A must read of the year! "Global Open Source Ecology Research Report (2022)": The global open source ecology has evolved from "rapid prosperity" to "steady refinement"

On September 16, the "2022 OSCAR Open Source Industry Conference" hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and the China Communications Standards Association, and hosted by the Cloud Computing Standards and Open Source Promotion Committee was held in Beijing. As an annual heavyweight research achievement, the "Global Open Source Ecology Research Report (2022)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") was released at the conference. This is also the third time that the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology has released a research report in the open source field after 2020 and 2021. Li Wei, deputy director of the Cloud University of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, made an in-depth interpretation of the report.

Compared with the previous two years, this year's report for the first time sorted out the positive impact of the global open source ecological development on the digital economy, and summarized the important drivers of open source for various technical fields. At the same time, it provides comprehensive insights from the evolution of global open source ecological trends, the steady growth of open source projects, the polymorphic and balanced development of open source communities, the continuous improvement of open source applications, the unusually hot investment and financing of open source, and the prominent impact of open source risks. The development opportunities of my country's open source ecosystem provide important references for open source industry practitioners.

From "high-speed prosperity" to "steady refinement", open source builds a new paradigm of digital economy

Under the wave of digital economy, platform-based and collaborative resource organization and management methods have gradually become the mainstream. With its equality, openness, collaboration, and sharing, open source is improving the efficiency of software development and becoming a mode of production collaboration required in the digital age.

The report first analyzes the profound impact of open source on the global digital economy. The report points out that, as a new production relationship and technology collaboration model in the digital economy era, open source plays an important role in promoting digital technology innovation, optimizing software production models, enabling the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and promoting enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

From the perspectives of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, open source has positive promotion and obvious promotion effects. It not only optimizes the software production system and improves software production capacity, but also builds a technology exchange platform for various industries and continuously deepens the industry of digital technology. application to drive the digital construction of the industry.

At the same time, the report pointed out that open source will bring four significant effects to the digital economy: first, open source is transparent and fair, builds trust, and accelerates the development of digital technology; second, open source builds a new paradigm of software production and enhances the resilience of the industrial chain; third, open source broadens industry applications Scenarios to promote the optimization and transformation of the industry; Fourth, open source promotes cost reduction and efficiency enhancement of enterprises, and releases the momentum of enterprise development.

Open ecological symbiosis and common prosperity, deepen technical cooperation and promote scientific and technological innovation

With the wave of open source rushing forward, a huge technology ecosystem has been formed around open source, and the more emerging fields, the greater the proportion of open source technologies. The report pointed out that the technical fields with the highest proportion of open source projects are: artificial intelligence, operating systems, cloud computing, databases, and middleware.

In the field of artificial intelligence, open source accelerates the entry of global artificial intelligence technology into the stage of deep learning, and the open source deep learning framework continues to lower the threshold for use and accelerate the innovation and application of artificial intelligence models.

In the field of operating systems, Linux has become the most successful open source operating system in the world. Open integration has helped open source operating systems to derive multiple technical lines.

In the field of cloud computing, after more than ten years of development, a development trend of cloud native as the mainstream technology has been formed. Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, and Huawei Cloud have all stepped up their efforts in open source, providing greater technical contributions to open source projects.

In the database field, open source is accelerating the diversification of database products, and open source databases are gradually becoming the mainstream of the industry. Driven by open source, "multiple mixed database + cross-database management platform" will form a new database ecosystem.

In the field of middleware, open source effectively breaks the technological monopoly, lowers the threshold for use, and emerges more specialized and specialized middleware products to continuously adapt to real business scenarios.

The global open source ecosystem is becoming more and more mature, and risks and challenges cannot be ignored under prosperity

In recent years, the development of the global open source ecosystem has further matured, and the open source ecosystem has been optimized and upgraded. The report pointed out that the global open source ecosystem is entering a new stage of rapid development. On the one hand, open source projects develop steadily, and technological evolution will form a development model dominated by open source; on the other hand, open source project communities, organizational communities and platform communities develop polymorphically.

With the in-depth development of open source, deepening the application of open source software, and promoting informatization construction are becoming the focus of a new round of competition in countries around the world, and countries with a high degree of informatization generally actively promote the use of open source software. For example, the EU government vigorously purchases open source software and promotes the use of open source software, which has elevated the development of open source to the national strategic level. The US government focuses on promoting open source software and public data.

The rapid development of open source has also brought about the continued popularity of the capital market. The report pointed out that open source investment and financing ushered in the "billion era", showing the new characteristics of large number of single transactions and fast financing, and the database field has become the darling of open source financing. At the same time, the global open source business model has diversified and the market has gradually grown into a large scale.

Although the open source track continues to be hot, the hidden dangers of prosperity cannot be ignored. Excessive reliance on open source software will not only lead to the homogeneity of software products, but also increase intellectual property risks, security risks, and supply chain security risks, which must be taken seriously.

The report shows that the risk of security vulnerabilities in the code base is relatively serious, and the use of outdated and vulnerable open source components is still the norm in the software development process. The five industries with the highest code bases containing open source vulnerabilities in the 2021 statistics are IoT, aerospace, automotive, transportation and logistics, internet, and mobile apps. In addition, the compliance risks and supply chain security risks of open source licenses are receiving more and more attention.

Among them, supply chain risks are relatively hidden, and the development situation is extremely severe. The open source risk management and control mechanism is not perfect, which will lead to a centralized exposure period for open source risks in the future. If the industry cannot establish a sound open source security review and assessment and risk governance mechanism, the number of open source risk events will continue to rise, the frequency of occurrence will continue to increase, and the consequences will become more serious.

my country's open source ecology has entered a new stage, responding to changes and grasping new opportunities in the industry

The "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 Vision Outline mentioned open source for the first time, and clearly proposed to support the development of innovative consortia such as digital technology open source communities. Expanding, my country's open source ecological development has entered a new stage.

In this context, since 2018, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology has successively established open source communities in the financial industry, communications industry, technology manufacturing industry, and automotive industry, as well as a trusted open source community community to discuss industry open source technology applications, open source governance and spontaneous open source. Ecological construction.

Finally, the report proposes that my country's open source ecosystem should actively create new opportunities, and provides suggestions for the future development of the open source industry from five aspects: refining new ideas, exploring new directions, integrating new forms, applying new models, and governing new mechanisms.

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