CONSUMPTION OPPORTUNITIES Briefly exploring the specifics, the productivity benefits of AND CHALLENGES open source software are apparent. There is a great wealth Our survey explored a broad range of motivators, of quality open source software available for free. Modern challenges, and opportunities relating to open source software development is just as much about sourcing and consumption. We asked about the primary motivators assembling suitable components as it is writing new code for increased open source consumption, with the results from scratch. Building on solid open source foundations is FIGURE 14. The primary reason cited for increasing shown in clearly a much more productive way to create software and consumption is to improve productivity, although this was business value. by quite a slim margin, followed by “avoid vendor lock-in” and to make their organization an “attractive place to work,” Regarding vendor lock-in, an equivalent question in a survey with just 4% between the positive sentiment expressed for targeted at a cross-industry demographic within Europe these three answers. Notably, most of the answers had a showed that this was a leading motivation by a significant strong positive sentiment, indicating that there is a breadth margin (13% greater sentiment than the next highest). Vendor of positive reasons to adopt open source software. lock-in refers to the situation where you are essentially FIGURE 14 Motivating factors that increase the consumption of open source My organization should increase its consumption of OSS in order to: Improve productivity 1%3% 14% 31% 51% Avoid vendor lock-in 2%2% 16% 31% 49% Be a more attractive 1%2% 19% 31% 47% place to work Lower cost of ownership 2% 7% 19% 27% 46% Reduce time to market 2% 5% 18% 31% 45% Improve security 4% 9% 21% 24% 43% Strongly disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree nor disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree 2022 FINOS STATE OF OSS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES SURVEY, Q17, SAMPLE SIZE = 199-203, DKNS EXCLUDED THE 2022 STATE OF OPEN SOURCE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES 23