Development speed and total cost of ownership continue to be the most cited benefits of open source, according to our latest “Open Source in the Enterprise” study. Both are quantifiable, but it can be difficult to draw a causal relationship to specific corporate initiatives promoting open source. This explains why “increased speed and agility in the development cycle” dropped from 58% in 2018 to 39% in 2020 as a top benefit of the respondent’s open source program office (OSPO). “Faster time to market with new products” experienced a similar drop. Both of these categories describe innovation, which is also hard to measure, but is the top benefit of OSPOs, partly because it is a broadly used way to gauge business performance.
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