2012 Good Year for Open Source
December 31, 2012
This year, 2012, was a crazy year with lots of big news items and lots of interesting developments in the tech world. Open Source Insider provides a 2012 year in review with, “Video: a Good Year for Open Source in 2012.”
The article jumps into some startling statistics:
“ . . . Some serious development work has been going on in the open source arena. Where Google is there to remind us to search for pictures of cute polar bears, The Linux Foundation is on hand to remind us that…
Goldman Sachs reported late last week that Windows has gone from dominating 97% of the computing market to 20%.
Android leads while Apple takes up second place. The Goldman Sachs report reads as follows, ‘Microsoft faces an uphill battle (though not insurmountable) given it lacks meaningful share in either tablets or smartphones and as such will need to rely on its appeal to knowledge workers to help drive adoption as its complement ecosystem will remain behind the iOS and Android platforms at least over the next 6-12 months.’”
Just as Internet search engines and operating systems have moved toward open source, so has enterprise search. Enterprise search is almost entirely dominated by high-quality open source search offerings. One that we particularly like is LucidWorks. LucidWorks has longevity on its side, focusing on open source before open source enjoyed such popularity. LucidWorks Search is ready out-of-the-box to bring efficiency to an organization’s information architecture. An industry standard, LucidWorks has stood the test of time, but it is still nice to get a boost from open source’s recent surge in popularity.
Emily Rae Aldridge, December 31, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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