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Identifying Successful Open Source Projects
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:32:37
Publish Date: 2024-06-30 05:00:00
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As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects. 

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WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
  • Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
  • Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model

WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?

  • Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
  • Complex projects vs. “it just works”
  • Critical security - Vault
  • Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
  • Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
  • Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
  • Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
  • Cloud services hiding complexity
  • Cloud services stretching across clouds
  • Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
  • Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale

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