Tapping into the smartest software developers
“No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” Thus spake Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, offering sage counsel for companies that want to get the best possible software. If you’re in the business of selling or using software (which describes every organization on the planet), you need to architect your systems to allow for continued, evolving choice. How does that work in practice?‘Hiring’ smart open source developers Perhaps one obvious answer is open source. Most organizations have already figured this one out, at least in part. As Gartner has suggested, more than 95% of IT organizations use open source within mission-critical IT workloads. IT leaders may not always know it, but their developers do. Nor are we anywhere close to being done: Gartner predicts that more than 70% of enterprises will increase their open source spending through 2025—and that’s the paid adoption. It’s likely also correct that 100% of developers will increase their use of open source through 2025.To read this article in full, please click here
“No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” Thus spake Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, offering sage counsel for companies that want to get the best possible software. If you’re in the business of selling or using software (which describes every organization on the planet), you need to architect your systems to allow for continued, evolving choice. How does that work in practice?
‘Hiring’ smart open source developers
Perhaps one obvious answer is open source. Most organizations have already figured this one out, at least in part. As Gartner has suggested, more than 95% of IT organizations use open source within mission-critical IT workloads. IT leaders may not always know it, but their developers do. Nor are we anywhere close to being done: Gartner predicts that more than 70% of enterprises will increase their open source spending through 2025—and that’s the paid adoption. It’s likely also correct that 100% of developers will increase their use of open source through 2025.
