Survey Surfaces Increased Reliance On Open Source Software To Build Apps
devops.com, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
A survey of 712 IT professionals finds that programming languages and frameworks (49%), followed closely by ​databases and data technologies (46%), DevOps/GitOps/DevSecOps tooling (39%) and cloud and container technologies (38%) are the areas where open source software is most widely adopted.
Conducted in collaboration with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) consortium and the Eclipse Foundation, the survey also finds nearly half (49%) of respondents reporting they have increased use of open source software in the last year, with 21% describing that increase as significant. Nearly half (49%), however, said usage of open source software remained the same in the last year.
Not surprisingly, the primary reason cited for adopting open source software was reduced costs derived from no licensing fee (62%), followed by avoiding vendor lock-in (55%).