Software-Defined Vertical Industries: Transformation Through Open Source (2024)

What do some of the world’s largest, most regulated, most complex, centuries-old industries, such as finance, telecom, and energy, have in common with rapid-development, bleeding-edge innovative, creative industries such as the motion pictures industry?

They’re all increasingly dependent on open source software (OSS) and are building open source into the fabric of their R&D and development models. Almost every industry sector in the global economy today relies on software and hardware products whose codebases contain open source code, and the percentage of open source versus proprietary code is growing.