- Enterprises increasingly shifting to open source software solutions.
- In 2020 to meet their remote organizational needs.
- LinkedIn and Spotify open-sourced tools they developed from Java machine learning libraries to audio file processing ecosystems.
- Seed-level startups like Eradani and RudderStack built their products on open source.
Enterprises increasingly shifting to open source software solutions in 2020 to meet their remote organizational needs. And, also to address new market demands for quality and speed. COVID-19 challenged not only the economy, but also enterprises’ existing frameworks for how, when, and at what volume people use information technology. Internet traffic skyrocketed by over 30% in March, especially to platforms for online learning and telecommuting.
Microsoft Teams users set a new record for 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day, and Microsoft, along with Netflix and YouTube, temporarily reduced video streaming quality and download speeds to cut back on bandwidth consumption.
Pandemic is accelerating enterprises
Internet traffic skyrocketed by over 30% in March, especially to platforms for online learning and telecommuting. Microsoft Teams users set a new record for 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day. Microsoft, along with Netflix and YouTube, temporarily reduced video streaming quality and download speeds to cut back on bandwidth consumption. These changes highlighted consumer demands for new digital communication tools and challenged enterprise IT teams to create and manage them — quickly.
And enterprise IT teams, now distributed and in some cases fully remote, had to organize their own workaround for new kinds of applications and develop them in days or weeks, as opposed to months or years.
Open Source Adoption
Developers can build applications at greater volumes by reusing open source code instead of starting from scratch. Enterprise IT teams can also integrate open source tools into their existing workflows to manage their data with improved precision. This control is increasingly important, given the pandemic’s overall shift toward digitalization, which increases the amount of data itself.
“The number of apps that get created right now is at an all-time high. And then the number of those apps that [use] open source is also at an all-time high. It’s probably because of code reuse and ability to just go from zero to 60% or 70% of what you need to create very, very quickly,”
