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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Ryd is CEO & cofounder of Northern.tech, a device lifecycle management leader with a mission to secure the world's connected devices. Over the past decade, industries shifted from ...

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 ...

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