Identifying Successful Open Source Projects

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. SHOW: 834 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #834 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSOR: Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solution SHOW NOTES: 10 Years of Kubernetes 30 Years of Linux 10 Years of OpenStack 25 Years of Java 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 FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot net Twitter: @cloudcastpod Instagram: @cloudcastpod TikTok: @cloudcastpod FEEDBACK? Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot com Bluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.social Twitter/X: @TheEntAIShow Instagram: @TheEntAIShow