FuelingOpen-Source

DevOps Fueling Open-Source
Or Opensource Fueling DevOps other way round ?- How are investment steered- Are we coming to terms with Open-Source with DevOps on rise ?- Business model shift & Licensing for Open-Source DevOps capabilities- How Communities can monetize their contributions
William Szepesi
What are the key challenges – do big cloud companies have an unfair advantage to influence?

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Sriram RJ
Yes and No.. :)
Garima Bajpai
license , Support,Cost , resources
William Szepesi
In a data-centric world, opensource can still be linked with a trailblazing mentality.
William Szepesi
IT is a key component in any business strategy so IT has to ask themselves if the opensource path will better serve the business requirements or will it add more risk, will it move the focus of IT away from business or add flexibility to better support the business?
Mark Peters
Big companies also have opportunity to influence, and they tend to buy start-ups who challenge - Innovators dilemma
Mark Peters
I think limiting to IT may be an anti-pattern. Technology is a component in business strategy. Understanding technology patterns is the value delivery. Understanding open source is important but requires business delivery in training, standardization, management
Mark Peters
Of course, Open source always offers innovation
Mark Peters
Why would open source decrease business value? Acquiring the right tools is part of the value stream for any solution
William Szepesi
DevOps Fueling Opensource Or Opensource Fueling DevOps other way round?
Garima Bajpai
DevOps is a vehicle
Sriram RJ
In my perspective both DevOps and Open source development are inevitable
Siddharth
its similar ques to whether #DevOps is fuelling #Cloud and vice-versa. The business is driving both is my view. So better they collaborate with each other the better for business.
Mark Peters
@bajpaigarima1 with Open source as fuel? Or open source as the economy option
Mark Peters
@pareeksiddharth Can do cloud with waterfall, all depends on user expectations
Garima Bajpai
@TinyCyber very interesting - how do you advocate the business model for economy
Garima Bajpai
@TinyCyber how we break down regulatory silos
Mark Peters
Starts with why do you haver a regulatory silo? Those individuals work better when integrated with teams, and have more awareness to fix the problems left of delivery
William Szepesi
How are investments steered?

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Sriram RJ
Interesting question.. And how are open source projects monetized as well?
Mark Peters
Through changing ROI, investments should depend on ROI - difference with Agile is need some time to start delivering MVP
William Szepesi
For both open-source and proprietary solutions, the overall framework of sourcing, business relationship management, investment, training, support are similar but with some unique, specific roles.

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William Szepesi
Is in-app advertising a solution for business apps?
William Szepesi
There are many monetization myths such as monetization is “anti-open source", or "It is complicated", or "if it is freely available, why would anyone pay me?"
Mark Peters
Open-source simply means the code is visible, doesn't mean free, or not monetized. Think subscription services, support networks, or licenses. Could freely distribute front-end code, and charge for back-end connection to verify against controlled data
Mark Peters
Advertizing monetizes web time, if the app is on the business side, could certainly use but might decrease selection by business
James Saldanha
Its a Catch 22 based on the environment & Organization where the deployment is taking place, but with the velocity at which the deployment needs to take place Open-Source is fuelling DevOps to a larger extent
Mark Peters
Good software fuels devOps, if the software is internal, don't need Open-source. However, scope of flow means looking at all available options
Siddharth
hope in that catch organizations don't end up messing their #devops tooling journey for quick patch up work :)
William Szepesi
Last question: Key advise to CxO who are looking for return of investment for an Open-source ecosystem?
Siddharth
1) support the community 2) reinvest the value that is being created back to the community. #devops #opensource
Sriram RJ
encourage more open source initiatives in your organization, help in bringing business angle to these initiatives.. that would help in growing and maturing this community
William Szepesi
What about the business model shift & licensing for Open-Source DevOps capabilities?
Siddharth
it has to be hybrid model wherein small chunks of your bigger product is supported by open source community and the wrappers of #governance & #compliance may be proprietary. #devops
William Szepesi
Is it a leap of faith to take on Open-source software for your business's core functionality and moving from paid support to an open source community support?
William Szepesi
As Garima mentioned - healthcare, telecom, finance industries have developed their own regulatons.

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Mark Peters
Can always start with open source and make it your own. Start at some point, and then make it yours. Open-source doesn't mean end product, a starting point for development
Garima Bajpai
Welcome all #FuelingOpensource
William Szepesi
We already touched on this but - How can Communities monetize their contributions?
William Szepesi
Offering services, licensing or premium code can be paths to monetize contributions.
William Szepesi
Some developers become superstars in the community and can leverage their reputations to monetize speaking engagements, or training sessions etc.
William Szepesi
Are we coming to terms with Open-Source with DevOps on the rise?
Siddharth
absolutely it need to be. Proprietary tools cannot be leveraged all the time by all the business. Open-source need to be looked outside but inside which is where the concept of Inner Open Source communities are increasing. #devops #opensource
Garima Bajpai
only when every developer is considered sponsor
Sriram RJ
it is inevitable..
William Szepesi
OPEN SOURCE EXAMPLES - Ansible, Chef, Docker, ELK Stack, Git, Jenkins, Nagios, Puppet Enterprise, Selenium, Splunk
William Szepesi
also Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge browsers