The fun and games in the world of commercial open source software never stop. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their ...

The world of open-source software is about to go through another tectonic change. But unlike earlier changes brought about by corporate acquisitions, this time it’s thanks to the growing series of ...

At the inaugural Open Source Business Conference in 2004, the discussion centered on how to fund open source's survival. Just six years later, the OSBC conversation has taken a 180-degree shift to ...

Efficiency is scaling the list of high priorities amid growing economic and technologic changes. We know the AI boom is happening, but few companies are seeing – or doing – any real-world application ...

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, 56 percent of Global 2500 IT executives surveyed said their companies were using open-source software--that is, software in which the source code is ...

Recent discussions about SAP's Business byDesign have highlighted the importance of multi-tenancy as a component of on-demand software economics. Fellow Enterprise Irregular blogger, Anshu Sharma, who ...

I've started my economics degree, and it is pretty boring so far (only been to two classes, hope they pick up the pace soon). <BR><BR>Anyway, I'm lazy, I don't want to draw graphs and tables by hand.