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Coming in 2023 for the Open Source World
By Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundation
2022 was a year of mixed feedback,
particularly for the software industry. Despite many macroeconomic warnings,
cloud services continued to grow, and the open source model was embraced. 2023
is looking positive for the expansion of open source software. Here are a few
trends that will impact our industry next year.
The
Java Renaissance Continues to Gain Momentum - The use
of Java for the enterprise and more continues to see renewed interest from all
corners. Microprofile and Jakarta EE have reinvigorated the enterprise space.
The work done in 2022 with the releases of Jakarta EE 10 and MicroProfile 6.0
paves the way for open source multi-vendor Java solutions in cloud native,
microservice-based infrastructure. Enterprises used to fighting for talent are looking
at the availability of Java developers and leveraging this deep talent pool to
continue their digital transformation to cloud native infrastructure. As
enterprises everywhere begin to employ strategies to mask the complexity of
Kubernetes-based environments, open source enterprise Java is a natural
near-term solution.
In terms of enterprise Java runtimes, Eclipse
Adoptium continues to see millions of downloads as the high-quality open source
runtime for enterprise developers. In addition, Adoptium's Temurin runtime has
seen significant vendor adoption, with Google, Microsoft, and Red Hat all
announcing support for Temurin in cloud deployments. Further, thanks to its
work with Aquavit, the industry has, for the first time, a quality
certification program for Java. Not only does it give developers confidence
that their runtime will work, it has been tested for scale, security, and
performance beyond relevance to the Java language.
The Eclipse Foundation has been at the heart of many of these developments, and
there is much more to come in 2023.
Enterprises
realize that contributing to the health of OSS communities is no longer a
luxury but essential to their business - Now that the
world relies on open source software for just about every important function in
the cloud and the internet overall, enterprises leveraging these technologies
are going to realize that participating in the open source community is in
their best interests. In a majority of cases, large enterprises use OSS in ways
that are critical to their core competence.
As a result, enterprises will evaluate ways to
contribute to the OSS projects and communities most important to them and their
markets. While many enterprises are used to controlling all aspects of their
product builds, it will become clear that collaboration is essential to speed
innovation and product development. What's more, these same enterprises will
realize that the foundation model is the best one that now solves the
constraints around the security, sustainability, vendor neutrality, and
longevity of OSS projects.
2023 is
the Year that the Automotive Industry Takes the Software-Defined Vehicle to
Reality - Based solely on the moment of Eclipse
Foundation's Software-Defined Vehicle Working Group, which saw dozens of new
members join in 2022, it's easy to see why we're making this prediction.
Automotive companies, already familiar with leveraging pre-built components to
save money and speed innovation, are recognizing that they can't get to a pure
model individually and will need to collaborate to build open source
technologies and open standards that will benefit the entire industry as a
whole.
By open source, we mean an open technology
platform that will include open-sourced, modular software components and
frameworks fully integrated into a modern developer experience with a high
degree of automation and virtualization. Our code-first approach will consider
high-performance computers as well as ECUs and will cover in-car and cloud use
cases as well as the required underlying toolchains for SDV development. These
solutions don't aim to "reinvent the wheel" but rely on open
standards wherever possible.
This disruptive approach is poised to
transform how vehicles are built, maintained, and sold around the world. 2023 is
the year that the world recognizes its benefits.
Conclusion
So far, my track record for these things is
around 60/40, with the majority of my prognostications coming true. I'm most
excited about the potential for the SDV WG here at the Eclipse Foundation, but
all of these trends will be impactful. We'll have to do another tally at this
same time next year. Until then, Happy Holidays!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Milinkovich is a recognized industry
leader and open source community champion. He has been involved in the software
industry for over thirty years, doing everything from software engineering, to
product management to IP licensing. He has been the Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundation since 2004. In that role he is responsible for supporting
both the Eclipse open-source community and its commercial ecosystem. Prior to joining Eclipse, Mike was a vice
president in Oracle's development group. Other stops along the way include
several startups, IBM, and Nortel Research.
As an industry leader, Mike has sat on the
Boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and the OpenJDK community, as well
as the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process (JCP).