The Role of Open Source in IT

The Role of Open Source in IT Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation March 3, 2014

The Importance of Being on the Right Side of

History

“Software is eating the world.”

Open Source provides a better, faster, cheaper

way to produce software.

1,500,000 92%

$1,000,000,000,000,000 700,000 85%

5,547 10,923

$10,800,000,000 2,700,000

Open Source will be the new“Pareto Principle” for software development.

Moving to Strategic Use of Open Source

29%

80%

Average * Best in class

* Source: Gartner Group

“Over 80% of the software in our handsets

is open source” Carl-Eric Mols, Head of OSS, Sony Mobile

Communications

Even Apple…

This is how software is built from now on.