The Linux Foundation, together with Canonical conducted a survey (PDF, 43 pages) representatives of various companies on the use and implementation of open source software in enterprises. Statistics were collected based on a survey of 851 participants. Key Trends:
Involvement in Open Source Development:
- 19% of open source companies are actively involved in maintaining or contributing code to key open source projects on which they depend.
- 24% noted average involvement in open source development – contributing code whenever possible, reporting bugs and improving documentation.
- 20% participate in work on open source software to a limited extent – reporting problems and participating in discussions.
- 9% rely on commercial contractors to work on upstream projects.
- 21% – use open source software, but do not participate in its development in any way.
Top investment priorities for organizations wishing to expand their participation in open source software development:
- 44% – sponsoring critical dependencies.
- 41% – developer training.
- 39% – increased participation in the development of main (upstream) projects.
- 29% – employment or payment for the work of maintainers of used open projects.
- 23% – conducting a legal audit (23%).
- 12% – do not plan to increase investments in open source software.
Areas of use:
- 55% of enterprises use open operating systems.
- 49% – open cloud technologies and container isolation systems.
- 46% – open Web platforms and application development tools.
- 45% – open DBMS.
- 45% – open continuous integration systems and DevOps tools.
- 40% – open AI systems.
Benefits of implementing open source:
- 83% of organizations recognized the value of implementing open source for their
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