Research and Innovation
Long live open innovation
By allowing anyone to contribute and fostering community development, Open Source is opening up new doors for R&D. For Thales, it is a great opportunity to leverage this new ecosystem for digital transformation.
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The future will be open or will not be!
Long considered the reserve of specialists, open source has come of age and gone mainstream in modern information systems.
More than ever before, open-source development – not only for software but for hardware too – has come to play a crucial role in guaranteeing our sovereignty and ensuring our independence from proprietary systems.
Sébastien Lejeune at the Thales Research & Technology lab in Palaiseau © Thomas Behuret. Thales
Opening up to innovate better
Sébastien Lejeune is Thales Open Source Community Manager.
"By breaking free from proprietary solutions, sharing knowledge, making source code freely available and allowing anyone to contribute, the open-source model stimulates innovation and has upended our vision of R&D by exploiting the concept of community development. In the space of a few years, open source has come to play a crucial role in enterprise IT strategies.
Companies have understood that it's in their best interests to share everything that can be shared.
Daniel Glazman - VP, Key Technical Domain Software
Tomorrow’s technology: Open Innovation
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