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Innersourcing: Enterprises’ Closed Version of Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Inner source.  It’s not something related to zen or meditation.  It’s a term coined by Tim O’Reilly that describes how enterprises are applying open source practices to enterprise software development. Business development teams are becoming more collaborative, shipping early before software

Open Source: Businesses Readily Adopt Open Source but Often Don’t Track its Use or Patch Vulnerabilities

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software permeates infrastructure and software development projects almost everywhere.  A survey by Black Duck and North Bridge found that 65 percent of organizations now say that they’re using open source as part of their development and 55 percent

Open Government: Feds try to Reduce Duplication and Encourage Innovation with Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Once shunned by governments, open source code is becoming a priority within federal government.  A new policy introduced by Federal CIO Tony Scott calls for all software written within the government to be available to all other federal department or agency.

Open Source: Fuel Powering Innovation and Digital Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source continues to make an impact on both IT and software development. Open source innovation has led to the development of new markets over ten times during the last twenty years, said David Senf, vice president at IDC Canada.

Open Source: Unpatched Vulnerabilities Show a Dark Side to Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has great benefits, as we reported a couple of weeks back on the results of Black Duck’s Open Source survey.  Benefits like stability, quality, flexibility, no vendor lockin, and speed of development were frequently cited as reasons why