Open Source Delivers

I had the opportunity to spend the past few days at EclipseCon Boston, talking with many seasoned, talented open source developers. One of the great things about the Eclipse crowd is [...]

It’s been almost six years since the release of GPL version 3.  During the revision process, which lasted over two years and veered toward walk-away controversies more than once, hundreds [...]

In a previous posting, I argued that open source governance is an essential IT process and a natural extension to existing IT governance.  Without the visibility and controls provided by [...]

We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless.  But what about [...]

Mergers and acquisition activity is beginning to pick up again after a few lean years. In my job as open source advocate at Dell, which has acquired a number of [...]

SourceForge.net is the world’s largest open source software development website, with the largest repository of open source code and applications available on the Internet. I recently completed an analysis of [...]

Between hosting its 2012 Summit and a big acquisition, Red Hat has had a busy week! Jim Whitehurst’s opening keynote presentation at the Red Had Summit took a retrospective look [...]

Ever since software development emerged as a formal discipline, the subject of quality has been on the minds of developers and managers alike.  While everyone agreed that creating and releasing [...]

An event I look forward to each year is the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).  It’s an event I’ve attended for many years, and is the event where the links [...]

You know that analyzing your code for known open source is important. But now what? What’s the best way to integrate open source code analysis into your software development lifecycle? [...]