The fun and games in the world of commercial open source software never stop. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their ...

Meg McCarthy and Gary McGraw, Ph.D. also contributed to this article. For enterprise executives, perhaps the best way to think of software development is as a specific kind of manufacturing process, ...

Recent discussions about SAP's Business byDesign have highlighted the importance of multi-tenancy as a component of on-demand software economics. Fellow Enterprise Irregular blogger, Anshu Sharma, who ...

Open-source software gets a lot of credit for its role in channeling innovation, but it's really open-source economics that should get the credit, according to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. Matt Asay ...

IT asset management needs to keep up. Provided byThoughtworks Early 2022 has brought with it an unusually high level of commotion in the open-source community, largely focused on the economics of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, ...

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, 56 percent of Global 2500 IT executives surveyed said their companies were using open-source software--that is, software in which the source code is ...

Software vulnerability management has emerged as a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, combining technical strategies for identifying and patching vulnerabilities with sophisticated economic models ...

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