The State of the “Open Source” Union Address

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State of the Industry

Presentation FocusAddress high level topics related to open source for executives in product, technology, legal, finance and strategy Takeaways• An understanding of the issues related to open source,

enabling rapid and informed decision making by enterprise IT executives

• What is most important for executives to know about open source

• Common Misconceptions• Adoption Trends• Why community is important• Opportunities and Challenges for users• How Open Source is Evolving and What it means to You

Presenter - Andrew Aitken

In 2001 Mr. Aitken founded Olliance Group and brought together a team of industry veterans to provide management and strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source. In January 2005, Mr. Aitken spearheaded and continues to host the software industry’s only “think tank” on the future of commercial open source, now a bi-annual event held in Napa, CA and Paris, France, and regularly attended by the industry’s leading CEO’s and visionaries. (thinktank.olliancegroup.com) In December, 2010, Black Duck acquired Olliance Group and today Mr. Aitken is GM of Olliance, a Black Duck Company.

Mr. Aitken has participated as an expert witness on the issues of open source and e-voting to the California Senate. Andrew has chaired and spoken internationally at multiple industry and government conferences, is on the Board of Advisors of SugarCRM, Actuate, DotNetNuke, and Funambol and has personally worked with companies such as: IBM, Sun, Intel, Nokia, HP, and others, assisting them with developing their open source strategies. Further, in October 2009, Andrew was voted one of the most influential people in open source by a survey of peers conducted by Mindtouch, Inc.

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.

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Memory Lane

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Memory Lane

“…what good is open source software; it’s a bunch of social communist crap!”

SVP of R&D, Top 5 Consumer Products Company2005

The Black Duck Open Source KnowledgeBase

– Tens of billions of lines of code

– 475,000 + OSS projects, all versions

– Over 5,060 sites

– Representing 2,000 + unique licenses

– 550+ cryptographic algorithms

– 7.8 billion code “fingerprints”

Comprehensive database of OSS project information

• Addresses the “long tail” of OSS projects

• Advanced search and pattern-matching technologies

• Continuously expanded

• Custom code printing to add your own code

• Daily security vulnerability alerts

• Automated metadata updates issued ~2x month

Market Trends: Open Source has gone Mainstream

Forrester 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

Accenture research on OSS (August 2010)

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

– OSS benefits vs. proprietary software: Quality, faster development time, reliability

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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

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

“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

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

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New Mobile OSS Projects

Android55%

Apple iOS39%

Windows2%

Blackberry2%

Palm/Web OS1%

Symbian1%

Meego/Maemo0%

New 2010 FOSS Projects by Platform

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Major Trends – Developer Mindshare

End Users

CommunityService

Providers

Closed Source

VendorsOpen

Source Vendors

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Major Trends – Balkanazation

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Common Themes

Maturation

Proliferation

Complexity