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Our tech predictions for 2025 are in, and we even added some “anti-predictions” — trends that many in the IT field expect to play a significant role in 2025 but our tech experts think otherwise.
Now it’s the industry’s turn. With so many tech leaders and industry insiders willing to share what they believe 2025 will bring, we have broken down their predictions by category, with this article focusing on open source. ITPro Today’s coverage of open source in 2024 ranged from a developer’s guide to unlocking the power of open source LLMs, ways to reducing reliance on bad open source packages, and how the latest version of Java modernizes the open source language to how open source is powering 96% of modern apps.
But what do industry insiders see happening with open source in 2025? Below are their open source predictions:
OSS Will Balance Innovation with Governance Amid Rising Security Threats
We will continue to see widespread open source software (OSS) adoption coupled with increasingly sophisticated attacks on OSS by malicious actors. Organizations will continue trying to get foundational OSS governance in place, and leverage open source and commercial tools to help them start to understand their OSS consumption as well as make more risk-informed
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