Open Source Delivers

In recent news, economists at Stanford have proposed the use of open source software to determine potential offshore wind turbine sites by evaluating for optimal energy production. With open source [...]

There are certain terms that I wish I coined, and “Zone of Chaos” is one of them.  Alas, I need to attribute this gem to Capers Jones, and specifically to [...]

Does your organization’s IT governance framework include the governance and management of open source components? We asked this question during a webinar with the ISACA organization and the responses were [...]

Building better software faster by automating, managing and auditing the selection, use and governance of open source across the application lifecycle isn’t just a lofty goal, it’s a prerequisite for [...]

Picture this: You’re the developer who has improved the efficiency of your application development team at a large bank.  Your boss loves you, you’re expecting a nice bonus and, with [...]

When showing pictures of Prague to my kids, they thought it looked like Duloc (you know, the Shrek movie), and I thought to myself, “Self, was this the perfect show [...]

Steve O’Grady and team from analyst firm Redmonk put on a very different day-long event (Monktoberfest, the “Developer Conference about Social, Tech and Beer”), at a very different venue (the [...]

Linux data points are plentiful these days, especially as we celebrate its 20th anniversary year.  With this in mind, we challenged ourselves to think about what data Black Duck’s Knowledgebase [...]

In the immortal words of Danny Zuko: “This car could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic. Why, it could be Greased Lightning!”  With praise like that, I have to wonder what he [...]