Nearly 50% Open Source developers are working on the Cloud; Expect torrential RIA rain
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2009, 1:58 pm
My good friend, Kevin Lawton, who also writes for SeekingAlpha, send me a nudge on this article. My long due Cloud Computing article on controlled openness will soon be published. Here is an open statement that if you are not looking at the open source to help you out on the LCO path and Low Sustainable Margins, then you’ll lose out real bad.
Recently we covered open source infrastructure tools for cloud computing, which are on the rise. Providing another indication of convergence between open source and the cloud, Evans Data researchers are reporting today that nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as web services via cloud providers. The survey also found that Google App Engine and Amazon’s services remain the most popular cloud infrastructure tools among these developers.
Evans Data’s survey found that 40 percent of developers working on open source projects intend to offer applications as web services via cloud providers. That’s a big shift in approach for open source application, and further evidence that the software-as-a-service model (SaaS) currently holds a lot of appeal. One among many reasons for the appeal may be that SaaS allows for pay-as-you-go usage models for commercial open source developers, where users may favor such models in the down economy.
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