Survey: Cloud Native Technologies Driving Open Source Software Adoption
Cloud Native Now, Friday, May 16th, 2025
A survey of 433 IT professionals published this week by OpenLogic, an arm of Perforce, finds that 95% are using open source software, with 40% using cloud and container technologies.
Among those IT professionals, 59% are using Docker, while 39% are using Kubernetes, the survey finds.
More than a quarter (26%) report that usage of open source software increased substantially in the last year.
Not surprisingly, more than half (53%) identified reducing costs as the primary reason for using open source software, followed by a third (33%) looking to reduce vendor lock-in came in second (32.86%) and adhering to open standards and interoperability (28%).