OMA Open Source Industry Survey Results

Copyright © 2016

OMA OPEN SOURCE SURVEY RESULTS

May 2016 Elizabeth Rose, Marketing Director, OMA [email protected]

OMA’S MOTIVATION

Ø  Two years ago, OMA started on a journey to understand how it could improve adoption of its service-layer specifications.

Ø  Very quickly we found that Developers are key to widespread adoption.

Ø  We began to create an ecosystem of tools and collaboration around our specifications that allowed for Developers to implement the specifications more easily. •  https://github.com/OpenMobileAlliance/OMA_LwM2M_for_Developers/wiki

Ø  We also ran into the fact that the Developer community is highly oriented toward open source code, projects, tools and associations.

Ø  We launched the survey in an attempt to find better data about how our traditional telco-oriented members are approaching Open Source and how that direction compares to a wider sample.

Copyright © 2016 Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved.

SURVEY BACKGROUND

Ø  The purpose of the survey is to help OMA understand the role Open Source Software and Open Source Associations play in our industry. •  Understand prevailing attitudes regarding Open Source and Open

Standards. •  Examine what (if anything) OMA should be doing to better serve its

members and the industry at large in relation to Open Source projects. Ø  The survey population:

•  The industry at large as serviced by the OMA marketing database and social media

Ø  Survey responses – 419 individual responses including hundreds of text-based, open-ended answers.

Ø  A summary of the survey will be available on the OMA website and will be sent to those who participated in the survey


PUBLIC SURVEY OMA MEMBERSHIP BREAKDOWN


22%

55%

23%

Is your company a member of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)?

Yes No I don't know

Public

SAMPLING OF COMPANIES OF RESPONDENTS


COMPANIES OF RESPONDENTS


12%

9%

10%

29%

40%

Indicate your company's primary business:

Mobile operator Network equipment vendor Mobile device vendor

Software developer Other (please specify)

Public

OPEN STANDARDS DEFINITION


99%

1%

Agree

Disagree

Public

Open Standards are best defined as documents made available to the general public, which are developed (or approved) and maintained via a managed, collaborative, transparent, and consensus-driven process. "Open Standards" facilitate interoperability and data exchange among different products or services and are intended for widespread adoption. (adapted from ITU-T definition)

98%

2%

Agree

Disagree

OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS DEFINITION


Public

Open Source projects are best defined as programs in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design that is made available under an open source license. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and often share the changes among the programming community for such projects. At a high level, open source licenses allow users the freedom to use, modify, and distribute the source code without requiring any further permissions.

OS PROJECT PARTICIPATION


52%

25%

23%

Is your company participating in Open Source communities or projects that are relevant to

Telecommunications or IOT?

Yes No Not Sure

Public


Copyright © 2016 Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. All rights reserved. Public

If your company is participating in Open Source associations that are relevant to Telecommunications or IOT, please indicate which ones below:

Open Daylight

OpenStack

OPNFV

Open Connectivity Foundation (OIC)

AllSeen

Eclipse Foundation


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If your company is participating in Open Source associations that are relevant to Telecommunications or IOT, please indicate which ones below:

Public



41%

37%

19%

3%

How would you characterize your participation in these organizations?

We actively make contributions/pull requests to the code base. We are monitoring the progress of the code base. Our participation is more strategic than operational. We do not participate at all.

Public



Public

In your opinion, what are your company's goals within these organizations? Check all that apply:

•  Accelerate time to market for products/services

•  Facilitate interoperability with other products/services

•  Actively participate in the development of the code base

•  Developer enablement

•  Monitor technology advancement

•  None

•  Other (please specify)



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In your opinion, what are your company's goals within these organizations? Check all that apply:

Public

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My company participates actively in traditional standards bodies:

STANDARDS BODIES PARTICIPATION


Public

•  W3C, IETF and ETSI most often cited as adopting policies to accommodate open source software



57%

2%

29%

12%

Is your company's participation in Open Source organizations increasing, decreasing, or steady?

Increasing Decreasing Steady Don't know

Public

TELECOM & IOT SERVICES TRENDS


•  Machine to Machine / IOT products and implementations will

•  rely heavily on Open Source implementations

•  rely heavily on Open Standards based implementations

•  rely heavily on proprietary implementations

•  Next Gen Telecom / NFV network products and implementations will

•  rely heavily on Open Source implementations

•  rely heavily on Open Standards based implementations

•  rely heavily on proprietary implementations

Please give your opinion on the following statements:

TELECOM & IOT SERVICES TRENDS


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Please give your opinion on the following statements:

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

N/A

Public

TELECOM SERVICES TREND


In the scope of telecom services deployment, what do you think will be the dominant trend in the next several years?

•  Proprietary implementations of non standard specifications

•  Proprietary implementations of open standards specifications

•  Open source implementations of open standards specifications

•  Open source implementations not using open standards



0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

100%

Proprietary implementation of

non standard specifications

Proprietary implementations of

open standards specifications

Open source implementations of


Open source implementations not using open

standards


Increase

Decrease

Stable

No Opinion

Public

RAND + OPEN SOURCE


36%

4%

60%

Do you believe that RAND based specifications can be successfully implemented into Open Source projects?

Yes No Not sure

Public

Complexity and incompatibility of licensing terms often cited as the biggest hurdle.



0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

100%

Proprietary implementation of

non standard specifications

Proprietary implementations of


Open source implementations of


Open source implementations not using open

standards


Increase

Decrease

Stable

No Opinion

Public

OPEN STANDARDS + OPEN SOURCE


Agree 70%

Neutral 20%

Disagree 10%

Open Standards play an entirely different role than Open Source

Public



Agree 80%

Disagree 3%

Neutral 17%

The Open Standards community would benefit from a closer relationship to the Open Source community

Public

•  Early open source implementations of standards can provide feedback to improve the standard •  Open source implementations help with dissemination and proliferation of the standard

Agree 77%

Disagree 19%

Neutral 4%

The Open Source community would benefit from a closer relationship to the Open Standards community.



Public

•  Open Standards can help open source communities with overall architecture and system design considerations, quality, interoperability and roadmap.

QUESTION FOR OPERATORS


0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

We deploy Open Source software in our networks

Our network is hosted in an Open Source enabled Cloud

Open Source software will play an increasingly important role in our procurement activities

Open Source represents an opportunity to significantly decrease operating costs

Open Source software creates the potential for risks and we avoid using it in mission critical applications internally or in products that we sell or license

We rely on our vendors to mitigate any risks associated with Open Source code and we do not restrict their use of Open Source code in products we purchase from them

Open Source software adoption is a work-in-progress and we allow it in our network with caution

We do not use Open Source in our products

Please give your opinion on which statements most accurately reflect your understanding of your company's approach to

deploying Open Source software Agree Neutral Disagree

Public

OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS

What are the inhibitors to adoption of Open Source implementations?Ø  Issues surrounding licensing (esp. GPL)Ø  Industry understanding of Open Source licensingØ  Competitive issues and fragmentation Ø  Security Ø  Quality and robustness Ø  Maintenance and support


OMA’S STEPS

Ø  We would love to hear from you! Ø  Want to respond to the survey and share

your opinions? •  See

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OSSurveyR2


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