OMA Open Source Industry Survey Results

Copyright © 2016
OMA OPEN SOURCE SURVEY RESULTS
May 2016
Elizabeth Rose, Marketing Director, OMA
erose@omaorg.org

OMA’S MOTIVATION
Ø  Two years ago, OMA started on a journey to understand how it could
improve adoption of its service-layer specifications.
Ø  Very quickly we found that Developers are key to widespread
adoption.
Ø  We began to create an ecosystem of tools and collaboration around
our specifications that allowed for Developers to implement the
specifications more easily.
•  https://github.com/OpenMobileAlliance/OMA_LwM2M_for_Developers/wiki
Ø  We also ran into the fact that the Developer community is highly
oriented toward open source code, projects, tools and associations.
Ø  We launched the survey in an attempt to find better data about how
our traditional telco-oriented members are approaching Open Source
and how that direction compares to a wider sample.
Copyright © 2016 Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved.

SURVEY BACKGROUND
Ø  The purpose of the survey is to help OMA understand the role Open
Source Software and Open Source Associations play in our industry.
•  Understand prevailing attitudes regarding Open Source and Open
Standards.
•  Examine what (if anything) OMA should be doing to better serve its
members and the industry at large in relation to Open Source projects.
Ø  The survey population:
•  The industry at large as serviced by the OMA marketing database and social
media
Ø  Survey responses – 419 individual responses including hundreds of
text-based, open-ended answers.
Ø  A summary of the survey will be available on the OMA website and will
be sent to those who participated in the survey

PUBLIC SURVEY OMA MEMBERSHIP BREAKDOWN
22%
55%
23%
Is your company a member of the Open Mobile Alliance
(OMA)?
Yes No I don't know
Public

SAMPLING OF COMPANIES OF
RESPONDENTS

COMPANIES OF RESPONDENTS
12%
9%
10%
29%
40%
Indicate your company's primary business:
Mobile operator Network equipment vendor Mobile device vendor
Software developer Other (please specify)
Public

OPEN STANDARDS DEFINITION
99%
1%
Agree
Disagree
Public
Open Standards are best defined
as documents made available to
the general public, which are
developed (or approved) and
maintained via a managed,
collaborative, transparent, and
consensus-driven process. "Open
Standards" facilitate
interoperability and data exchange
among different products or
services and are intended for
widespread adoption. (adapted
from ITU-T definition)

98%
2%
Agree
Disagree
OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS DEFINITION
Public
Open Source projects are best defined as
programs in which the source code is
available to the general public for use and/or
modification from its original design that is
made available under an open source
license. Open source code is typically
created as a collaborative effort in which
programmers improve upon the code and
often share the changes among the
programming community for such projects.
At a high level, open source licenses allow
users the freedom to use, modify, and
distribute the source code without requiring
any further permissions.

OS PROJECT PARTICIPATION
52%
25%
23%
Is your company participating in Open Source
communities or projects that are relevant to
Telecommunications or IOT?
Yes No Not Sure
Public

Copyright © 2016 Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved.Public
If your company is participating in Open Source associations that are
relevant to Telecommunications or IOT, please indicate which ones below:
Open Daylight
OpenStack
OPNFV
Open Connectivity Foundation (OIC)
AllSeen
Eclipse Foundation

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0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
Open
Daylight
OpenStack
OPNFV
Open
Connectivity
Foundation
AllSeen
Eclipse
Foundation
N/A
Other
(please
specify)
If your company is participating in Open Source associations that are relevant to
Telecommunications or IOT, please indicate which ones below:
Public

41%
37%
19%
3%
How would you characterize your participation in these
organizations?
We actively make contributions/pull requests to the code base.
We are monitoring the progress of the code base.
Our participation is more strategic than operational.
We do not participate at all.
Public

Public
In your opinion, what are your company's goals within these organizations?
Check all that apply:
•  Accelerate time to market for products/services
•  Facilitate interoperability with other products/services
•  Actively participate in the development of the code base
•  Developer enablement
•  Monitor technology advancement
•  None
•  Other (please specify)

0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
Acceleratetime
tomarketfor
products/services
Facilitate
interoperability
withother
products/services
Actively
participateinthe
developmentof
thecodebase
Developer
enablement
Monitor
technology
advancement
None
Other(please
specify)
In your opinion, what are your company's goals within these
organizations? Check all that apply:
Public

0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
My company participates actively in traditional standards bodies:
STANDARDS BODIES PARTICIPATION
Public
•  W3C, IETF and ETSI most often cited as adopting policies to accommodate
open source software

57%
2%
29%
12%
Is your company's participation in Open Source organizations
increasing, decreasing, or steady?
Increasing Decreasing Steady Don't know
Public

TELECOM & IOT SERVICES TRENDS
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•  Machine to Machine / IOT products and implementations will
•  rely heavily on Open Source implementations
•  rely heavily on Open Standards based implementations
•  rely heavily on proprietary implementations
•  Next Gen Telecom / NFV network products and implementations will
•  rely heavily on Open Source implementations
•  rely heavily on Open Standards based implementations
•  rely heavily on proprietary implementations
Please give your opinion on the following statements:

TELECOM & IOT SERVICES TRENDS
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
MachinetoMachine/
IOTproductsand
implementationswillrely
heavilyonOpenSource
implementations
MachinetoMachine/
IOTproductsand
heavilyonOpen
Standardsbased
implementations
MachinetoMachine/
IOTproductsand
heavilyonproprietary
implementations
NextGenTelecom/NFV
networkproductsand
heavilyonOpenSource
implementations
NextGenTelecom/NFV
networkproductsand
heavilyonOpen
Standardsbased
implementations
NextGenTelecom/NFV
networkproductsand
heavilyonproprietary
implementations
Please give your opinion on the following statements:
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
N/A
Public

TELECOM SERVICES TREND
Public
In the scope of telecom services deployment, what do you think will
be the dominant trend in the next several years?
•  Proprietary implementations of non standard specifications
•  Proprietary implementations of open standards specifications
•  Open source implementations of open standards specifications
•  Open source implementations not using open standards

TELECOM SERVICES TREND
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Proprietary
implementation of
non standard
specifications
Proprietary
implementations of
open standards
specifications
Open source
implementations of
open standards
specifications
Open source
implementations
not using open
standards
In the scope of telecom services deployment, what do you think will
be the dominant trend in the next several years?
Increase
Decrease
Stable
No Opinion
Public

RAND + OPEN SOURCE
36%
4%
60%
Do you believe that RAND based specifications can be
successfully implemented into Open Source projects?
Yes No Not sure
Public
Complexity and incompatibility of licensing terms often cited as the biggest hurdle.

OPEN STANDARDS + OPEN SOURCE
Agree
70%
Neutral
20%
Disagree
10%
Open Standards play an entirely different role than Open Source
Public

Agree
80%
Disagree
3%
Neutral
17%
The Open Standards community would benefit from a closer
relationship to the Open Source community
Public
•  Early open source implementations of standards can provide feedback to improve the standard
•  Open source implementations help with dissemination and proliferation of the standard

Agree
77%
Disagree
19%
Neutral
4%
The Open Source community would benefit from a closer
relationship to the Open Standards community.
Public
•  Open Standards can help open source communities with overall architecture
and system design considerations, quality, interoperability and roadmap.

QUESTION FOR OPERATORS
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
We deploy Open Source software in our networks
Our network is hosted in an Open Source enabled Cloud
Open Source software will play an increasingly important role in our procurement
activities
Open Source represents an opportunity to significantly decrease operating costs
Open Source software creates the potential for risks and we avoid using it in mission
critical applications internally or in products that we sell or license
We rely on our vendors to mitigate any risks associated with Open Source code and
we do not restrict their use of Open Source code in products we purchase from them
Open Source software adoption is a work-in-progress and we allow it in our network
with caution
We do not use Open Source in our products
Please give your opinion on which statements most accurately
reflect your understanding of your company's approach to
deploying Open Source software Agree Neutral Disagree
Public

OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS
What are the inhibitors to adoption of Open Source implementations?
Ø  Issues surrounding licensing (esp. GPL)
Ø  Industry understanding of Open Source licensing
Ø  Competitive issues and fragmentation
Ø  Security
Ø  Quality and robustness
Ø  Maintenance and support

OMA’S STEPS
Ø  We would love to hear from you!
Ø  Want to respond to the survey and share
your opinions?
•  See
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/
OSSurveyR2

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