Stephen O'Grady, RedMonk: The Open Source Forecast is Cloudy As developers have taken over the world, they’ve driven – and been driven by – both cloud and open source. The question today is how those two macro market trends intersect, for better and for worse, and what this means for end users. What role should open source play within the enterprise and within the cloud? In this talk, we’ll explore these questions and more.

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The Open Source
Forecast is Cloudy
November 2017

2. The New Kingmakers
Flickr: Sigfrid Lundberg

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For the first time,
developers don’t
need permission

6. Flickr:Tom Raftery

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“EC2 means anyone
with a $10 bill can rent
a 10-machine cluster
with 1TB of distributed
storage for 8 hours.”
- Flip Kromer
Cause

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Consequence

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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used
CIO
DEVELOPERS
What Developers Want to Use What is Actually Being Used

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Number 1

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The
Software
Paradox

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Figure 1

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Figure 2

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Number 2

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Convenience
Kills

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The Convenience Spectrum
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Number 3

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Choice Is
Good But
Then Bad

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Option A

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Option B

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Number 4

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Would You Walk
Into a Room
You Can’t Walk
Out Of?

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Number 5

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Is the cloud
good or bad for
open source?

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