Open source to go under the radar in 2007
We are only two weeks into 2007 and one trend already seems clear.
Open source will fly under the radar in 2007.
The media explosion that hit after the realization Linux was competitive with Windows in the server business and the SCO suit is getting old.
New stories have replaced it. Windows Vista. The Apple iPhone (or whatever). Wireless gadgets of all types are now the official story of the decade.
Open source, by contrast, is for geeks.
Which in a way is fine. I enjoy writing about the development process, about implementation issues, and about organizational structures. It's been my job for nearly three decades now.
But it's likely fewer readers will follow. It will appear, then, that the energy will go out of open source, even though it won't. Most great Internet companies depend on it, as do most of the not so great ones. The march of enterprises toward open source tools, and development, will continue.
Just under the radar.