Red Hat’s survey results on the state of enterprise open-source software

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It’s an open-source IT world out there, and these days we’re all living there.

If you’re surprised 90% of IT leaders are using enterprise open-source software, you’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades. In its latest State of Enterprise Open Source report, that’s exactly what leading Linux and cloud company Red Hat found.

After all, as Red Hat president and CEO Paul Cormier, pointed out, “Open source has solidified itself as an innovation engine for the software industry. The technology trends that you see changing how we work and do business were born in open source — enterprise Linux, cloud computing, edge and Internet of Things (IoT), containers, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and DevOps.” It’s all open source, all the time …