Progress Continues on Industrial Open Source Software With demand for interoperability in the industrial software and hardware space continuing to grow, the Eclipse Foundation releases a report on the status of the organization’s work in several areas affecting industrial technology. Feb 17th, 2021 The Eclipse Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit corporation created to foster a vendor-neutral approach to open source innovation in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space, has released its 2020 annual community report. The report charts developments within the organization itself as well as broader industry trends relating to open source software and automation as a whole. The shift away from proprietary technology and toward multi-vendor interoperability comes partially in response to the increasing complexity of software applications. Whereas it once took thousands of labor hours to write the code for a software product line-by-line, doing so today is considered excessively costly and time consuming. This move has been enabled by large, online libraries of pre-existing code, which have helped lower the barrier to entry for developers.