10 Open Source Challenges | Linux Today

10 Open Source Challenges

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Cynthia Harvey
Feb 23, 2017

For the open source movement, things seem to be going better than ever. Desktop Linux still hasn’t caught on the way advocates had hoped, but within the enterprise, open source is becoming the norm.A Black Duck survey found that 65 percent of enterprises increased their use of open source software in 2016, and open source software is dominating in areas like big data analytics, containerization, development tools, cloud infrastructure, the Internet of things (IoT) and others.

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