About a year ago, I started sharing thoughts about open technologies. I thought I’d recap key developments in the category over the past year here and also offer some predictions for 2017. I’d welcome your comments.

Bob Wiederhold is the CEO of Couchbase, an open source NoSQL database company founded in 2009. While many databases startups have come and gone in that time, Couchbase has raised more than $140 million in venture capital and counts some of the world’s…