{"id":5062,"date":"2014-12-29T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2014-11-18T09:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:09:35","slug":"open-source-software-usage-has-become-pervasive-among-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-source-software-usage-has-become-pervasive-among-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Software: Usage has Become Pervasive Among Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers know and use Open Source. \u00a084 percent of them are using it. \u00a0Developers use Open Source for performance, reliability and cost. \u00a0Compared to proprietary software open source software has grown a reputation for being easier to get started with and with far fewer issues that come along with acquiring new software.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jeffrey Hammond bio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forrester.com\/Jeffrey-S.-Hammond\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Hammond<\/a>, analyst at\u00a0Forrester,\u00a0said that &#8220;open source used to be popular because of the lower cost. Now the cost of tools is the least important element for developers&#8230; \u00a0Open source is taking over. This is a golden age for developers.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0Hammond presented findings from a survey on Open Source software taken jointly by\u00a0<a title=\"Black Duck Software survey on Open Source Software\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackducksoftware.com\/resources\/webinar\/2014-future-open-source-survey-results-revealed\" target=\"_blank\">Black Duck Software<\/a>, Forrester and North Bridge Partners.<\/p>\n<p>The three industries expected to be most impacted by Open Source technologies are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Government<\/li>\n<li>Health Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Increasingly Open Source data is not only competing against dominant proprietary software, but it is being used as the primary vehicle for developing and defining new software markets, like for big data and NoSQL. \u00a0<a title=\"Steven Vaughan-Nichols bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/meet-the-team\/us\/steven-j-vaughan-nichols\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Vaughan-Nichols<\/a> commented in an article on ZDNet 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