Open Source Delivers

Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the great pleasure of taking part with fellow industry experts from North Bridge, Forrester, Thomson Reuters, Hortonworks and Acquia. Following the webinar, I had a chance [...]

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 take on the following: Cultural changes in development, and in particular, why developers write code outside their day jobs.  Jeff reports that 70-80 percent of [...]

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  In this video, Mike provides a great overview of: Changes Eclipse is making, including broadening their technical focus beyond tooling and Java into JavaScript, C, C++, and PHP, and a new focus [...]

Compared to many engineering disciplines, software development – which began in earnest in the mid-20th Century – is still in its youth.   The science and art of software development have progressed in two broad threads: the tools themselves (IDEs, compilers, languages, frameworks, build/CI systems, etc.) and the development methodologies employed – which together determine the [...]

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 between OSS and business are drawn and redrawn, trends spotted and explored, and OSS commercialization wisdom is shared.  Other conferences are important for many reasons; [...]

Click Here to read this blog in Chinese - 点击这里阅读这篇文章在中国 The arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the U.S. for trade talks is an opportune time to reflect on the rapid changes happening in China’s technology sector, particularly the rise of free and open source software (FOSS) as a key part of the innovation [...]

This week’s protests by many online sites including Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and others reflect the deep concerns of many Internet properties over two bills pending in the US Congress – the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the House, and the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) in the Senate.  Both bills are intended to prevent foreign-based [...]

Open source software has truly gone mainstream in the past decade, and is now a mainstay of development in software companies, electronics and embedded systems, digital media, and increasingly, in enterprises’ IT applications.  The advances of the past few years have been incredibly rapid, and effective use of open source in software development can indeed [...]