Challenges and opportunities of adopting open source in the enterprise

1. The State of the “Open Source” Union Address

3. What is most important for executives to know about open source

4. Common Misconceptions

5. Adoption Trends

6. Why community is important

7. Opportunities and Challenges for users

9. History Founded in 2001 - acquired by Black Duck 12/31/2011 Mission: To help clients capitalize on the strategic, technological, and financial benefits of open source. The leading open source business and strategy consulting firm. 500 projects to date for more than 150 clients Founder and host of the Open Source Think Tank Black Duck Software – the “multi-source” enablement company, serving more than 850 customers in 22 countries. Black Duck enables enterprises to fully realize the compelling benefits of using FOSS components in development, while mitigating the risks and challenges. 4

10. Memory Lane

11. Memory Lane

12. “…what good is open source software; it’s a bunch of social communist crap!” SVP of R&D, Top 5 Consumer Products Company 2005

14. Advanced search and pattern-matching technologies

15. Continuously expanded

16. Custom code printing to add your own code

17. Daily security vulnerability alerts

19. 73% of respondents: open source is changing the way business operates IT

20. OSS benefits vs. proprietary software:

21. Quality, faster development time, reliabilityForrester Research (Jeff Hammond, LinuxCon, Aug. 10, 2010) “When it comes to Enterprise IT adoption, Open Source Has ‘Crossed the Chasm’” 79% of IT developers use open source in their development projects Open source is a ‘silver bullet’ that allows simultaneous improvement along all three dimensions of the software “iron triangle” of cost, schedule, features

22. Changing Nature of Software Development Software development has changed Collaborative development Componentization & Search for re-use Agile methods that can adapt to changes Market Need – “Managing Abundance” Over 475,000 FOSS projects > 100 billion lines of code “Open source is a ‘silver bullet’ that allows simultaneous improvement along all three dimensions of the software“iron triangle” of cost, schedule, features.” Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research Aug. ‘10 451 Group Survey on OSS Use (Dec. 2009) 87% of companies say OSS meets or exceeds cost savings expectations 39% of OSS users ranked flexibility as the primary benefit

23. Open Source Drives Mobile Innovation Over 3,800 new OSS projects in 2010, doubling each of the last 3 years 94% of new projects that specify a platform are targeting Android and Apple/iOS Open source has redefined the mobile industry and is spreading far beyond

24. Major Trends – Developer Mindshare End Users Closed Source Vendors Open Source Vendors Service Providers Community

25. Major Trends – Balkanazation CodePlex Sourceforge GitHub Google Private Forges

26. Common Themes Maturation Proliferation Complexity