Innovation and modernization are top priorities for companies today, given that both create value for the customer. The path to these twin objectives increasingly runs through open-source software.

Open source is one of the more remarkable innovations of the past 30 years. Conceived by a university student, Linus Torvalds, in Finland in 1991, today open-source solutions can be found in the technology stacks of 99% of Fortune 500 companies.

Open source provides immense power through the “bazaar style” of development, giving anyone the ability to participate and contribute, and bringing together the best minds throughout the world….