{"id":2144,"date":"2014-10-21T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2014-10-21T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:06:47","slug":"why-bosch-thinks-the-iot-needs-to-be-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/why-bosch-thinks-the-iot-needs-to-be-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bosch thinks the #IoT needs to be open-source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2014\/10\/17\/internet-of-things-open-source-iot-developers\">Matt Asay points<\/a> to a key slide in a recent Bosch presentation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/stefferber\/20141015-eclipse-webinarinfomodels\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a5.files.readwrite.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,w_620\/MTI1Mjg1MDM1NDIyMDY3MzMx.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Bosch_GmbH\">$40+ billion dollar company<\/a>, which concludes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2-5 major IoTS platforms (in next 5-7 years)<\/li>\n<li>At least one of them will be Open Source<\/li>\n<li>Bosch not able to develop one of these proprietary platforms alone and customers\/partners would not accept it<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion: Platform strategy with [open-source software]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think there are better reasons. Like making more innovation happen, more interoperability, and less lock-in, all of which is going to benefit everybody in the long term. And less possibility of information hoarding by the big cloud providers.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever everybody&#8217;s reasons, let&#8217;s make the internet of things predominantly open. That&#8217;d be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Asay points to a key slide in a recent Bosch presentation: Here we have a $40+ billion dollar company, which concludes: 2-5 major IoTS platforms (in next 5-7 years) At least one of them will be Open Source Bosch not able to develop one of these proprietary platforms alone and customers\/partners would not accept&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-iot","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}