Today, he said, “open source … is not so much about cost, as it is about innovation.” Users are driving innovation in the open-source sector and machine learning will benefit, according to Whitehurst , CEO of open-source software firm Red Hat . He said the idea of software containers, which allowed "pieces of applications" to be distributed to any sort of device, brought about solutions to many IT problems. Red Hat predicted the adoption of machine learning as a result of open-source innovation will rise from Only about 1% of software developers to about one third third during Ten years ago .
Users are driving innovation in the open-source sector and machine learning will benefit, according to Whitehurst , CEO of open-source software firm Red Hat . He said the idea of software containers, which allowed "pieces of applications" to be distributed to any sort of device, brought about solutions to many IT problems. Red Hat predicted the adoption of machine learning as a result of open-source innovation will rise from Only about 1% of software developers to about one third third during Ten years ago .