 Tom here from Lawrence Systems and we're going to talk about the state of open source and its use in the enterprise marketplace If you want to learn more about me and my company over to Lawrence systems calm If you like to hire a short project There's a hires button up at the top if you want to support the channel in other ways There's some affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services that we offer so the state of enterprise is a Well a report commissioned by red hat That's actually the title the state of enterprise open source software and I'm not going to go through I'll leave a link to this so you can read through the whole report and While all this is some feel-good stuff and a report that was commissioned by red hat by a third party to conduct with an interview with 950 it leaders it's obviously going to be a little biased because well I'm open source advocate so I'm talking about and so is red hat They're obviously you know built on open source But the argument that doesn't hold water that I hear is that open source really isn't used in the enterprise It's not ready for prime time and that kind of thing is well It's annoying and wrong and I see the you know people holding tight and especially the marketing and fud that went on Microsoft as well. I think mostly dropped the anti Open source marketing they seem to like Linux now that they figure out awake my money with it But that aside there's always been a lot of fear in the industry over it and I still get pushed back that when I talk about these open Source projects and and things like that that they're not really in use in big companies. So Okay, here's a couple things one. I can't see names of clients. We've worked with in some of them are very large that we've deployed things set up and consulted for because that's part of the agreement with them which the Weirdness of them finding us on YouTube hiring us for special projects and then saying we can't talk about those projects I'm perfectly fine with from a business standpoint. I would never violate their trust But obviously they have the concerns of talking about their infrastructure now I will say that the interesting way you can find out what companies are using though is to go ahead and take a look at The use of enterprise and I don't want to just be some person telling you and being vague because I hate that That's something that really annoys me about many people in industry They're always vague about we do these things we can't talk about what we do I like to talk about it, but obviously I don't want to violate any client trust, which is perfectly fine I don't problem with that at all and actually there's a work around to figure out how companies are using things and to prove my point To actually give you some numbers not some survey from red hat so let's actually talk about that and It's actually just by doing job searches if you do job searches for certain open source projects And I'll bring up a couple of them like PF sense. You'll find a lot of companies hiring for this Not just small companies big companies and someone go well. These are support companies blah blah blah You're not really digging into the bigger one. Okay? Have you heard of University of Michigan? They are looking for a cyber security software developer and specifically with some PF sense experience as outlined in the description here right there Knowledge of power select and PF sense They wouldn't be asking for someone who had PF sense experiences because they think it's a good thing to know But because it's in use you can probably assume that with companies and I do have this company as an interesting One in the list why well met life This seems enterprise enough seen as they're part of the S&P 100 component. They're an S&P 500 component They've been around for a minute, so I'm thinking they qualify as enterprise. Someone will argue only companies in the fortune ten or enterprise there's always someone who well the fortune ten isn't using this product, but they have a IT security service analyst that they want security onion experience in here Security onion metasploit wire shark. Oh look lots of bro and Zeke now What this tells me about met life is they're using the stack right here to Monitor their systems using entire open-source stack for security monitoring They may have some other paid commercial products in there But I will tell you that these are more deployed than you are aware when it comes to many of these open source ones out here It doesn't take long of going through these and finding all these different companies big and small that are using open source It's been a tradition to be very quiet about what you're using inside of your stack But it's also been a tradition of people that work in cyber security if you want to figure out if you're even doing a pen test simply doing a job search or Finding out a couple of employees names and looking what they brag about on LinkedIn or projects are involved And you're like oh they must be using it because this person's talking about it Even though they're not talking about how they use it at their company It becomes obvious that they use it at their company So what I wanted to really nail home is yes enterprise isn't just in the open source is actively being used It's not the pipe dream It was you would have probably been that correct person 20 years ago when I was saying you should use open source in the Corporate market and yes the commercial companies had a stranglehold on it as the old adage would go No one got fired for buying IBM which later turned into no one got fired for buying Cisco And they always went with the big trusted names of commercial software And the commercial calamity that sometimes comes with it open source isn't just a pipe dream anymore 20 years later of me beating the drum is wow I'm seeing it absolutely deployed at the highest levels We have consulted with many big companies and in seeing the deployments and their use of open source And matter of fact many of these companies contribute back to the open source They kind of get the ecosystem that contributing back and obviously the more noteworthy very public-facing ones are Facebook and Google You may not like some of their privacy problems and you'd be correct to do so they certainly have some challenges there But their contributions back to the code base of open source have been substantial and are important And of course there's tons of smaller companies really vested in this and I'm among them myself I definitely contribute back to the open source community and I'm very passionate about it in many ways so if you ever want to you know Beat up on the people who just keep telling you improve them wrong is really what it is the Proof is these companies not only are hiring for engineers and seasoned staff for these positions It's be if you're wondering why it's because they're using it So this is my little talk about this I just want to send this as a reply to people that keep telling me open source isn't ready or is not even used in a commercial World time. You're just a small business guy that doesn't know what he's talking about I've certainly heard that quite a bit and maybe I shouldn't give so much credence to people who tweet and Comment on YouTube or some you random email saying this on how I'm doing a disservice by talking about open source But it's not going anywhere It is Despite those few naysayers that really hold on the commercial products and many of those work for commercial product companies The world is changing it's changing fast and you can Google it for yourself and hit some job searches and take a look And you'll see it's pretty out there and a lot of big companies are using it I've done this video before and they didn't come up this time But for a while their MasterCard was looking for quite a few PF sense people wonder why thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to laurance systems calm fill out our Contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com where we can carry on the discussion about this Video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time