In4Researchs latest market research report on theOpen Source Software market, with the help of a complete viewpoint, provides readers with an estimation of the global market landscape. This report on the Open Source Software market analyzes the scenario for the period of 2020 to 2026, wherein, 2019 is the base year. This report enables readers to make important decisions regarding their business, with the help of a variety of information enclosed in the study.

This report on the Open Source Software market also provides data on the developments made by important key companies and stakeholders in the market, along with competitive intelligence. The report also covers an understanding of strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities, along with the market trends and restraints in the landscape.

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Analysis of COVID-19 Impact & Post Pandemic Opportunities in Open Source Software Market:The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought along a global recession, which has impacted several industries. Along with this impact COVID Pandemic has also generated few new business opportunities for Open Source Software market. Overall competitive landscape and market dynamics of Open Source Software has been disrupted due to this pandemic. All these disruptions and impacts has been analysed quantifiably in this report, which is backed by market trends, events and revenue shift analysis. COVID impact analysis also covers strategic adjustments for Tier 1, 2 and 3 players of Open Source Software market.

Table of Content: Global Open Source Software Market

Chapter 1. Research Objective1.1 Objective, Definition & Scope1.2 Methodology1.2.1 Primary Research1.2.2 Secondary Research1.2.3 Market Forecast Estimation & Approach1.2.4 Assumptions & Assessments1.3 Insights and Growth Relevancy Mapping1.3.1 FABRIC Platform1.4 Data mining & efficiency

Chapter 2. Executive Summary2.1 Open Source Software Market Overview2.2 Interconnectivity & Related markets2.3 Ecosystem Map2.4 Open Source Software Market Business Segmentation2.5 Open Source Software Market Geographic Segmentation2.6 Competition Outlook2.7 Key Statistics

Chapter 3. Strategic Analysis3.1 Open Source Software Market Revenue Opportunities3.2 Cost Optimization3.3 Covid19 aftermath Analyst view3.4 Open Source Software Market Digital Transformation

Chapter 4. Market Dynamics4.1 DROC4.1.1 Drivers4.1.2 Restraints4.1.3 Opportunities4.1.4 Challenges4.2 PEST Analysis4.2.1 Political4.2.2 Economic4.2.3 Social4.2.4 Technological4.3 Market Impacting Trends4.3.1 Positive Impact Trends4.3.2 Adverse Impact Trends4.4 Porters 5-force Analysis4.5 Market News By Segments4.5.1 Organic News4.5.2 Inorganic News

Chapter 5. Segmentation & Statistics5.1 Segmentation Overview5.2 Demand Forecast & Market Sizing

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Open Source Software Market By Applications, Types, New Technology Opportunity Analysis And Forecast: 2020 2026 - Cheshire Media

While you're surfing the web, you ought to thank Jacob Thornton for making it so pretty.

He's a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software that the pros use to make their sites look spiffy. If you've ever noticed that a lot of websites have the same big chunky buttons, or the same clean forms, that's likely because an estimated one-fifth of all websites on the planet use Bootstrap.

One reason for its spread is that Thornton and Otto made Bootstrap open source. Anyone can use it without permission, and anyone can tweak it and improve it. Thornton didn't get a salary for making Bootstrap. When he and Otto first released it, back in 2010, they had day jobs working for Twitter. But both were propelled by classic open source motivations: It was a cool challenge, it burnished their reputations, and it felt neat to help people. Plus, watching it surge in popularityGreen Day's website used it, as did Barack Obama's White Housewas thrilling.

But open source success, Thornton quickly found, has a dark side. He felt inundated. Countless people wrote him and Otto every week with bug reports, demands for new features, questions, praise. Thornton would finish his day job and then spend four or five hours every night frantically working on Bootstrapmanaging queries, writing new code. I couldn't grab dinner with someone after work, he says, because he felt like he'd be letting users down: I shouldn't be out enjoying myself. I should be working on Bootstrap!

The feeling that I had was guilt, he says. He kept at it, and nine years later he and Otto are still heading up Bootstrap, along with a small group of core contributors. But the stress has been bad enough that he often thought of bailing.

When the open source concept emerged in the '90s, it was conceived as a bold new form of communal labor: digital barn raisings. If you made your code open source, dozens or even hundreds of programmers would chip in to improve it. Many hands would make light work. Everyone would feel ownership.

Making and remaking code requires high-level synthesiswhich, as it turns out, is hard to break into little pieces.

Now, it's true that open source has, overall, been a wild success. Every startup, when creating its own software services or products, relies on open source software from folks like Thornton: open source web-server code, open source neural-net code. But, with the exception of some big projectslike Linuxthe labor involved isn't particularly communal. Most are like Bootstrap, where the majority of the work landed on a tiny team of people.

Recently, Nadia Eghbalthe head of writer experience at the email newsletter platform Substackpublished Working in Public, a fascinating book for which she spoke to hundreds of open source coders. She pinpointed the change I'm describing here. No matter how hard the programmers worked, most still felt underwater in some shape or form, Eghbal told me.

Why didn't the barn-raising model pan out? As Eghbal notes, it's partly that the random folks who pitch in make only very small contributions, like fixing a bug. Making and remaking code requires a lot of high-level synthesiswhich, as it turns out, is hard to break into little pieces. It lives best in the heads of a small number of people.

Yet those poor top-level coders still need to respond to the smaller contributions (to say nothing of requests for help or reams of abuse). Their burdens, Eghbal realized, felt like those of YouTubers or Instagram influencers who feel overwhelmed by their ardent fan basesbut without the huge, ad-based remuneration.

Sometimes open source coders simply walk away: Let someone else deal with this crap. Studies suggest that about 9.5 percent of all open source code is abandoned, and a quarter is probably close to being so. This can be dangerous: If code isn't regularly updated, it risks causing havoc if someone later relies on it. Worse, abandoned code can be hijacked for ill use. Two years ago, the pseudonymous coder right9ctrl took over a piece of open source code that was used by bitcoin firmsand then rewrote it to try to steal cryptocurrency.

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DURHAM, N.C. , Nov. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating its 15th year protecting the Open Source Software (OSS) community from patent risk. OINs efforts have enabled businesses and organizations to confidently invest their resources to develop, integrate and use OSS, safeguarding them from patent risk in core Linux and adjacent OSS technologies.

Freedom to participate in open source projects and adopt Linux and other open source code has been enabled through broad based participation in the OIN cross-license, which has become a litmus test for authenticity in the open source community, according to Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network.Joining the OIN community demonstrates an explicit recognition among signatories of a commitment to open source technologies and the set of norms required around the appropriate use of patents in an increasingly open source-centric world. Companies that do not sign the OIN license and refuse to participate in this rapidly growing community are explicitly or implicitly reserving the right to use their patents to litigate on core Linux and OSS functionality.

Since its founding in 2005, powered by the contributions of many individuals and organizations, OIN has grown to be the largest patent non-aggression community in history with over 3,300 participants. Over the past 15 years, OINs community has experienced a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for licensees of more than 50%, and the OIN community in total now owns more than 2.6 million patents and applications. In addition, OIN provides royalty-free access to its strategic portfolio of more than 1,300 worldwide patents and applications.

The scope of patent non-aggression between OIN community members is defined by OINs Linux System definition. It has evolved to include nearly 3,400 software packages, which is three times that which was covered at its launch in 2005. This ensures freedom of action in global open source projects and technology platforms including Linux, Python, GNOME, SUSE, X.org, Perl, Fedora, Android, Hyperledger, Open Stack, Apache, Avro, Kafka, Spark and Hadoop; Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), Robot Operating System (ROS), KDE Frameworks, Eclipse Paho and Mosquito, among many others.

In addition to its historic focus of limiting operating companies antagonistic to Linux and OSS from using patents to slow or stall OSS development, OIN has worked with numerous community members to either eradicate patent aggressors lawsuits or enable members to settle disputes cost effectively. As patent risk has evolved to include patent assertion entities (PAEs), OIN has shifted a portion of its focus and partnered with IBM, The Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to fund the first anti-PAE program Unified Patents Open Source Zone designed specifically to limit the effect of PAE aggression directed at the open source community.

OINs community explicitly supports patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent open source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one another on a royalty-free basis. Patents owned by OIN are similarly licensed royalty-free to any organization that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System. The OIN license can be signed online at http://www.j-oin.net/.

Open Invention Network is a unique organization. For 15 years, it has protected the Linux and open source community from patent aggression, while fostering a community that understands that value of shared technological development, said Tim Kowalski, Chairman of Open Invention Network. It has been an honor to have worked with the OIN team, and fellow OIN Board members, to plan and implement the strategic initiatives that have provided protection for open source.

Google has been a proud member of OIN since joining the community in 2007. Linux and adjacent open source software power the cloud-based services of today and tomorrow, said Chris DiBona, Director of Open Source at Google. Throughout, OIN has been there to ensure that open source remains safe for users, consumers, and developers alike to consume and upon which to build.

Since its inception 15 years ago, OIN has provided unprecedented protection to enable the incredible growth and adoption of Linux and other related open source software around the world, said Ken King, General Manager, OpenPower at IBM. As the OIN community has grown to over 3,000 members and the Linux definition has matured, that protection has only grown stronger. IBM and Red Hat have been two of the leading proponents and drivers of Linux and open source software for over 20 years and have been founding members of OIN since its inception. Today, IBM and Red Hat continue to share with OIN a deep and unwavering commitment to scale Linux and open source innovation providing flexibility, choice and leadership for the industry.

Global adoption of Linux and other open source technologies is an irreversible trend. For the last fifteen years, they have transformed almost every industry, said Hirotake Konda, Deputy General Manager of IP Management Division and Department Manager of Licensing Department of NEC, and Jackson Chen, Senior Associate General Counsel of NECAM. By sharing innovation, Linux and open source capabilities have soared, application interoperability is unprecedented, connectivity is virtually everywhere, while business and consumer productivity are at all-time highs. By blocking patent aggression in open source, OIN has enabled safer investments in product development and helped to enable these innovations.

Philips is proud to be a founder of the Open Invention Network. Over the years, OSS has been an important building block for many of our businesses, and is increasingly important for the medical and health tech industries. OSS enables faster development of monitoring, imaging, diagnostic, and informatic platforms, while driving down costs, said Jako Eleveld, Head of IP Licensing of Royal Philips. With more than 3,300 community members, OIN is ensuring that OSS innovation continues its rapid pace, in a safe environment enabled by licensing.

At the time of OINs founding, open source was nascent, and most software was built in silos. During the past 15 years, we have been pleased to watch the OIN community grow from 6 members to more than 3300, said Peter Toto, Senior VP, IP Counsel at Sony Corporation of America. The OIN communitys powerful cross license has enabled businesses to safely develop and sell innovative new systems and platforms that have revolutionized the way the world conducts business.

As a global leader in open source, SUSE enables innovation from the largest data centers in the world to cloud environments, and our technology is embedded in every day devices like cars, points of sale, and MRIs. Open source infrastructure is the power behind the cloud and digital transformation, and our customers rely on us for missioncritical business outcomes and for innovation, said Thomas Di Giacomo, president of engineering and innovation at SUSE. As a leader in bringing open source solutions to enterprises, including enterprise Linux, we see firsthand why Linux is the number one platform for cloud, embedded devices and high-speed containers at the edge. Open source is one of the fastest growing markets in the industry, in part, due to the protection afforded by the OIN, which we are a proud active member for years, and its patent non-aggression community.

Over its history, the automotive industry has undergone periods of significant innovation. We are now undergoing a fundamental shift in the way automotive platforms are used by consumers and businesses. Automotive Grade Linux and other OSS projects are helping the industry rapidly transform. By protecting them from patent risk, OIN has enabled automotive manufacturers to effectively integrate new kinds of software-based technologies into cars. said Yosuke Iida, General Manager of Intellectual Property Division at Toyota.

About Open Invention NetworkOpen Invention Network (OIN) is the largest patent non-aggression community in history and supports freedom of action in Linux as a key element of open source software (OSS). Patent non-aggression in core technologies is a cultural norm within OSS, so that the litmus test for authentic behavior in the OSS community includes OIN membership. Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE, and Toyota, OIN has more than 3,300 community members and owns more than 1,300 global patents and applications. The OIN patent license and member cross-licenses are available royalty-free to any party that joins the OIN community.

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Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic has impacted all over industries across the globe, and Open Source Software market is one of them. As the global market heads towards major recession, we are at In4Research, has published a brand-new latest research report which fully studies the impact of COVID-19 crisis on Open Source Software Industry and suggests possible actions to curtail them.Open Source Software Market report covers an in-depth analysis of the Open Source Software industry including statistical, quantitative, qualitative data points with emphasis on the market dynamics including the drivers, opportunities & restraints, market size, industry status and forecast, competition landscape and growth & revenue opportunities after COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, this Open Source Software market research report covers both the global and regional markets with a detailed overview of the markets complete growth forecast. This research also sheds light on the markets wide-ranging competitive environment. The study also includes a dashboard overview of top businesses in both historical and current contexts, covering their active marketing strategies, recent developments & trends, and market contribution.

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The research report includes specific segments by Type and by Application. Each type provides information about the production during the forecast period of 2019 to 2026. The application segment also provides consumption during the forecast period of 2019 to 2026. Understanding the segments helps in identifying the importance of different factors that aid market growth.

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There is coverage of market dynamics at the country level in the respective regional segments. The report comprises competitive analysis with a focus on key players and participants of the Open Source Software market covering in-depth data related to the competitive landscape, positioning, company profiles, key strategies adopted and product-profiling with a focus on market growth and potential.

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The report also contains the effect of the ongoing worldwide pandemic, i.e., COVID-19, on the Open Source Software Market and what the future holds for it. It offers an analysis of the impacts of the epidemic on the international market. The epidemic has immediately interrupted the requirement and supply series. The Open Source Software Market report also assesses the economic effect on firms and monetary markets. Futuristic Reports has accumulated advice from several delegates of this business and has engaged from the secondary and primary research to extend the customers with strategies and data to combat industry struggles throughout and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Open Source Software Market: Technological Advancement & Growth Analysis with Forecast to 2026 - The Daily Philadelphian

GitHub Inc., an open-source code repository and subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., today announced an expansion of the GitHub Archive Programby which the company sought to preserve open-source software for future generations in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault in Svalbard, Norway.

This new expansion will see the Greatest Hits of GitHub, a collection of the most popular code repositories, printed on piqlFilm reels and stored in aesthetically pleasing 3D printed boxes. Alongside thesegreatesthits, a random sample of roughly 5,000 other repositories will also be includedto give future historians a better understanding of the gamut of projects built by todays developers.

According to GitHub, these 17,000 open-source repositories are the foundation of technology used today across the globe. To ensure the accessibility of these key projects, per the Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe principle, the company created four sets.

The chosen locations are the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in England, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (a.k.a. the Library of Alexandria, Egypt), and the Stanford Libraries in California. Additionally, the fourth box will be preserved and displayed at GitHub headquarters.

Preservation of knowledge is of enormous importance to not only us at the Bodleian Libraries but to society as a whole, said Richard Ovenden, the Bodleys librarian. In this digital age, we must constantly seek new ways of preserving critical information, such as code, Librarians and archivists, the custodians of the past, are also the advance-guards of the future.

As one of the oldest libraries in Europe, the Bodleian Library has been amassing and protecting human knowledge for centuries and its archives include codicils over thousands of years old. It is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library, boasting over 12 million items.

Our community has developed open approaches to software development, data practices, and scholarly communication for years, consequently, it feels like the Bodleian Libraries is a perfect partner with GitHub and the other partner libraries around the world to ensure the preservation of open source software, Ovenden said.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Africas pre-eminent library and modern-day successor to the legendary Library of Alexandria, has become the second location for the GitHub Archive. It is also a center for knowledge, as well as dialogue, learning and understanding among cultures.

Since its launch as the New Library of Alexandria in 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has been committed to the preservation of heritage for future generations, Dr. Mostafa El Feki, director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, said. To that end, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina developed several initiatives including web archiving, book digitization and 3D artifact digitization.

The Stanford Libraries, 24 in all, at Stanford University sit squarely in the heart of Silicon Valley.The GitHub Archive Program is an excellent partnership model among technology companies, libraries, and other institutions dedicated to the long-term preservation of open source software, said Michael Keller, vice provost and university librarian for Stanford Libraries. Todays announcement is a creative way to encourage others to ensure their history, innovations and code are well conserved for future generations.

The reels themselves will be stored in beautifully printed boxes commissioned from Alex Maki-Jokela, an artist and engineer whose work blends traditional aesthetics with 3D printing and AI-generated art.

I wanted to create something that was aesthetically beautiful, and that paid homage to the spirit of open-source software and to the generations of science and engineering that open-source software rests upon, said Maki-Jokela, who documented the journey on Medium.

The software and 3D printing tools techniques I used to create the cases are close to the edges of whats available today, Maki-Jokela added, and a lot of the technical symbolism reflects our species advances in engineering of the past hundred years. But underneath the artwork, I sought to express stories that are old as time and that will still be true hundreds of years from now, even as the forms of technology change.

GitHub has further information on the Arctic Code Vault, its Greatest Hits archive and more details at its Archive Program web portal.

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Historians and future generations of developers will be able to unearth early lines of open source Linux, Ruby, or Python code buried 250 feet under the earths permafrost layer and, now, in three historic libraries in Oxford, Egypt, and California, thanks to GitHubs expanding Archive Program.

Announced last year at the code management companys Universe event, the GitHub Archive Program aims to preserve open source software in much the same way we do works of art, design, or literature. By printing historically relevant open source repositories onto reels of piqlFilm (digital photosensitive archival film), GitHub which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018hopes to preserve the open source software movement for future generations.

This program includes the storage of a code archive in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway just one mile away from the famous Global Seed Vault by storing 186 reels of piqlFilm and 21TB of repository data in a decommissioned coal mine 250 meters deep in the permafrost this summer.

Run in partnership with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, and Microsoft Research, the program looks to preserve both warm and cold versions of the code to ensure multiple copies and formats of the software are preserved, also known as the LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) approach by archivists .

Now, the project is expanding by donating reels of hardened microfilm to the 400-year-old Bodleian Library at Oxford University in England; the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, and the Stanford Libraries in California; as well as storing a copy in the library at GitHubs headquarters in San Francisco.

GitHub is preserving its most popular repositories by the number of stars given by the community, including projects like Linux and Android and programming languages like Ruby and Go. The company is also preserving 5,000 repositories picked at random.

The idea behind that is when you go back in history we want to preserve the work of individual developers, students, and small, lesser known developers and their open source projects, Thomas Dohmke, VP of strategic programs at GitHub told InfoWorld.

By its very nature, open source software is not a static thing to be preserved, it is collaborative and always in flux. The intention is not to store copies that can be booted and run in the future, although that may be possible. Instead, the idea is to preserve a moment in time, where open source became the premier mode of software development, and chart the cultural significance of that movement.

A platform like GitHub can paint a picture of a broad spread of the software developer community across the globe at a moment in time, Richard Ovenden, the Bodleys librarian and president of the Digital Preservation Coalition, told InfoWorld.

We think it is worth preserving software and how people worked together across the world to contribute and review source code. There is something culturally there which is worth preserving, GitHubs Dohmke added.

The archive is being built for two types of people, according to Dohmke, historians and future software developers curious about how software was developed during this era.

Each donation is specially encased using a combination of 3D printing and AI-generated art by the engineer and artist Alex Maki-Jokela. You can read more about his work on Medium.

All archived code will also include technical guides to QR decoding, file formats, character encodings, and other critical metadata so that future developers can decode it.Storage is not the same thing as preservation, you have to do other things, Ovenden said.

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Once upon a time, packaged software was all we knew. That was the late 60s and early 70s when the concept of Open Source hadnt yet been birthed. The norm for programmers was to be hired to write code for corporations or sell code to companies or consumers.

To be sure, open source software itself already existed but the term had not yet been coined. Computers and software were a new thing and enthusiasts would meet up and write code for fun, a scenario not unlike that of the recent gatherings and meetups of blockchain technology enthusiasts.

Meanwhile, development of software based on the sharing and collaborative improvement of software source code gained more popularity over time (in large part as a protest against proprietary software giants like Microsoft) and in the late 1990s, gained mainstream recognition that led to the coining of the Open Source label.

Basically, the term Open Source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents or content. This means any developer or programmer can contribute to the development of an open source project, which is an amazing way of involving global talents and communities to collaborate and produce high quality programs.

Last month when smart advertising token SaTT announced its decision to get on the open source route, it was precisely to take advantage of this aspect of Open Source. According to SaTT:

It has always been clear to us that a blockchain project, decentralized by definition, cannot be constrained by a centralized environment [SaTT aims to be] a project that can benefit from community contributions and exceed our vision and know-how, establishing ourselves as a universal reference.

Open Source does offer advantages when compared to Proprietary Development, such as the backing and involvement of global talents and communities as mentioned; enhanced levels of creative freedom for developers and platform customization to the end user; open source projects with vibrant communities increase their chances of finding and fixing bugs, amongst the reasons to choose open source development.

Indeed, SaTT is in good company taking the Open Source route. Some of the best known and most successful blockchain projects are open source.

Ethereum immediately springs to mind of course, as the open source blockchain platform on which smart contracts run. Proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin who has since become one of the most influential voices in Blockchain, the distributed public blockchain network enables developers to build and deploy next-generation decentralised apps easily.

Currently, the Ethereum platform is depending on open source development for a widely anticipated major upgrade to Ethereum 2.0. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is one of the largest open-source blockchain initiatives representing a wide variety of business sectors which includes technology, healthcare, banking, energy, government, pharmaceuticals and many more.

Hyperledger Fabric, the enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger framework that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy; Solidity, the contract-oriented programming language; MetaMask, one of the most downloaded blockchain browser extensions which equips you with all you need to manage digital assets are just a handful of the numerous open source blockchain projects that have made their mark on the industry.

Outside of blockchain the open source success stories are considered mainstream technology successes.

Linux has come a long way since Linus Torvalds announced the creation of an OS kernel back in 1991, with a majority of web servers currently running on its platform. Used by numerous websites and services, amongst them Wikipedia and Facebook, MySQL is the most widely used database server in the world. Utilized by 46% of all websites in the world, Apache HTTP Server has been the most popular web server software since 1996. WordPress is one of the most dominant and popular blog platforms. Google Chrome has overtaken the global desktop browser market share for 2020 with 77.3%.

Indeed, history has indicated that open source developments have been successful in claiming substantial market share.

Can the SaTT project live up to its goal of being the working advertising solution that will be widely adopted by its industry?

With a utility token that enables advertisers to buy smart advertising services on its dApp platform, SaTT helps to quantify ROI using blockchain oracles that retrieve data from media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others. When the actions performed by influencers and content creators successfully meet the criteria set by the advertiser, payments are triggered automatically from the advertisers preloaded budget to the wallet of the influencer/publisher.

Offering up a fast, secure, tamper-proof, and cost-efficient solution, the SaTT smart advertising system shows much promise, not to mention that it is already a working solution, now in the midst of implementing a massively large scale POC. With a roadmap that details how it will reach Open Source mode in six to nine months time, SaTT seems to be taking a step in the right direction.

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