Welcome back!

We look forward to seeing you in person this year again at All Things Open.

We have a lot we want to share.

You already know open source is critical to global innovation and to progress on a secure hybrid cloud where everyone  — no matter their location, background, race or gender can develop great code and contribute to the world’s innovation, and help solve the world’s greatest challenges.

What we learned this year, is the value open source has to you – to individual coders everywhere and to your growth and career progress. Thousands of surveyed developers, like you, across the world indicated that Linux, Open databases, Containers — Kubernetes specifically —  and other open technologies are important to your careers, as well as offering you higher pay for this acumen. You can get the full view of this research during a session with Chris Ferris, IBM Fellow and CTO, open source, this year at All Things Open. [1] We also have limited paper copies of this research for visitors at our booth, which details all the findings. During ATO, we have IBM Distinguished Engineer, Brad Topol, in-person to sign a limited quantity of his brand new book with co-authors, published by O’Reilly, Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes, Delivering Highly Available Applications Services

While at All Things Open, we’ll also be sharing more about Call for Code, an open source global initiative to assist the world with Climate Change, supported by The Linux Foundation as an affiliate partner. We’ll also share the Call for Code Education Innovation Case Competition, which is a ‘no code’ competition open to all university students, and offering prizes of over $37,000.

We look forward to more innovation in the open this year at All Things Open. We believe that technology leaders do more than consume open source, they contribute actively and persistently to the communities. This idea, that companies should develop software and technologies in an open, collaborative manner, has been at the core of the IBM strategy over the last several decades.

From the creation of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in 1999, to early 2000 with the establishment of the Linux Foundation, and then the Eclipse Foundation in 2004, we have seeded and partnered with emerging open source software and technology organizations, contributing large amounts of code, billions of dollars in investment, as well as thousands of contributors with our deep commitment to the ongoing success of open source.

Most recently, this commitment to the value of open source led to IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat in 2018, driving greater innovation in the area of cloud.

Working with Red Hat, IBM Research launched Konveyer, an open source project directed at helping organizations with tooling and support for modernization and migration of applications to cloud platforms, anchored by Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.

Innovation in the era of cloud, is also being driven by the Java technologies moved into open-source working groups at the Eclipse Foundation, including Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, and Adoptium, in which IBM plays a key role as a strategic member. The just launched, IBM Semeru runtime initiative makes it easier than ever to develop and run Java applications in a cost-effective manner on open hybrid cloud environments.

While attending All Things Open 2021, we invite you to drop by our booth to learn more about our commitment to open source and to Call for Code. Get a unique first-run IBM Developer City t-shirt for The Oak City, Raleigh. While here, check out a cool game, Liberty Bikes, and grab a list of our sessions. Stop by and see the IBM and NASA sponsored State Championship Robotics Team, FRC5190, winner of the First Robotics North Carolina State Chairman’s award.  

We’ll look forward to seeing you again in person and sharing the many ways IBM is doing innovation with you, in the open.

[1] O’Reilly Survey completed in 2020, published Feb 2021: ibm.biz/oreilly-open-report

The Featured Blog Posts series will highlight posts from partners and members of the All Things Open community leading up to the conference in October.