Open Source Stacks: Jumping the Shark or Poised for Dominance?
Friday, June 16th, 2017 @ 01:34 PM EDT
Contributed by: Andy Updegrove
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By any measure, the rise of open source software as an alternative to the old proprietary ways has been remarkable. Today, there are tens of millions of libraries hosted at GitHub alone, and the number of major projects is growing rapidly. As of this writing the Apache Software Foundationhosts over 300 projects, while the Linux Foundation supports over 60. Meanwhile, the more narrowly-focused OpenStack Foundation boasts 60,000 members living in more than 180 countries.