Open Source Delivers

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 like a guru. So far so good! A day later, you receive mail from legal through your boss, updating you that you can’t use these [...]

If you purchased a car recently, there’s a good chance that you searched for the car’s history online during your due diligence process. Using websites such as Carfax in North America (“show me the Carfax!) or Autotrader in Europe, users are able to gain transparency into the history of their car – including past accidents, [...]

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 a governance solution, the use of external code (like open source) by IT to build new applications, products and services can create unwanted technical, operational [...]

Imagine for a moment you’re the CIO of a Global 2000. You’re responsible for your company’s IT services and infrastructure, as well as how well technology investments support the overall mission of the business and its employees.  Your company has tens or hundreds of thousands of external customer relationships that depend on your systems, with [...]

Open source governance is a concept that is sometimes misunderstood or forgotten in new open source projects. Good open source governance can help maintain the long-term health of any open source community, and includes the process of writing down how decisions are made, rules of engagement for projects and how the rules can be changed [...]

Does your organization’s IT governance framework include the governance and management of open source components? We asked this question during a webinar with the ISACA organization and the responses were curious.  Full disclosure, the audience was made up of ISACA members, so most if not all webinar attendees are currently using COBIT as a governance [...]

The concept of super communities and industries organizing together to collaboratively solve problems is highly relevant to HP and our most important community – our customers. HP works closely – and continuously – with customers to help their businesses grow and open source software continues to play an increasingly important role. We believe it is [...]

When Olliance first developed the Open Source Maturity model, we originally had seven disciplines that were primarily internally focused.  However, it quickly became apparent that we needed to expand the maturity model and look beyond an organization’s internal software development processes, so we added Supply Chain Management as the eighth discipline. Managing the introduction of [...]

Despite all the snow that’s recently blanketed Germany, I was able to attend Enterprise Open Source Day in Nuremberg. Described by its organizers as an event for “open source enthusiasts and fans of the new, modern IT,” this year’s event focused on key trends including agile and mobile. These trends are of course not a [...]

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 [...]