Monique Williams, Hyland SA, says it’s still the case, even today, that open source adoption provides quick access to innovation and the latest technologies.

The use of open source software has been on the rise for a while, and it’s not showing any signs of slowing. In fact, in the aftermath of the pandemic, enterprises are speeding up the digitisation of their infrastructure, operations, processes, and customer experiences, and are turning to open source to achieve this.

Dion Harvey, regional GM, Red Hat Sub-Saharan Africa, says that many forward-thinking IT leaders view open source as an effective approach to realise faster innovation and take products to market more quickly. As such, its use is only set to increase, with Gartner predicting that during this year, more than 70% of new in-house applications will be developed on an open source database.