As I prepare to wrap up my time at RedMonk, I wanted to complete the series of foundational posts I started in 2012 on our approach to understanding the tech industry [part 1, part 2]. Hopefully this aids any readers in addition to the next RedMonk analyst (we’re hiring!) in understanding the historical context.
“Open source licensing: obsolete or of importance?” on OSS licensing strategy.
“Development frameworks and the enterprise” on frameworks, productivity, and acceptance.
“Flightcaster and the future of asymmetric intelligence as a product” foreshadowing concepts like data moats years later.
“Beyond Cassandra: Facebook, Twitter, and the future of development” on companies going open by default with permissive licensing in an increasingly polyglot world (follow-up a year and a half later on the extracted software model).
“Why you should pay attention to Node.js” on opinionated software and enabling full-stack, single-language web development.
“The future of open data looks like … Github?” on data collaboration.
“Open core is the new dual licensing” on the lost goodwill in open-core business models.
“Even with Big Data, it’s hard to ask the right question” on getting insight from information.
“Platform as a Service: Current and future returns” on the gradual disappearance of blockers to enterprise adoption of new technologies, like security, stability, and compliance.