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 ...

How much do you really pay for software? For the history of computing, the answer has been, "It depends." For developers, the answer has long been, "Who cares?" There are good reasons, however, for ...

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 ...

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 19, 2001 — Software piracy costs the software industry billions of dollars in lost revenue every year, and tens of thousands of lost jobs. The numbers are considerable in the best ...

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 ...

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 ...