A third of global enterprise infrastructure decisionmakers see expanding the use of open source as a critical or high priority, according to Forrester Research. And by 2020, 90% of software vendors will have developed an open source software (OSS) strategy to stay relevant to the market, compared with 50% in 2017, notes Gartner.

Years ago, open source was all about some random guys writing code, says Wingu MD, Thomas Lee. The quality was always great because of the peer review process, but you were left to implement and support it on your own. We’ve since seen a huge shift in the open source space; it’s big business now. The open source battle and the questions around open source are passé, says Muggie van Staden, MD at Obsidian Systems. Everyone should be using open source principles.