OpenSSF publishes a case study on how IBM turns open source participation into enterprise and career value, built around a Big Thoughts, Open Sources conversation with IBM Enterprise Security Executive and OpenSSF Governing Board member and former chair Jamie Thomas. Thomas traces IBM’s investment in Linux contributors and its opening of Java tooling through Eclipse to the portability gains and production-support questions that followed, and frames the lesson as stewardship: ‘If you are a direct consumer of open source, do it with intent.’ The piece cites a $5 billion IBM and Red Hat commitment to Project Lightwell, an AI-driven security model, the roughly $34 billion equity value of IBM’s 2019 Red Hat acquisition, and Red Hat’s $3.4 billion in fiscal 2019 revenue, and describes OpenSSF as the venue where IBM brings enterprise security needs into discussions with startups, maintainers, and other software consumers.
How Does IBM Turn Open Source Participation Into Enterprise and Career Value?
OpenSSF publishes a case study on how IBM turns open source participation into enterprise and career value, built around a Big Thoughts, Open Sources conversation with IBM Enterprise Security Executive and OpenSSF Governing Board member and former chair Jamie Thomas. Thomas traces IBM's investment in Linux contributors and its opening of Java tooling through Eclipse to the portability gains and production-support questions that followed, and frames the lesson as stewardship: 'If you are a direct consumer of open source, do it with intent.' The piece cites a $5 billion IBM and Red Hat commitment to Project Lightwell, an AI-driven security model, the roughly $34 billion equity value of IBM's 2019 Red Hat acquisition, and Red Hat's $3.4 billion in fiscal 2019 revenue, and describes OpenSSF as the venue where IBM brings enterprise security needs into discussions with startups, maintainers, and other software consumers.
Source: OpenSSF