| |March 20198ack in 2000 most Fortune 1000 companies shunned the idea of utilizing OpenSource technologies. Not that there were many commercially available products to choose from. What most technology managers didn't realize at the time, was that the OpenSource community was in the midst of a technology innovation revolution. The first shot of this revolution was fired in 1991 by a young Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. His personal operating system project (Linux) proved to be the foundation and spark that ignited an innovation explosion. In the 24 years since the Linux kernel was introduced, there have been dozens of technologies that have changed the perception and adoption of Open Source within large U.S. businesses. Below is a partial list of OpenSource technologies that have had a large disruptive impact: Linux (Operating System) Apache Web Server (Web Server) MySql &PostgreSQL (SQL Relational Database) PHP, Perl, & Python (Programming Languages) BIND (DNS Networking) OpenSSH & OpenSSL (Security) Qmail, Sendmail, & Postfix (Email Communications) Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser)Hadoop (Big Data)Cassandra (NoSQL Database)Spark (In-Memory distributed computation engine)Businesses' perception and adoption of Open Source has exploded over the last decade. Spurred by all the technology innovations, we now see about 86 percent of non-technical industries using open source. With the advent of the cloud-based delivery architecture and the "try-before-you-buy" model, open source business monetization is now a reality. A recent study by North Bridge highlights the incredible adoption we have seen. 78 percent of companies say they run operations on open source64 percent of companies participate in open source projects66 percent consider open source options before proprietary software43 percent say open source provides greater ease of deployment55 percent say open source delivers superior securityThese statistics support the fact that open source has become mainstream and it is engrained in most companies. It is proving to be a smarter choice than proprietary technology packages. THE OPENSOURCE INNOVATION REVOLUTIONTHE OPENSOURCE THE OPENSOURCE expert opinionBy Ray Estevez, CIO, V12 GroupBMY ADVICE TO EVERYONE IS TO EMBRACE THE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS THAT THIS MOVEMENT CONTINUES TO PRODUCE
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