Traditionally software has been proprietary and closed source. Companies use to hire top-notch software programmers internally and write code to develop software products. All was good until open source movement has started and many companies didn't pay attention to Linux until it got popular in the web world in early 2000.
Now many companies are taking that route to open source some great products like Hadoop, Open Office etc. Apache foundation has become the de facto standard due its business friendly license. The VC community seems to be excited and entering the bandwagon. Recently good chunk of funding went to open source software names like MongoDB, Hadoop etc. With all these trends, companies now need an open source strategy to innovate and align with the company's vision. This puts us in the new brave world of software. Bits are developed, tested and certified across the world.
Is the future of software is open source and free? Seems like it!
Now many companies are taking that route to open source some great products like Hadoop, Open Office etc. Apache foundation has become the de facto standard due its business friendly license. The VC community seems to be excited and entering the bandwagon. Recently good chunk of funding went to open source software names like MongoDB, Hadoop etc. With all these trends, companies now need an open source strategy to innovate and align with the company's vision. This puts us in the new brave world of software. Bits are developed, tested and certified across the world.
Is the future of software is open source and free? Seems like it!
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