2019, Linux and open source crazy development, ZDNet columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols combed the five annual big event , from which we can see the future of technology still belongs to Linux and open source software.
1, IBM for $ 34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
Number one is IBM acquisition Hat Red , which is the largest ever software company acquisitions. IBM hopes the acquisition of Red Hat, Red Hat will power and flexibility of IBM innovation and industry expertise combined with the scale and depth of open hybrid cloud technology, jointly launched the next generation of hybrid cloudy platform based on Linux and Kubernetes etc. open source technology that allows local companies as well as private and public cloud on more securely deploy, run and manage data and applications. The acquisition also means: the world's leading Linux company now belongs to the "Fortune" 500 companies ranked No. 34.
2, cloud running on open-source software
Ten years ago, the cloud more marketing heat, without landing. Today, IDC said worldwide IT spending in more than a third are in the cloud. Looking ahead, Gartner predicts that by 2021, there will be half of all global enterprise into the cloud.
The cloud, most run on Linux, and even Microsoft Azure now believes Linux running more than 50% Azure workload . And on top of Linux, the vast majority of cloud services are running on open source.
3, cloud and open source
Michael Howard MariaDB CEO summarizes the cloud and open source recent conflict situation, he pointed out that large-scale private cloud companies are a large number of open source technology and mining companies, and the use of open-pit mining is brutal way.
However, cloud and open source conflict has nothing to do with the small open-source DBMS company (eg Elastic, MariaDB and Redis) poverty, and it is supported by the rapid growth of venture capitalists in these DBMS business. In short, this is a battle between big business, in which just happened to open source software.
4, clouds, and the container Kubernetes
No matter what program to run in the cloud, is likely to be in the container. Docker despite the decline, but it is easy to use container technology dominated the IT. In terms of how people manage these containers, container scheduling software Kubernetes drowned out all other management tools. At present, all major public cloud providers, all major vendors (HPE, IBM and VMware, etc.) use Kubernetes, and Kubernetes is open source.
5, Microsoft is an open-source company
Evil Empire no longer so evil.
2019, Microsoft abandoned its proprietary Edge browser, switch to based on the new open-source version of Chromium. It is also posted on the desktop Linux Teams assembly procedures, while also strongly hinted that the rest of Office will appear on Linux. Microsoft now has its own Linux distribution, namely Windows SubSystem for Linux 2.0 (WSL), operate in conjunction with Windows 10.
In other words, as Linus Torvalds said : "The whole anti-Microsoft sometimes just a joke and fun ...... Today, they are actually more friendly I exchange with Microsoft engineers in various meetings, I think it is, they have changed. engineers are very happy, they are really happy to work on Linux. So, I totally refute all the anti-Microsoft thing. "
The authors summarize Steven, now in addition to Apple and Windows desktops, all other environments using open source software. And, as we have seen, even Windows now also increasingly using Linux and open source code. In 2020 Linux and open source software will rule everything.