The Open Source Forecast is Cloudy

10.20.2005

The Open Source Forecast is Cloudy

November 2017

The New Kingmakers

Flickr: Sigfrid Lundberg

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For the first time,developers don’t need permission

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 cloudgood or bad for open source?

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