Session: Open Source Stories From the Trenches – 6 Surprising Things Enterprises Can Do With Open Source
Open source has been around since the last century. Even before being called open source, it was originally called free software (as in freedom to run, study, hack, and share). Leadership teams of businesses today are facing extreme pressure from markets, competition, but also from the current pandemic that is radically changing the way we do business and engage with our customers. They need to adapt, imagine new revenue models, innovate as never before, and attract a new generation of talent that will fuel this evolution and create a future where they are relevant. Organizations large and small have started leveraging the benefits of open source to levels probably never imagined by the original inventors of the concept. Because open source is a way to develop software that inherently allows people from multiple locations, cultures, backgrounds, organizations, even motivations, to work together on common projects, organizations are doing surprising things with it. Let’s explore a few.
