News: OSBC 2010: Leveraging Open Source through the Enterprise and beyond the Firewall

Until recently, few enterprises were using open source software for back office applications, such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management. But last month, an IDC survey of Western European companies found that nearly ten percent were using open source enterprise software.

We all know that lots of companies use open-source software. Trying to get a handle on what open-source programs they use can be a little harder. That's why OpenLogic, an open-source software support company's recent report on both their growth and what programs businesses are asking for help with ...

OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open source software support and governance solutions for hundreds of open source packages, today announced it is conducting a survey to help identify how well companies understand their use of open source and their obligations to comply with open source licenses.

IBM wants to be an open-source software supporter, but only when it suits it. The giant tech company was accused of breaking its pledge to not pursuit open-source companies and projects that might be infringing on some of its many patents. Yet, earlier this week, it did just that, sending TurboHercules, a company that makes an open-source mainframe ...

Open Source codes are used by almost everyone in the tech industry and that is the reason why, large companies release different parts of their application with different licenses. The world would be a really bad place without Open Source software with people writing their own shitty implementations or stealing codes from others.

Facebook's release of HipHop as open source underlines the fact that along with Google, Facebook has become one of the most powerful demonstrations that free software now scales way beyond proprietary offerings. In fact, HipHop handles over 10 billion PHP-based pages views every day, on average - a ...

SOS Open Source is an automated methodology to qualify and select open source software that uses data from directories, forges and meta-forges and creates comprehensive information.

The question "Why open source?" really encompasses two questions for the enterprise to consider: "Why use open source software?" and "Why should I develop my software in a community-based, open source way?" Who should care about the answers to these questions? Well, virtually everyone.