The document outlines the importance of open source technology for innovation and customer needs, emphasizing Cisco's commitment to developing open standards and driving growth in open source projects. It highlights project Mantl as a simple solution for deploying microservices, noting its metrics of community engagement and contributions. Future investments will focus on IoT, data analytics, and networking at the PaaS layer.

1. OpenStack Summit
Open Source Strategy
April 2016
Lauren Cooney, Sr. Director, Open Source Strategy

2. Diagram Credit HBR

3. Time
Innovation
Customers, Partner Needs
Open Source is Critical for Success
Adoption & Monetization; New Business & Distribution Models Emerge
ProductPerformance
Open Source drives
creation, collaboration &
innovation for all
customers and provides
an option for “open”
technologies in addition
to proprietary solutions.
Taking Customers and Partners along for the journey accelerates innovation and customer needs.
Driving Innovation & Co-Creation with A Mix of Open & Proprietary Solutions
Open
Source

4. Cisco is committed to
driving the growth of
Open Source
technologies, expanding
the development of Open
Standards and investing
resources to provide for
sustainable innovation.

5. Cisco Open Source Project Participation ~ 2 years

6. Measuring Success
Committer/Contributor Diversity
Production Deployment
Community & Ecosystem
Single committer, little
pull/patch activity
Committer diversity,
active developer
engagement
Not in production,
snowflake
implementation
In production broadly,
cookie cutter
implementation
Dominated by single
org, no commercial
ecosystem
Diverse community,
commercial offers
Low High

7. Massive Growth in Project Engagement High

8. Deep Dive: Project Mantl
Quick Stats:
• 303 forks
• 2,803 commits
• 52 branches
• 26 releases
• 66 contributors
Mantl provides all the components you need to deploy your microservices
platform. We have chosen industry standard components and made them
work well together, so you don't have to write any glue code. You can focus
on your application instead.

9. Looking to the Future
Continuing Investments in
Open Source & New Projects:
• IoT
• Data Analytics (PaNDA)
• Networking at the PaaS Layer