2 years ago

The future of infrastructure and systems management software development is open source-driven not just by vendors but by technology users. There are many reasons to think that the next decade will see continued growth in free and open source software.

We have witnessed Confluent, Kong, Cockroach Labs and HashiCorp deliver systems management and infrastructure software as open source, and all of them have earned their unicorn horns as private companies.

That’s why I continue to see this as the most compelling way to deliver enterprise infrastructure software.

We also considered the Business Source Licenses, an alternative that delays immediate open sourcing, used by several prominent vendors.