Open Source Delivers

This blog was originally posted on SandHill.com. Editor’s note: My immediate reaction when I reviewed the findings of the recent 2013 Future of Open Source Survey was surprise at the high degree [...]

When your name is Linus and you live in Finland, the social pressure to do something open source related is understandably enormous. And so I have spent the past few [...]

As I was reading Susan Dominus’s recent New York Times article about Adam Grant, a young PhD at Wharton School, and his research on prosocial behavior in the workplace, it [...]

You’ve just finished developing a great piece of code; you saved your company a bunch of money using open-source components to be faster and efficient. Your colleagues admire you and treat you [...]

All companies, regardless of size, know differentiating themselves from their competition is a key to their success.  On the Internet, everyone from one-man bands to multinational corporate giants rely on [...]

Although it may have seemed like the world revolved around the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference this week (technology, music and films are a winning combination), open source stories still [...]

At long last, two automotive industry behemoths have mapped out a joint route to serve the growing community of automotive app developers.  This week, Ford Motor Company announced that it [...]

The scrutiny that proposed software investments receive from senior executives has increased dramatically over the past decade, and, as such, a whole new set of disciplines has arisen.  Successful investments [...]

Yesterday I spoke with Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst serving application development & delivery professionals at Forrester, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  Please check out the video, below, for Jeff’s [...]

Congratulations on surviving Turkey Day and the spending frenzy of Black Friday AND Cyber Monday. Your reward is two weeks’ worth of open source news! Just in time for the [...]