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Open Source: Alfresco Content Management

By Dick Weisinger

Alfresco is offered as an open-source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system from Hyland Software. Alfresco is used commercially by more than 1300 organizations, like NASA JPL, Cisco, and the US Department of the Navy. Gartner said that “Hyland’s Alfresco platform…

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August 2nd, 2023
Category: Content Management, Data Management, Open SOurce
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Open Source: The Reputational Hit by the Log4J Flaw

By Dick Weisinger

Users were skeptical and slow to accept. Commercial vendors were scornful. Those were the early days of Open Source when many businesses were hesitant to adopt Open Source software. It took a while, maybe twenty years. But adoption of Open…

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July 24th, 2023
Category: Open SOurce
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Open Source: No Longer a Fringe Movement, But Security is a Worry

By Dick Weisinger

It’s taken decades, but Open Source software has moved from a fringe weird idea into mainstream software development and is routinely used in both small and large businesses. [In 2010, the Wall Street Journal wrote of an “open-source software movement,…

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May 30th, 2023
Category: Open SOurce
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Open Source: The Open Core Conundrum

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software is publicly accessible and can be downloaded, modified, and reused. It is developed in a decentralized way with peer collaboration and review. Open Core is a business model where a company drives creates an open-source software project…

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March 21st, 2023
Category: Open SOurce, Uncategorized
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Open Source: Both Hero and Villian of App Development

By Dick Weisinger

Applications based on open-source software are everywhere. The Linux Foundation estimates that most modern applications contain 70-90 percent open-source software. And by some estimates, 96 percent of all enterprise software is using some amount of open source. The advantage of…

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January 26th, 2023
Category: Open SOurce, Security
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