Open Source Delivers

This blog was originally posted on SandHill.com. Editor’s note: My immediate reaction when I reviewed the findings of the recent 2013 Future of Open Source Survey was surprise at the high degree of change that has occurred in the industry since the 2012 survey. The survey, hosted by North Bridge Venture Partners together with Black Duck Software, [...]

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 [...]

The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence on everything from innovation, to collaboration among competitors, to hiring practices, is revolutionizing the way organizations work and do business. Check out the Open Revolutions: [...]

Last week I attended POSSCON 2013, the Palmetto Open Source (POSS) Conference in Columbia, SC.  It occurs to me that we are now in the Post Open Source Software (POSS) Era.  I don’t want to confuse this idea with the recent discussion of how some developers appear to be ignoring licensing and calling it Post [...]

Open source in government was the big theme in this week’s open source news. For the first time ever, the UK government formally announced its preference for open source software over proprietary. It was also announced that the Chinese government will work with Ubuntu to develop an open source operating system for the nation’s markets. [...]

What do GitHub, government, big data and the enterprise all have in common? Open source software (and being featured in this Weekly Wrap Up, of course)! Read on for open source news highlights from this week: On opensource.com, James Falkner dispelled the two main concerns he sees companies having when it comes to contributing back [...]

There was a great deal of debate this week over whether or not the city of Munich saved money by migrating its software to open source alternatives. The city originally estimated that its LiMux project would save them millions. However, a new report by HP on behalf of Microsoft claims that’s not the case. Get [...]

This week, Black Duck announced the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects from this past year. Open Source Delivers blogger Dave Gruber wrote a post on the trends that were identified in the Rookies list. Before we get to recent news from the rest of the open [...]

It’s illegal for public entities in Germany to take full advantage of open source software… at least until a (well-intentioned) law is revised. With technology moving faster than legal systems, legislatures often find themselves playing catch-up. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were once laws requiring cars to yield to horses on major highways. Real [...]

While product launches, announcements and keynotes from CES seem to have taken over the web this week, a (somewhat) unlikely sector has made a lot of noise around open source technology… government. Not to be outdone by the recent open source news from Ubuntu and Ford, multiple government agencies have made news of their own [...]