My Talk at StackWorld 2016 I was invited to present at StackWorld 2016 this week. StackWorld is a stack-neutral conference for Developers by Dev:Network in San Francisco bay area. I presented on the topic of migrating existing workloads to containers. It tries to answer common questions, such as: Are containers just a new hype for companies to spend money on? How do we decide which applications to migrate to containers? Moving to containers mean rewriting existing apps.
Why some companies charge for Open Source Software when it is free?
Why some companies charge for Open Source Software when it is free? Before my immersion into open source software and getting to know it intimately, the question of paying for it seemed quite tricky. After all, why would someone pay for a piece of software when its source code is available for free to download, use and modify. It turns out that there are several types of open source software available today for consumption and all of them are not created equal.
Understanding The Origins of Open Source Software
In my last article, I covered the importance of embracing Open Source Software in enterprise to drive innovation and disruption . I tried to highlight that OSS has matured to a point that it cannot be ignored anymore for strategic needs and laid out a very high-level framework for its adoption in an enterprise. I have gotten a lot of good feedback and tons of questions since it hit the press.