At the inaugural Open Source Business Conference in 2004, the discussion centered on how to fund open source's survival. Just six years later, the OSBC conversation has taken a 180-degree shift to ...

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 ...

A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, reads, “The medium is the message.” It refers to the fact that the interpretation, value and meaning of ...

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

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 ...