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Cloud Computing: What Does it Mean to Be an Open Cloud?

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises have long been captives of traditional on-premise software.  They’ve been trapped by vendors because  the expense and difficulty of migrating to a competitor is not a viable alternative.  So it comes as no surprise that as businesses gradually migrate

Open Source: OSS Leads new Software Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software continues to grow in terms of acceptance.  In fact, it has become the leader in software segments like cloud computing, mobile applications and enterprise mobility.  That’s based on a survey sponsored by North Bridge Venture partners and

Open Source: Applying the Success of Open Source to Hardware

By Dick Weisinger

The success of Open Source Software is now beginning to influence how people approach hardware too.  Get ready for an equivalent revolution on the hardware side. Open Source hardware (OSHW) follows the same philosophy and licensing of technical information for

Open Source: The Good, Bad and Ugly — Studies in Two Extremes

By Dick Weisinger

When top-class Open Source tools and applications (think software like Linux, Apache Web Server, PostgresSQL and PHP) went head to head against similar proprietary software, a recent survey found that Open Source bested or equaled the quality of their proprietary cousins.

Open Source: OS Quality Often Trumps Proprietary Alternatives

By Dick Weisinger

A decade ago most enterprises avoided Open Source software, but things have changed.   Right now Open Source use at enterprises stands at higher than 75 percent, and Gartner predicts that in just five years that 99 percent of enterprises