Is open source a piece of the information technology stack, or is it the whole stack? What’s the business model around open source’s move up the stack?

Looking to answer these and other questions, SiliconANGLE Media is at Open Source Summit 2017, taking place in Los Angeles, California, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.) The four-day Linux Foundation event is a combination of LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen and the Open Community Conference, which in 2017 all now sit under one umbrella.

The debate continues whether the open-source software model has a future. In the current market, Red Hat Inc. has enjoyed significant success with its pure open-source software business model, but despite many trying, others haven’t come close to duplicating it. This hasn’t stopped many open-source startups trying and investors continue to pour as much as $3.5 billion into them between 2012 and 2015.

Some companies like Red Hat and Hortonworks Inc. have a pure open-source model, while others, like Cloudera Inc., have a mixed model, which Paul Miller, senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc., feels is “easier to sustain and easier to scale.”

While open-source projects face many challenges, customers continue to want it and executives agree it will continue to dominate infrastructure markets. “When I meet with some of the biggest companies in the world, I see that they care deeply about open source,” said Michael Howard, chief executive officer of MariaDB Corp. “They also care very much about the stability of the companies that are associated with that open-source product.”

Many large tech giants continue to throw their weight behind open-source projects. Microsoft Corp. joined the Cloud Foundry project in June, while Amazon Web Services joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a top-tier “platinum” member last month.

“Open source is pervasive, spanning data centers, Linux, networking. And the much broader application space for modernizing databases and big data and artificial intelligence solutions today have open-source contributions,” said Stu Miniman, an analyst with Wikibon Inc., owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE. “We’re looking at the continued push in open source, especially from the infrastructure perspective. Containers are interesting, where open source plays in the cloud world.”

Guest speakers at Open Source Summit include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, founder and director of HitRecord.org LLC; Christine Corbett Moran, NSF astronomy and astrophysics postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology; and Zeynep Tufekci, professor, “New York Times” writer, author and techno-sociologist.

Other speakers include Linus Torvalds, Linux Foundation fellow; Bindi Belanger, executive program director at Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.; and 13-year-old Tanmay Bakshi, algorithm-ist and cognitive developer.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at Open Source Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage for day one starts today at 11:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. PDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from Open Source Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from Open Source Summit will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Monday, Sept. 11

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at Open Source Summit include keynote speakers Christine Corbett Moran and Tanmay Bakshi.

Other guests appearing on theCUBE include Linux Foundation executives Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking, and Jim Zemlin, executive director, as well as Red Hat executives Matt Micene, technical product marketing, Linux and containers, and Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist at the office of technology.

Monday’s lineup also includes Brian Behlendorf, executive director at the Hyperledger Project; Aaron Welch, co-founder and head of product at Packet Host Inc.; and Chris Aniszczyk, executive director at the Open Container Initiative.

Tuesday, Sept. 12

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at Open Source Summit include Red Hat executives Steven Pousty, lead developer advocate, OpenShift Online, and Ross Turk, evangelism.

Other guests appearing on theCUBE include Ed Warnicke, distinguished consulting engineer at Cisco Systems Inc.; Elaine Yeung, student at Holberton School; and Patrick Chanezon, member of technical staff at Docker Inc.

Livestream of Open Source Summit

If you are unable to attend the Open Source Summit in Los Angeles, you can still catch the keynotes via a livestream on the Linux Foundation event page.

The keynote sessions take place on Monday, Sept. 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; Tuesday, Sept. 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.; and on Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. All times are in Pacific Daylight Time.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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