开源流程推动软件定义的一切

Linux Foundation（LF）一直在悄悄推动工业革命。它正在引发对软件定义的一切的独特变革，这代表了垂直行业的根本转变。 LF在9月24日发布了一份广泛的报告，内容涉及软件如何定义一切以及开源软件如何数字化改变全球必不可少的垂直行业。 “软件定义的垂直行业：通过开源转型”深入研究了Linux基金会服务的主要垂直行业计划。它着重介绍了最著名的开源项目，以及基金会为何相信这些已有100多年历史的关键行业垂直市场已经使用开源软件进行了自我改造。 数字化转型是指将所有企业转变为由软件驱动的高科技企业的过程。朝着软件定义的一切的转变对于垂直行业组织来说是一个根本性的转变，相对于大多数软件供应商，其中许多组织通常都拥有小型软件开发团队。 一些世界上最大，最受管制的，复杂且具有数百年历史的行业，例如银行，电信，电影，公共卫生和能源，具有一些共同的基本要素。这些行业不仅依赖开源，而且还在其研发模型的基础上构建开源。根据LF分析，它们都依赖于开源协作所提供的创新速度。 在垂直行业中，与众不同的一个关键因素是采用开放源代码，在这种情况下，公司已从成为用户转变为贡献者。该报告的数据显示，采用四分之一的公司采用开放源代码对创新的影响是其他四分位数中的公司的三倍。 在过去的20年中，Linux Foundation从一个项目Linux内核扩展到数百个不同的项目社区。 LF开发了基础即服务模型，该模型支持跨关键水平技术领域在开源上进行协作的社区。 但是，这些项目社区中有许多是跨垂直行业分组的，例如汽车，电影，金融，电信，能源和公共卫生计划。他们可能是作为个人努力开始寻找Linux Foundation的中立之家。但是随着时间的流逝，这些社区发现协作很有用，因为支持项目的组织将协作范围扩展到其他领域。 Linux基金会已经成为在全球率先倡导开源模型的领先组织。它的项目得到了超过25万名开发商和18,000家公司的贡献。 Linux基金会高级副总裁兼项目总经理Mike Dolan表示，全世界有2,000多名会员支持Linux基金会及其项目。 他对LinuxInsider表示：“我们的会员比例大约是美国的43％，欧洲，中东和非洲地区的33％，以及亚太地区的25％。我们很高兴与世界各地的行业领导者合作，希望他们在全球范围内进行合作。”

原文：The Linux Foundation (LF) has been quietly nudging an industrial revolution. It is instigating a unique change towards software-defined everything that represents a fundamental shift for vertical industries.

LF on Sept. 24 published an extensive report on how software-defined everything and open-source software is digitally transforming essential vertical industries worldwide.

"Software-defined vertical industries: transformation through open source" delves into the major vertical industry initiatives served by the Linux Foundation. It highlights the most notable open-source projects and why the foundation believes these key industry verticals, some over 100 years old, have transformed themselves using open source software.

Digital transformation refers to a process that turns all businesses into tech businesses driven by software. This change towards software-defined everything is a fundamental shift for vertical industry organizations, many of which typically have small software development teams relative to most software vendors.

Some of the world's largest, most regulated, complex and centuries-old industries, such as banking, telecommunications, motion pictures, public health, and energy have several essential things in common. These industries not only depend on open source, they are building open source into the fabric of their R&D models. They are all dependent on the speed of innovation that collaborating in open source affords, according to the LF analysis.

A key element differentiating companies in an industry vertical was open source adoption where companies shifted from being users to contributors. The report's data shows that top-quartile company adoption of open source has three times the impact on innovation than companies in other quartiles.

Over the last 20 years, the Linux Foundation expanded from a single project, the Linux kernel, to hundreds of distinct project communities. The LF developed the foundation-as-a-service model that supports communities collaborating on open source across key horizontal technology domains.

However, many of these project communities align across vertical industry groupings, such as automotive, motion pictures, finance, telecommunications, energy, and public health initiatives. They may have started as individual efforts looking for a neutral home at The Linux Foundation. But over time these communities found it useful to collaborate as the organizations supporting the projects expanded their collaboration to other areas.

The Linux Foundation has become the leading organization for spearheading the open-source model worldwide. Its projects have had contributions from over 250,000 developers and 18,000 companies. Over 2,000 members around the world support the Linux Foundation and its projects, according to Mike Dolan, senior vice president and GM of projects, The Linux Foundation.

"Our membership split is roughly 43 percent Americas, 33 percent EMEA, and 25 percent APAC. We have been fortunate to work with industry leaders from every corner of the world as they look to collaborate around the globe," he told LinuxInsider.