![]() ![]() ![]() This view was summed up by MariaDB CEO Michael Howard, who noted that big proprietary cloud companies were "strip-mining open-source technologies and companies." ![]() Indeed this one was given new life by a recent New York Times article on how AWS dominates the open-source cloud database world. The latest variation of good little open-source firms versus bad big companies is plucky open-source database company against evil cloud giant (read Amazon Web Services). On top of Linux, the vast majority of cloud services are run on open-source programs. Even Microsoft Azure has now admitted that Linux runs more than 50 percent of Azure workloads. Looking ahead, Gartner predicts that half of global enterprises will have gone all-in on the cloud by 2021.Īnd, what does the cloud run on? Ding! Ding! Ding! That's right, it runs on Linux. Today, IDC says more than a third of all IT spending worldwide is on the cloud. But, the bottom line remains: The world's leading Linux company now belongs to the company number 34 on the Fortune 500.Ī decade ago clouds were more marketing hot air than reality. True, IBM was one of Linux's earliest supporters and, as I predicted, rather than IBM consuming Red Hat, Red Hat has remained an independent barony in Big Blue's corporate kingdom. People still love that story, but let's look at 2019's biggest Linux and open stories and you'll see what I mean.Įxhibit number one is IBM acquiring Red Hat in the biggest software company acquisition ever. That story is as out of touch with reality as a Hallmark Christmas movie is with small town economies. Stallman created the GNU General Public License (GPL), one of the main narratives was small plucky us-open-source and Linux supporters-versus the enormous, proprietary corporate them-with The Evil Empire Microsoft as enemy number one. From those very early days when Richard M. I've covered Linux and open source since Linus Torvalds was a grad student and before " open source" was a thing or, for that matter, before "free software" was its frenemy. ![]()
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