The realm of closed systems developed in secrecy with closely guarded algorithms and software engineering may become a thing of the past as with the advent of more and more open-sourced systems being deployed across the internet. Cloud computing is set to be ruled by open-sourced applications, developed by big businesses to cater to commercial and personal users. Even the world’s largest and most secretive companies have begun to develop open-sourced systems(in secret of course), as they may be seeing more than just a trend to allow them to have something in case the world does shift all of a sudden to open source.
IBM has been secretly developing a new open source project since the success of their Eclipse project, that has been going on within the walls of the computing industry pioneers development offices. Calling it “Community Source”, it will be their answer to the growing need for open-applications that are not only better in many cases but are also cheaper for cost still remains to be the main factor for the development, deployment and training with respect to web-based applications such as with many other projects from other software developers. Designed to be deployed over 100 projects and with 2,000 developers involved, deployment would become a breeze with the workings of the system already known to many.