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 ...

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 ...

The world of open-source software is about to go through another tectonic change. But unlike earlier changes brought about by corporate acquisitions, this time it’s thanks to the growing series of ...

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 ...

Reducing software piracy in the United States by just 10 percentage points over the next four years could generate more than 32,000 new jobs, $41 billion in economic growth, and $7 billion in tax ...

The common practice of treating software as an expense is going the way of the dodo. Under new guidelines issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the American Institute of Certified ...

A new study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance says that countries around the world are leaving billions of dollars of economic growth on the table due to piracy. The study was carried out ...

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