Adoption Spectrum
Through working with our clients and surveying the IT industry, OpenCrowd has mapped the current state of adoption of open source software.
We separated the adoption spectrum into different categories of technologies and the different levels of adoption. The level of adoption of technologies is not a comment on the maturity of those technologies, but measures of how typical it is to find those technologies used within IT organizations.
For companies just starting to leverage open source, technologies in the widespread column should be considered first. IT organizations that are already using open source will find many of the widespread technologies being used and should be looking at the emerging open source projects that are flourishing in the industry.
For each of the technology areas there are several open source projects that provide those capabilities. Each may be in a different state of adoption, maturity, and have differentiating capabilities. IT organizations should investigate which projects are flourishing and best meet their needs before using them in their systems.
