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Open Source: OS Database Usage and Spending is Way Up

By Dick Weisinger

It’s only been a year or two since our comments about analyst reports often overlooking or omitting software reviews for open source products. MySQL, for example, is frequently overlooked in the roundup analysis for database market share. Those days appear

Open Source: Everybody's Doing It, but Few Assess Potential Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Most companies are using Open Source. In fact, 85 percent of companies are now using open source and Gartner predicts that the remaining 15 percent of companies will begin adopting open source software within the next twelve months. But only

Open Source: Commercial Software no longer at the Leading Edge

By Dick Weisinger

A report out of Austrailia shows that Leading Edge companies there are selecting Open Source over Commercial proprietary software. Why? To get the most cutting edge technology. The report was done by Waugh Partners and surveyed 129 companies ranging in

Open source: "Not a business model"

By Dick Weisinger

The 451 Group has released a report called “Open Source is Not a Business Model“. Their study looked at 100 companies involved in Open Source ranging across the spectrum of “pure” Open Source like Red Hat and other vendors who

Open Source: Not only For Software

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has changed the landscape of software. Can it be a leveling force in other industries as well? India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is attempting to apply the concept of open source to the field of