Open Source Delivers

Since 2002, Alcatel-Lucent has operated an intranet to educate employees about FOSS and to foster collaboration and decision-making.  This “best practice” is well worth emulating.  To learn more, I interviewed Alcatel-Lucent’s Michel Ruffin, PhD, who works as Software Coordination Manager in the Bell Labs Corporate CTO Department. Jim Berets:  Where did the idea for Alcatel-Lucent’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ask any non-IT executive from a major enterprise whether they would consider open source to improve their current business operations or play a part in their long-term strategies and you will probably get one of the following responses: Is that the same as outsourcing? We openly compete all our acquisitions and procurements Sorry we are [...]

Developers spend a lot of time searching for things, including FOSS.  So, a question I always ask executives from companies looking for guidance into how to effectively manage open source is “How do your developers go about finding open source software for inclusion in their projects?”  Usually, the answer varies from the honest “I don’t [...]

We recently hosted a customer advisory board (CAB) meeting in Paris with many of our European customers to discuss best practices, trends and the future of FOSS in their organizations. Some of their observations shed interesting light on FOSS best practices, for example: Automation Capabilities We had an in-depth discussion about best practices for rolling [...]

I just had the pleasure of speaking at the first annual FOSS Con, Korea. The Korean software industry, self-admittedly, may be slightly behind the west in open source governance, but there is admirable momentum and a clear desire to be world-class in this respect. The event was organized by Charley Tschoy and J.B. Park, attorneys [...]

Talk to pretty much any corporate IP lawyer anywhere in the world and they will be able to articulate why it is important to put controls in place to govern the use of open source. I just completed a joint legal seminar in Tokyo with Mark Radcliffe of DLA Piper and, as expected, everyone was [...]

South Korea is at the leading edge of adopting new and exciting information technologies powered by open source software. The South Korean government has recently begun to consider alternatives to traditional software sourcing from international software companies, and free and open source software is emerging as the solution to increased social and political advances for [...]