In 1998, I was part of SGI when we started moving to open source and open standards, after having been a long-time proprietary company. Since then, other companies also have moved rapidly to working with open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies has skyrocketed over the past few years. Today company involvement in open source technologies is fairly mature and can be seen in the following trends:
Open source no longer only optional
I will start by making a bold statement that all companies are using open source—ok, almost all. Some say that we live in a post-proprietary era, one in which there is open source mixed with proprietary in almost all areas of technology.
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