Red Hat says companies are more likely to choose vendors to contribute to the open source community

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Red Hat recently released a report called "The State of Enterprise Open Source" in which it discloses the results of the surveys that were conducted to a large catalog of business leaders and in which it basically discloses in this year's report that there is a high probability that a vendor will be chosen that contributes to the open source community. 

The Red Hat blog report reveals that 82% of business leaders are more likely to choose an open source vendor, with flexibility, access to development resources, and cost among the top reasons.

“Each year, we survey a wide range of IT decision makers on the state of enterprise open source. Usually there are one or two results that we really didn't expect. Here are some from this year's The State of Enterprise Open Source 2022 report, for which we surveyed nearly 1,300 IT decision makers from midsize and large enterprises around the world," said Gordon Haff, senior product marketing manager at redhat.

Last year, when Red Hat decided to launch a new survey to find out if people cared if their enterprise open source vendor was contributing to open source, according to Red Hat, expectations were low. Over the years, surveys have often revealed that companies are most interested in open source as a source of less expensive software in a good quality product.

Admittedly, sentiments have changed over time, with attributes such as higher quality, security, and access to innovation increasingly eclipsing lower cost of ownership as the main benefit of enterprise open source software.

"But we were still surprised when 82% said they were at least slightly more likely to choose a partner vendor," Red Hat said.

This year, the same percentage is more likely to buy from taxpayers, reinforcing the idea that last year's result was no fluke. But Red Hat also delved into the "why" this year and again, new surprise!

Among the reasons to choose contributing providers, 49% of the respondents mentioned familiarity with open source processes and help maintain a healthy open source community. All suggest a more sophisticated understanding of the open source development model.

This model assumes that part of the value obtained by using open source projects to create products it returns to the open source communities, in a kind of virtuous circle. The fact that IT decision makers answered "why" the way they did indicates that many buyers do not view open source enterprise products in the same way as proprietary products.

Rather, it is the product of a different, and often better, development process. This is likely to explain in part why this year's survey also saw enterprise open source continue to grow at the expense of proprietary software. We've also seen increased security as a major benefit of enterprise open source.

This year, 89% of IT managers said enterprise open source was at least as reliable as proprietary software. This is a big change from not too long ago. Previously, many potential buyers believed that being able to see the source code inherently lowered the security of the code, similar to being able to see the schematics of a physical security system.

“Improved perception of open source enterprise security is something we've been tracking in surveys, focus groups, and conversations with customers for several years. The fact that free software security remains well-received this year is not

What was less obvious, according to Red Hat, was why respondents thought enterprise open source was a security advantage.

Enterprise open source is increasingly seen as having the same positive attributes as proprietary software, while also providing the benefits that come from the flexibility of open source licensing and the open source development model.

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  1.   SANCHEZ, Pablo Gaston said

    I think that Open Source is becoming more and more relevant in the world of software. Here in Argentina, it has begun to be highly valued, mainly in the university academic environment. Let's hope that the same thing happens with developers when it comes to facing the cross-platform for OS.