According to a survey, 69% of IT leaders say that open source is extremely important to an organization's infrastructure software plans.
Open source has come a long way in the past 20 years. Back in 2001, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer famously labeled Linux a cancer, but these days the tech giant is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation.
The times have changed, and enterprises and big players alike embrace this concept, meaning that they not only use open source but also contribute to it.
Here are some of the most important reasons why the future of software lies in open source.