How the cloud will devour open source
August 14, 2015
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Matt Asay.
In one of the most colossal understatements ever, Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson declared, "It’s pretty hard to build a successful, stand-alone open source company." Having spent 15 years trying to do exactly that, I would go one step further: It’s impossible. Yes, we have Red Hat.
But that’s all we have. Investor (and former open source executive) Peter Levine insists that "we will never have another Red Hat," and he’s right. But this may be because the Amazons of the world are increasingly eating the Red Hats of the world — one SaaS business at a time…
Open source has never been more relevant
On the surface, it seems bizarre that we don’t have more billion-dollar open source companies. After all, open source seemingly powers everything, from our most significant data infrastructure to mobile to cloud. It’s open source all the way down…
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