Your company is using open source, even if you don’t know it. On average, enterprise organizations are utilizing 30% open source within their code bases, and industry leaders often report up to 80% of their software is open source. More importantly, they treat open source as a strategic asset, deliberately investing in open source as a brand differentiator and as a means of thwarting the competition, getting to market faster, and attracting the best talent.
Does your company have an open source strategy? Now is the time to ask this question, because more than likely your competitors do.
This 2014 All Things Open presentation by Samsung's Guy Martin and Black Duck Software's Shawn Briscoe, covers:
- Key dimensions of a comprehensive open source strategy
- Important business issues and intelligent decisioning
- How to mitigate legal and operational risk
- The value of aligning open source stakeholders towards the larger mission of corporate success
- An understanding of the role community dynamics play in a successful initiative
- Samsung – a real world case study
Ability to access source code, add features and fix code rose sharply from #8 to #4 in 2014 as a factor leading to increased enterprise adoption
Ease of deployment rose from #6 to #3
80% of respondants say they chose OSS for competitive features or technical capabilities
67% of respondents say they chose OSS for TCO – its an attractive model for product development
72% say they chose open source for security
#1 benefit is to help reduce costs
#2 answer on “why to engage with communities?” was attract and retain top talent
What is the product use case?
What is your target market?
How competitive is your market?
What is your industry doing with open source?
Open source license obligations are generally triggered by distribution, so it is important to consider whether the software will be distributed and how.
Examples:
Red Hat
Everyone & Everything
?Wordpress Apps & Android Apps & Things that run on Linux
We manage code from the point of origin to the point of consumption across the software value chain.