Open Source Delivers

What does compliance mean to your IT and software development organization?  Most often compliance with external regulations and/or internal controls is treated as a secondary requirement for IT applications, their development and delivery.   It inevitably leads to cost overruns, delays and rework with little to no reuse.   The cost of complying with regulatory reform, such [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]