In the space of a little over 20 years, Linux has grown from an open source ideal into an enterprise class OS used in every domain. Adoption has not been linear: growth rates in the past five years having far outstripped the preceding 15 or so. The appeal of open source among developers came first, but it took commercialization to build trust and to push Linux into the mainstream.
Technology adoption curves vary on a case-by-case basis. Virtualization, for instance, has a longer history than you’d think, though its recent rise to prominence in the enterprise has been rapid, and the adoption of open source virtualization has been faster still. Now we find ourselves at the start of an adoption curve for cloud. The benefits of cloud ICT solutions and services are well documented, but examples of enterprise class cloud-based service adoption tends to be isolated into silo solutions such as storage. Furthermore, cloud providers are proprietary services, unable to ‘talk’ to one another. Open source is required to break down proprietary walls in cloud...Read More
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