Open source projects are fueling hiring, innovation, entrepreneurism and R&D across the world

It is now obvious that, open source projects are at the core great innovations within businesses and organizations of all sizes.

A new survey from NodeSource indicates that, 91 percent of enterprise software developers believe new companies will be created from open source projects.

89 percent said Node.js projects increase hiring, followed by:

• Docker - 62 %
• NPM - 28 %
• Spark - 26 %
• Git - 26 %
• Elasticsearch - 24 %
• MongoDB - 23 %
• Linux - 22 %
• MySQL - 15 %

One can also observe that, 28 percent even said that a surge in IPOs for open-source companies in the next year is extremely or very likely, and 79 percent say it is at least somewhat likely.