The Open CIO Series: navigating today's open source landscape
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Open source is pervasive in our industry, and CIOs no longer ignore how their team relies on open source to deliver what IT is expected to do - regardless of size, industry or geography.
Yet, many CIOs feel lost on a rapidly changing, almost divergent open source ecosystem and feel they lack foresight to lead a sustainable open source strategy. What's going on with container orchestrators? Should I be looking into an application platform or maybe serverless? What's up with Postgres compared to the plethora of open source databases that have been launched the last few years? How should I read Foundations? Should I join them? Should I trust VC funding key open source projects?
In this session, we will provide a rich set of fundamental resources for CIOs, examine key industry trends and use cases and provide a framework for CIOs to have an informed viewpoint when it comes to open source in the enterprise. This simple framework focuses on:
1. Internal community building - open source usage recognition, open source programs, open source community
2. Leveraging the ecosystem - how to bring community into the IT vendor ecosystem as trusted partners
3. Staying informed - how to drink from the firehose in a thoughtful way and remembering you can't spell open source without open