A Fatal Flaw For Open Source

“Are you saying that all open source has to be multi-tenant to
be useful?

“No, but when it comes to building applications, until open
source projects support multi-tenant architectures, open source
won’t be the accelerator that it once was for applications that are
going to scale. It is not easy to retrofit single-tenant
applications to a multi-tenant architecture.

“What do you expect will happen?

“The ability to rapidly create multi-tenant architectures will
be a very useful skill. I suspect that the open source community
will address this in an organized manner for the most important
components. Commercial firms will of course step in with offerings
to make open source multi-tenant. But in the end, a lot of open
source won’t be converted. Don’t get me wrong, that software won’t
shrivel up and die, but it also won’t be involved in what is
clearly going to be the main event for developers: multi-tenant
applications.”

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