Open Source Impacts Information Infrastructure
January 2, 2013
Open source continues to not just meet information needs, but also drives the future direction of information including new technologies and architectural structures. Adrian Bridgwater at Open Source Insider looks ahead at the future of open source and information infrastructure in his article, “The Future Impact of Open Source on our Information Infrastructure.”
Bridgwater quotes some numbers from Gartner showing that by 2015, 25% of new database management systems will be supporting alternative data types and non-traditional data structures. He continues:
“Gartner’s Merv Adrian says that the products needed to be able to perform this work will need to “purpose-built alternatives” but that they are, as yet, immature . . . ‘This was before massive scale-out architectures were commonplace and the variety of data types now being deployed existed. New product categories have sprung up, designed to fit new needs at lower cost and with better alignment to new development tools and practices. Products and vendors are continually emerging to offer more purpose-built alternatives; these are immature, but often worth assessing.’”
In the quote above, the products and vendors continually emerging point to open source solutions. Open source is a cost-effective and efficient way to meet the needs of non-traditional data structures and types. Proprietary solutions are often incapable of reacting quickly and affordably to emerging trends. For instance, Big Data solutions are now almost entirely dominated by open source. LucidWorks is one such vendor offering a great open source Big Data solution, but LucidWorks Search is also a leading enterprise search option.
Emily Rae Aldridge, January 02, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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