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Chapter: What is Python?
Lecture: Open source and the enterprise
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Let's just talk a little quickly also about
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the broader open source world.
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Here's a report done by Red Hat on the state
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of enterprise open source.
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You see the link here at the bottom
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Enter your information and download the whole report.
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This is just what's off the public website there.
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So I want to show you just a few pictures about it.
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Now, you may say this is enterprise open source
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how is that different than open source?
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Their definition, you can find it, on the Red Hat page
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is something like enterprise hardened open source
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or enterprise supported open source.
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So this is really interesting.
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It doesn't apply to all of it.
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But I'ma show you one more thing
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to kind of of a retros-bit this enterprise term
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onto your other open source projects if you want.
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But I think this is certainly totally relevant
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in terms of the trends we'll see.
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They asked about 1000 IT folks
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who are in charge of things like this in their enterprise.
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Does enterprise open source play
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a strategic role in your organization?
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30% said it's extremely important,
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40% said it's very important.
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So we already have basically
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70% of enterprises saying yes, it's very important
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or more than that.
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And that's awesome.
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And then you know, they're still important
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to the another 30% there.
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Only 1% said, No, not for us, no, thank you.
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There's a cool quote here
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as well says open source is increasingly
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used not because it's cheaper, though it often is.
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But because it's genuinely better software.
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That's for sure.
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So many people with different ideas contributing
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to open source, at least the popular projects
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are really, really polished.
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A lot of folks coming from other areas like say
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from Microsoft and .NET
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where Microsoft controls a language
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they control the libraries
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and a lot of the important frameworks like ASP.NET
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framework and so on.
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It's a little uncomfortable to say
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we're just going to go
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and see what the community is done
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and like no one controls this
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and there's no SLA to go complain if something's wrong.
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Who do I talk to? How do I get them to fix it?
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And yet, company after company are moving
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to open source because it turns out
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that it often is genuinely better software
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with way fewer restrictions.
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So here's some other benefits as well
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lower total cost of ownership, higher quality
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access to Enterprise Level Support.
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That's the enterprise side.
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We'll talk more about that in just a moment.
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But also access to the latest innovations.
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You want to dig into more of this.
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Just go grab that report from Red Hat
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and you can check it out. It's pretty interesting.