Open Source rules the Big Data space

Forrester predicted earlier this year that we’d see more open source data tools find their way into the enterprise this year, thanks in no small part to the fact that open source rules the Big Data space.

James Kobielus, who is now a Big Data evangelist for IBM but was then an analyst for Forrester Research, made the case for why the enterprises doors are now open - for open source.

... data scientists are graduating with a solid knowledge of R — an open source language for Big Data — but little knowledge of proprietary, GUI-based systems.

Primarily, when experts have talked about open source adoption, it’s been all about three points:

•   Cost savings.
•   The ability to build on what’s there.
•   A faster product evolution, thanks to the community.