Death of proprietary software
Every time I speak at conferences, there is one specific topic that I always try to bring up. “Quickly, name a new proprietary enterprise-software that has spread widely in data centers in the past 12 months.” After a few seconds: "Okay, 24 months." Silence. "36 months?" Silence again. “Okay, name any proprietary product that has been distributed in the data center for the past 10 years ... any data center” (we’ll leave the data center’s choice to readers). Silence again. Then I make a statement that usually guarantees a somewhat mocking response from the audience: “we have witnessed the latest proprietary software products that have been widely used in data centers in our lives.” I do not know why such obvious conclusions attract so much attention, but I do not think that we have ever really thought about the consequences. We saw the latest proprietary software products that managed to spread in data centers. Point.
Those of us who are connected with the world of Open Source have often wondered what world domination will look like. I think we now know. We thought it would be a high-profile event, but in reality the world of proprietary software died with a quiet sob. Existing giants of proprietary software retain their achievements, clinging to established positions by any means and do not innovate their products. The innovations they are trying to create come not into the world of proprietary enterprise software, but into the worlds of SaaS and cloud services (which are proprietary themselves, but this is a topic for a separate entry). They, like all who carefully gazes, know that the old order is dead, and dinosaurs must evolve for survival.
Now innovations are taking place in places like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and others intended to provide a service on a massive scale. In companies such as Red Hat, who intuitively paid attention to the new world order of development. I see no signs that this may end or slow down soon. The center of innovation will continue to be those who are pushing the boundaries of scalability, as well as those who understand the new distributed and decentralized software development model.
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This is what a complete victory looks like, and such is the state of Open Source in 2013.
Those of us who are connected with the world of Open Source have often wondered what world domination will look like. I think we now know. We thought it would be a high-profile event, but in reality the world of proprietary software died with a quiet sob. Existing giants of proprietary software retain their achievements, clinging to established positions by any means and do not innovate their products. The innovations they are trying to create come not into the world of proprietary enterprise software, but into the worlds of SaaS and cloud services (which are proprietary themselves, but this is a topic for a separate entry). They, like all who carefully gazes, know that the old order is dead, and dinosaurs must evolve for survival.
Now innovations are taking place in places like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and others intended to provide a service on a massive scale. In companies such as Red Hat, who intuitively paid attention to the new world order of development. I see no signs that this may end or slow down soon. The center of innovation will continue to be those who are pushing the boundaries of scalability, as well as those who understand the new distributed and decentralized software development model.
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This is what a complete victory looks like, and such is the state of Open Source in 2013.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/173517/
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