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Open Data: Governments Widen Amount of Available Data, but Privacy Issues Complicate Efforts

By Dick Weisinger

Last month President Obama released an executive order that calls information held by the government a “valuable national asset” with value that multiples when it is easily accessible to the public.  The order requires that federal government information be open…

Cloud Computing: Oracle report Points to Cloud App Integration Issues

By Dick Weisinger

The ride to the cloud hasn’t necessarily been a smooth one for all businesses.  Oracle recently commissioned a report from Dynamic Markets to study the success with which the cloud is being deployed in the enterprise.  A key focus of…

Open Source: Does a Collaborative Process for Developing Ideas Imply Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

A goal of Open Source is that the model allows alliances to be built among randomly distributed remote developers.   The theory goes that the collective ingenuity of many remote contributors can focus together on improving and creating a much…

Enterprise Software: Complexities of Software Licensing

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like cloud, virtualization and mobile are raising issues and forcing change in the area of software licensing.  In today’s world licensing can be complex, particularly because so many software license agreements are still written for the world of single…

Open Source: Density of Software Defects Increase with the Size of the Code Base

By Dick Weisinger

Coverity was commissioned in 2006 by the Department of Homeland Security to do a study on Open Source code security.  Coverity has published an annual update of those results over each of the last seven years.  Each year the report…