Building Open-Source Strategy for Enterprise Organizations with Andrew Aitken

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/