• Consumerization-driven Open Source: Adopting a new philosophy to approach new problems
  One of the key trends in today’s IT world is consumerization. Consumer IT device usage and consumer behavior on the web is creating new kinds of demands and new kind of services to fill those demands…
  
  
• Open Source - Open Cloud?
  Cloud services need to built as “open” from day one…
  
  
• Community Driven Development—In House?
  Communities are one of the key driving forces behind the success of the open source business model...
  
  
• The Case for Developer Driven Open Source Governance
  How does your organization manage open source governance? Do you have a standard policy in place? Do you revisit it frequently? And, do you involve your developers in the development of your governance policy?
  
  
• Get Smarter About Open Source
  Open source has come a long way in the past few years, and great stories of open sources’ success abound…
  
  
• The Future is Wide Open
  Here we are, at the front of a new year and decade. For open source software, the refined fuel that has enabled many of the incredible information technology happenings of the previous decade, the future is, well, wide open...
  
  
• The Value of Open Source Software in Enterprise IT
  When talking to clients about the value of open source in enterprise IT, I explain that the benefit is more than just cost reduction. I emphasize that the value goes beyond lower cost...
  
  
• The Second Wave in Open Source
  The economic malaise currently gripping the globe has claimed many victims, but one area of business that has actually benefited is open source software adoption…
  
  
• Open Source—No Question of Quality
  I am probably biting off more than I can chew, within a brief blog post here. But, I wanted to capture a couple of points relative to the notion of the quality of open source software (OSS)…
  
  
• Commercial Open Source is Essential to Enterprise IT
  In the ideal world, open source software would be free of charge and its communities would operate on a service level agreement (SLA) scale. Reality is that open source software needs to adapt the rules of engagement of enterprise IT, since it should be managed like any other software…
  
  
• Participating in Blogging in the Open Source Community
  Where to begin? How about with a question: What is the importance of a blog post, especially one covering some aspect of open source? Ultimately it is an individual's way to be a "good" citizen in the wide world of information and, more importantly, knowledge…
  
  
• The Global Recession is Set to Trigger Greater Open Source Adoption
  To many businesses, open source software has long been considered a viable alternative to the traditional approach of paying license and maintenance fees for proprietary software. Many best performing businesses view open source on an equal footing with proprietary software, and now use it for critical applications…
  
  

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