{"id":25686,"date":"2014-08-27T01:40:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=25686"},"modified":"2014-08-27T01:40:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:40:48","slug":"open-source-software-sailing-into-friendlier-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/open-source-software\/open-source-software-sailing-into-friendlier-seas.php","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Software: Sailing Into Friendlier Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>  By Jack M. Germain     08\/26\/14 8:09 PM PT<\/p>\n<p>    Open source software is now a force drawing enterprises and    developers like a magnet.  <\/p>\n<p>    The factors pulling adopters into the open source fold are    changing, though. Also changing are the attitudes of software    developers and corporate leaders about the viability and    adaptability of open source.  <\/p>\n<p>    Open source software is increasingly important within the    corporation, as a recent survey conducted by Black Duck    Software and North Bridge Venture Partners found.  <\/p>\n<p>    Developers and corporate leaders now view open source software    as a strategic advantage that can help companies create more    secure products with better features and functionality. This    helps adopters beat the competition.  <\/p>\n<p>    More first-time developers are using open source, the research    indicates. The open source movement over the next few years    will gain new industries such as education, healthcare and    government. Open source software is powering some of the    hottest technologies in the enterprise today, among them cloud    computing and the Internet of Things.  <\/p>\n<p>    The growing trend of open source supplanting proprietary    software is not the Black Duck-North Bridge annual survey's    exclusive finding. Other research bears it out.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"It is very consistent with what I see in my own developer    surveys and the surveys the Eclipse organization runs on a    yearly basis,\" said Jeffrey S. Hammond, vice president and    principal analyst for application development and delivery    professionals at Forrester    Research.  <\/p>\n<p>    There's been a sea change in terms of IT department and    enterprise support for considering open source software first,    the Black Duck-North Bridge survey found, and it is having a    significant impact on proprietary software.  <\/p>\n<p>    For example, consider Microsoft's journey over the past 10    years, suggested Hammond. Microsoft changed from labeling open    source software \"a cancer\" to starting up Codeplex.org and    integrating its products with numerous OSS projects like Linux    and Git.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxinsider.com\/story\/80950.html?rss=1\/RK=0\/RS=cuu0aAL4yD3SsHGPHMHRwE8mDOQ-\" title=\"Open Source Software: Sailing Into Friendlier Seas\">Open Source Software: Sailing Into Friendlier Seas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jack M. Germain 08\/26\/14 8:09 PM PT Open source software is now a force drawing enterprises and developers like a magnet. The factors pulling adopters into the open source fold are changing, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}