Andrew Aitken, Global Open Source Leader at Wipro, joins me to discuss the benefits and challenges that come with adopting open source as a large-scale enterprise organization.

In this episode, Andrew and I discuss the three stages of open source maturity from curiosity to full-scale adoption and mastery. Tune into this episode to learn more about the trigger events that cause large-scale enterprises to explore open source, as well as the barriers and legal challenges they must overcome to effectively adopt it, and most importantly - why Andrew feels it’s so important that every large-scale enterprise goes through this process.

Highlights:

Andrew introduces Wipro and explains what it means to be a Global Open Source Leader (00:52)
The challenges Andrew helps his clients solve in the world of open source (03:16)
How Andrew sees high-security companies like banks view and approach open source (04:28)
Do Andrew’s clients view open source software as being more, less, or just as secure as closed source software? (07:41)
The three different open-source maturity stages Andrew sees at large companies (10:47)
Why Andrew feels most large enterprises would benefit from reaching full maturation in their open-source strategy (14:52)
The biggest barriers Andrew sees companies run into when considering moving towards open-source maturity (17:53)
Is being enterprise-ready truly a requirement for an open-source start-up? (20:52)
The legalities of adopting open source as a large-scale enterprise (25:24)

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/opensourcestrategy/
Email: andrew.aitken@wipro.com
Company: https://www.wipro.com/

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