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Open Source: Governments Reassess Commercial Software

By Dick Weisinger

Matt Asay, former Novell executive, VP of Open Source vendor Alfresco, and champion of the Open Source movement has a summary of a research article by Jyh-An Lee called “Production: Policy Implications of Open Source Software”. The crux of the

Open Source: Is it Free or What?

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source? That’s free software isn’t it? That’s an answer you’ll frequently hear. But it’s only part of the answer; the complete answer is much more complex. And pinning down an exact definition of what Open Source is has been

Open Source: Steady Revenue Growth

By Dick Weisinger

By the standard of commercial software vendors, the Open Source software market remains small. An IDC study is forecasting that the standalone open source software (OSS) is poised to grow from $1.8 billion in 2006 to $5.8 billion in 2011,

Open Source: Shutting Out Commercial Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

Stuart Cohen is a man with a vision for the future of software.  One that seeks to minimize the dependence companies have on commercial IT software vendors.  His idea is that companies in a similar industry should band together and mutually

Open Source: Commercialization of Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Companies like MySQL, RedHat, and SugarCRM have shown that successful business models can be built around Open Source.  Their success has convinced other companies like Sun, IBM, and even Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft to participate in the Open Source model.  While