A ‘2023 State of Open Source Report’ covering open source usage, market trends and analysis from OpenLogic/Perforce Software and the Open Source Initiative received input from 872 respondents worldwide working in 20 major industries. The top level finding is that ‘open source continues to be a thriving space, with more people and organizations adopting open source technologies for cloud-native development, DevOps, AI, and more’. The survey received a total of 872 qualified responses. 80% reported an increase in open source usage. Containers and container orchestration technology, together with software development lifecycle tools, are ‘the most invested in and most commonly used open source technologies’.
2% (22) of the sample work in the ‘energy, oil and gas’ (EOG) category which, along with telecommunications, has ‘significantly increased its use and adoption of open source software in the past year. 66% of EOG respondents reported open source usage as ‘up significantly’. Motivation was cost reduction, and, particularly for the EOG group, ‘access to innovations and latest technologies’.
Popular open source tools (particularly in EOG) included AngularJS, which ‘reached end-of-life at year-end 2021’! In the EOG database category, PostgreSQL and SQLite came out tops but (surprisingly to us), only 5% (i.e. one respondent) reported use of ElasticSearch. EOG development (continuous integration/deployment) preferred tools are Gitlab and (another surprise to us) ‘Travis’. Oil & Gas is reported as being the ‘top industry’ that ‘open-sources previously closed source software’.
Overall we question how representative this study is. The sample is small and it is unclear what company sizes and geographies are involved in the 22 responses in the EOG category. Our misgivings were heightened when we read, in the concluding section on ‘how particular industries might innovate with open source in the near future’, that EOG is‘Number 1 in the planned implementation of nonfungible Tokens (NFT)’!
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