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Open Source: GPL is Losing Ground

By Dick Weisinger

While the GPL Open Source license is still the most popular license for Open Source products, it is losing ground. A year ago GPL was used for nearly 70 percent of Open Source projects, but now that number has dropped…

Records Management: Tear It Up Day

By Dick Weisinger

The University of Virgina went public with their efforts to comply with the state of Virginia Public Records act. The school declared June 27th as Records Management Day on campus and encouraged campus departments to ‘Tear it Up’. By law…

Open Source: Over 4 Billion Served

By Dick Weisinger

SourceForge, the Open Source Repository for more than 230,000 Open Source projects has hit a major milestone with the 4 billionth download of its hosted projects. The service has grown so that it now accomodates 1.8 million daily downloads. On…

Open Source: Enterprise Usage is Up, but Governance is Lax

By Dick Weisinger

More and more companies either by conscious policy decision or via other channels are using Open Source software. That fact in itself can be good, but the problem is that as many as 60 percent of companies using Open Source…

Technology: Bridging the Data Silo

By Dick Weisinger

Silos of information have been in the crosshairs of technologists for decades, but it seems like the more people try to eradicate silos, new ones continually pop up. For example, today’s first-generation SaaS applications are providing a fertile ground for…