Digital transformation remains a highly important topic for enterprises that keeps evolving. With ongoing economic uncertainties, like rising inflation, market turbulence, and the energy and cost of living crisis, businesses are realizing they must do more with less over the coming year.
Organizations are gearing towards technologies that can enable their systems and processes to support each other seamlessly and enable them to drive efficiencies. In particular, they are turning to open source technologies to improve connectivity, observability and security in their ever-growing tech stacks.
With this increased reliance and demand, the open source community is facing its biggest challenge yet; ensuring strong collaboration and innovation prevail in 2023, despite open source being more enterprise-mainstream than ever before. Here are the top predictions for the upcoming year:
Open source will have a reckoning and return to its roots and principles
Open source will slam headfirst into commercial friction next year. And more open source proponents will demand a return to the roots: namely, community and contribution.
Open source is more enterprise mainstream than ever. According to 2022 data, 82 percent of IT leaders were more likely to favor a vendor who contributes to the open source community (Red Hat, State of Enterprise Open Source, February 2022.) We’ll see the dedicated open source community "stand up" against those that would shut members out of the community, or stifle innovation, whether that’s through limiting industry event participation, taking credit, supporting practices that encourage vendor lock-in, or any other closed approach to what should remain open.
More big vendors will join forces for the good of a project, similar to Google and Solo recently did on Ambient Mesh, as one example. Both had started our own projects working separately on the challenges toward t ..
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