This document discusses the state of open source software usage in organizations based on a survey. Some key findings include: - Over 76% of organizations increased their use of open source in the last year, with 40.59% increasing significantly. - The top reasons for using open source are access to innovation, cost reduction due to no licensing fees, and reducing vendor lock-in. - Common challenges with open source include keeping up with updates and patches, installation upgrades, and ensuring sufficient personnel experience. - Open source usage varies by industry, with retail having the highest usage at 60% and manufacturing the lowest rate of experts at under 30%.

1. What is The State of
Open Source Software
in Organizations?
Javier Perez
Chief Evangelist, Open Source & Security
OpenLogic by Perforce

2. Nice To Meet You!
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@jperezp_bos
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Javier Perez

3. Open Source Software Today
Open Source
Growth
Open Source
In Organizations
Open Source
Security

4. Open Source in Organizations
Has your organization increased the use of open source software
over the last year?
Yes
Yes, significantly
Remain the same
Reduced the use of open source
40.59%
36.00%
21.82%
1.63%
YES =
76.56%

5. Build Tools
DevOps Tools
Middleware Data & Storage
Runtimes/Frameworks
Other Packages
Networking & Cloud Tools
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OS & Virt
pgBackrest
pgBouncer

6. Overall Reasons to Use Open Source
#1
Access to
Innovation
•Access to innovations and latest technologies (47.27%)
•To modernize technology stack (42.36%)
•Functionality available to improve dev velocity (34.97%)
•Other (1.29%)
North America
42%
Modernization
35%
Velocity
47%
Innovation

7. Reasons to Use Open Source
•No license cost, overall cost reduction (53.17%)
•Access to innovations and latest technologies (42.25%)
•Less vendor lock-in (38.03%)
•Other (3.17%)
42%
Innovation
53%
Cost Reduction
#2
NO LICENSE
COST
38%
No Lock-In
UK & Europe

8. Lack of internal skills
It doesn’t scale as commercial software
Low level technical support
Unsecured or untested
Barriers to Use More Open Source
I don’t have reservation
Restrictions in some OSS licenses
There’s no real-time support
I can’t convince my business to adopt
29.54%
27.51%
26.65%
22.67%
20.73%
16.44%
13.19%
9.71%
37%
In Small Orgs
Don’t Have
Any
Reservations

9. How Organizations are Selecting OSS?
• Security and Availability of Patches
• Stability and Robustness
• Level of Proficiency and Experience

10. Ubuntu
OpenSUSE
SLES
Rocky Linux
Debian
CentOS
RHEL
AlmaLinux
35.55%
21.41%
19.51%
17.25%
16.08%
14.63%
11.11%
7.45%
Most Used Linux Distros
NavyLinux 4.79%
Linux Distributions Centos now #3
Image by 2023583 from Pixabay
Rocky, Alma & Navy Linux gaining

11. Cloud-Native and More
Docker
Podman
Rancher
OKD
Kubernetes
OpenStack
KVM
Istio
25.65%
17.80%
17.57%
12.47%
10.39%
9.80%
6.01%
3.97%
New Infrastructure
Openstack as popular as kUBERNETES
Image by Piqsels

12. Programming Languages/Runtimes
Languages
Java,
JavaScript,
and Python
the leaders
JavaScript
Node.js
C/C++
OpenJDK
Python
Oracle Java
PHP
Katlin
37.13%
33.51%
30.71%
30.22%
27.55%
24.07%
24.07%
22.40%
C# 18.07%
OpenJ9
Go
Swift
15.99%
13.48%
13.14%
48%
OpenJDK in
Large Orgs

13. Top Open Source CI/CD Tools
CI/CD Tools
Jenkins X
passed Jenkins
Tools running natively
in containers
Languages
GitHub Actions
Spinnaker
Travis CI
Tekton
GitLab
Jenkins X
Jenkins
Zuul
36.22%
27.64%
26.51%
25.65%
23.89%
21.82%
13.82%
11.97%
Don’t use 9.49%
Other 1.17%
Photo by Mikhail Nilov from Pexels
6% of Large orgs Don’t
use CI/CD Tooling

14. Open Source Configuration Tools
8% of Large Orgs Don’t USE
Configuration tooling
CI/CD Tools
Languages
Puppet
Kubespray
Terraform
Helm
Ansible
Chef
Salt
Don’t use
26.60%
24.84%
23.40%
21.91%
21.38%
20.82%
19.60%
16.12%
Rancher 13.46%
Zabbix 11.83%
Photo by Procreator UX Design Studio on Unsplash

15. Open Source Data Technologies
CI/CD Tools
Languages
MySQL
Cassandra
CouchDB
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
Redis
35.23%
32.52%
28.09%
21.09%
19.29%
18.34%
17.75%
16.31%
ElasticSearch 14.95%
Top 3: MySQL,
PostgreSQL & MongoDB
MySQL and PostgreSQL
popular in small orgs Too
Top 3 and many options
CI/CD Tools
Languages
Apache Flink
InfluxDB
Hadoop
Fluentd
Apache Spark
CockroachDB
Hazelcast
Fluent Bit
14.45%
13.91%
13.23%
12.42%
11.65%
9.98%
6.55%
3.61%
Other 2.44%

16. Open Source Support Challenges
• Keeping up with updates and
patches
• Installation upgrades and
configuration issues
• Personnel experience and
proficiency
Photo by Emil Priver on Unsplash
Image by Piqsels

17. Desired Technologies
Data
Science
AI, ML,DL
Virtual
reality
Augmented
Reality
K8S & K8S
Operators
Blockchain
& crypto
Nonfungible
tokens
Serverless
IOT & Edge
computing
Quantum
computing
Image by Piqsels

18. Open Source Maturity in Organizations
Retail has the
highest open
source usage
at 60%
Manufacturing
with the lowest
rate of experts
(<30%)
Banking, insurance,
financial services
with the most
Innersource (19%)
Healthcare and
pharma with the
highest rate of
OSPO (21%)
Photo by Prateek Katyal from Pexels

19. Support for Open Source Orgs
Languages
Linux Foundation (and any of its foundations)
Free Software Foundation Europe
Open Source Initiative
Apache Foundation
Free Software Foundation
Open Infrastructure Foundation
Not a sponsor
GNOME Foundation
27.96%
24.92%
24.15%
21.61%
19.43%
18.93%
18.11%
17.75%
Software Freedom Conservancy 13.71%
Eclipse Foundation
KDE e.V
9.76%
8.35%
79%
Of Respondents
Sponsor Orgs or
Projects

20. Open Source in Organizations
Is Here to Stay
Let’s Focus on Innovation and
the Support Challenges
Contribute Back

21. Thank You!
Chief Evangelist, Open Source & Security
@jperezp_bos
javierperez.mozello.com
www.linkedin.com/in/javierperez
Javier Perez
Free Download: 2022 State of OSS Report