IBMOTS

#IBMOTS: Love & the Open Cloud
An ode to open tech and a preview of the Open Technology Summit at IBM InterConnect.
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#IBMOTS#IBMOTS: Future of Open TechA preview of the Open Technology Summit at IBM InterConnect.
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#IBMOTS#IBMOTS: The Future of OpenA glimpse into the future of open tech & preview of the Open Technology Summit at IBM InterConnect.
IBM Cloud
For those of you who haven’t yet taken the #CloudHaiku challenge, now is your chance. Give us your best 5-7-5 ode to open tech and hashtag it #CloudHaiku!
Al Gillen
as previously tweeted...
Doubters reversed course
Open code is today’s hot source
And tomorrow's force
Amy Hermes
Cloud is a team sport.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Community strong.
Swarna Podila
Thank you. I am up for a challenge or two ;) https://twitter.com/...
Rob Hirschfeld
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#OpenTech is what
A Community Builds By
Sharing Together
Rich Miller
What is "the dream"?
Radical transparency…
and abundant Code.
Todd Moore
The sun is shining

Yet new clouds are closing in

Time to OpenSource
Bert Belder
code is worth nothing
it's people that make it good
stagnation means decline
Brad Topol

Open Tech is fun
Open Tech is energizing
Come join your friends
Swarna Podila
I’m in Tweasure Trove
Open Source is on my mind
Arr! OpenPirate!
IBM Cloud
What group will be the next to fall in love with #OpenTech? Developers? CIOs? Midmarket? Where will we see open tech take hold in the future?
Lorinda Brandon
Docs and websites. We already see it happening - making your website open is becoming more common
Todd Moore
Wheelbarrow manufacturers!
Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
Developers already love it and CIOs embrace it. The next step is going to be for business leaders to innovate around it.
Swarna Podila
@tmmoore_1 and Tweasure Hunters!
Al Gillen
#OpenTech is becoming pervasive and relatively invisible... so I think it's less about who falls in love, but rather who uses it because it solves a problem, and uses it without making an explicit decision that "I'm in on OSS."
Lorinda Brandon
@tmmoore_1 yes the new tech advances are most often seen first in the wheelbarrow industry. It's a fireswamp of innovation and a tweasure for the #opentech community
Rob Hirschfeld
it would be easier to explain where it's not going.
Al Gillen
@tmmoore_1 What's good for wheelbarrow manufacturers is good for farmboys.
Swarna Podila
@zehicle *grabs popcorn* please, elaborate :)
Amy Hermes
That would be a good conversation too @zehicle
Lorinda Brandon
Seriously, I think CIOs and CEOs are learning to appreciate its benefits over its drawbacks
Todd Moore
@lindybrandon you have it. There are no bounds and every industry is into it
Rob Hirschfeld
@skpodila the economics of #opentech are compelling for the consumer and disruptive for people entering the market. #pandora
Swarna Podila
@algillen with that, Al drops the mic and walks away!
Melissa Love
Sounds like #opentech is becoming as essential to all parties as peanut butter is to jelly...
Rob Hirschfeld
@zehicle #opentech is a huge leveler for start-ups vs bigcos: "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
Amy Hermes
Challenge extended @zehicle -- no mask included....
Rich Miller
Next community to go for #OpenTech is the #BusinessProcess & #LoB community. They'll fall in lust w/ #OpenTech, followed by disappointment, then reality-based expectations. Look for a lot of "Open Process" and shared BPM offers.
Steven Dickens
@angelluisdiaz I would see that being around tech like Blockchain
Rich Miller
The ommunity that will next truly embrace and capitalize on #OpenTech : it's a tie (IMO) between the 5th Gen Networking communities (w/ SDN, real NFV, …) and the #DataAAS community, relying on everything #Blockchain & #datasPrivacy
Steven Dickens
LoB execs who can embrace tech like #Hyperledger for innovation in supply chain and resolution systems
Rob Hirschfeld
@algillen +1 that means #oss has become a business model not a religion.
IBM Cloud
It’s safe to say we all love #OpenTech. Why should the rest of the world?
Lorinda Brandon
It’s all about passion. Passion to make useful tools that work. OSS provides a myriad of tools, docs, frameworks that everyone can leverage.
Brad Topol
Open Technologies help customers to avoid vendor lockin and avoid proprietary technologies.
Lorinda Brandon
Seems like everybody already DOES love #opentech. It's a fireswamp of ideas
Al Gillen
Frankly, I would argue it's not about love, it's about practicality, best fit, and the right solutions. there are lots of people that love OSS, and don't even know what it is. (ie., Android phone users)
Swarna Podila
One look at the passion of the community members and the tweasure and the value that comes out of a community, the world can't resist but fall in love w #opentech!
Lorinda Brandon
@algillen true enough. one of the values is diversity in offerings and choices... and the ability to tailor to what you need
Dean Cobb MBA MSE SE
I see this as an opportunity to prevent re-invention of the wheel over and over again. As earlier stated, the adoption of a framework where maturation of the same can occur with community involvement
Al Gillen
Heck, even a farmboy uses open source software in a day's work.
Amy Hermes
If only I had an open, open, open Yakit @christo4ferris :)
Rob Hirschfeld
closed source can be like iocane powder - you get used to it but it really kills innovation
Steven Dickens
its the power of the crowd for development
Steven Dickens
How open source vendors make money is going to be crucial going forward... is there space for all these orgnaisations or will the big boys just hoover them up?
Rob Hirschfeld
the end users (companies) need to be more willing to sponsor open work
Rob Hirschfeld
I do have a concern that #opentech becomes a way that big companies dump partial work for cheap marketing
Lorinda Brandon
@zehicle yes - we see this happening and not just with big companies. #opentech should be an investment not a fireswamp of useless projects intended for marketing or recruiting
Al Gillen
IMHO, making money is important for OSS vendors. Losing open source "vendors," which usually drive projects, are a great loss since reduces contributions and investment to a project.
Rob Hirschfeld
sometimes I feel like Inigo Montoya with some bigco open dumps "you murdered by open source ... "
Rich Miller
@StevenDickens3 Too many companies have gone into #OpenTech business models without a clear understanding of the variations on business models and the nuance. #OpenTech cannot be a #ChildrensCrusade
Swarna Podila
agree on the need to monetize. Foundations need to corral cheap marketing out of the community and hold the community accountable
Al Gillen
It's more complicated. Even if big companies hoover up the small innovative startups, that still does not guarantee long term viability of those technologies in the face of the same projects delivered as low cost cloud services
Amy Hermes
Now THAT needs a t-shirt @zehicle :)
Lorinda Brandon
@algillen And the danger is that big companies who consume the startups can easily kill innovation through process and overhead
Rich Miller
@zehicle It's not only a BigCo hoovering up small #OpenTech companies that's problematic. Many webscale, *aaS companies have been beneficiaries w/o equitable return to the #OSS communities. It's an artifact of #OSSLicensing & a #TragedyOfTheCommons