Open Source Can Help Build Greater Trust In AI | 2024 Predictions By Open Mainframe Project

Open Mainframe Project acts as a vendor-neutral home for collaborating on open-source technologies, building open-source software, and bringing the industry together to produce tooling, products, and insights that can benefit the entire ecosystem. John Mertic, Executive Director of Open Mainframe Project, shares his predictions for 2024.

While there was a lot of exploration around AI in 2023, we are now starting to see industries thinking about AI in terms of how it can help them be more effective and scale better. From the mainframe perspective, with many system administrators and programmers nearing the end of their career, many are thinking about how AI can be used to help the next generation get on board.

One of the biggest challenges of AI right now is trust and this is where open source can play a crucial role. Models and datasets can be hosted in a place where it is transparent, open, and collaborative. Collaboration will not just be limited to AI though and we will start to see people looking at their stacks and seeing what their opportunities to collaborate are.

One of the key challenges and opportunities within mainframe in the next year is getting decision-makers to better understand how to leverage open source to help accelerate their businesses. Education will play a pivotal role in helping organizations understand the value to the business to invest in open source. Particularly in light of the tech recession with tech organizations continuing to downsize and cut spending open source can be an asset.

Another key focus of mainframe in the coming year will be security and the Open Mainframe Project will continue to focus on how to best position the project to be proactive on the security front. Zowe is leading the way with a huge emphasis on security and is setting the standard for other projects and areas of open source within the mainframe.

Open Mainframe Project will continue to focus on getting mainframe on board and getting mainframe resources online. It will focus on how to better educate the mainframe world on open source. With some of their projects maturing and getting more feature-complete they are starting to get to a place where they are adding a lot of value. They will also continue to focus on telling the story of the modern mainframer and taking away some of the misconceptions around that.

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.

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