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Fortify Software has a good PR agency. Just as the open source software (OSS) community gathers for OSCON the week of July 21 and LinuxWorld on August 4, the security-software-and-services company has released a damning report on OSS security. It's... Read More..

I used an open-source-software (OSS)-related session at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this week to put some faces to names and voices that have appeared here on ebizQ via telephone-conducted podcasts and/or interviews. The Boston-based Optaros OSS consulting firm moderated a... Read More..

Attention all open source software (OSS) projects and organizations: I am researching the next in a series of OSS-related research articles for ebizQ. This month we are looking for open-source software and projects specific to master data management (MDM). I... Read More..

Many people much younger than me know the name of the Lone Ranger's horse even though the TV show went off the air in 1957 (according to Wikipedia). The concept of the silver bullet (as in "there is no silver... Read More..

No, let me rephrase that headline. Alfresco wants to make its software THE enterprise content management (ECM) commodity. Scratch the "open source;" Alfresco's open source development model and terms and conditions are a means to an end by which Alfresco... Read More..

In recent posts on this blog and across the blogosphere, there is much discussion about the increasing penetration of open source into enterprises. The illustration above, from a year-end open source software (OSS) report available here on ebizQ, explains... Read More..

UPDATED 4/4/2008: I talked to Ian Howells of Alfresco, the U.K-based enterprise content management software maker the other day as I promised to do when I wrote this post back in February. I'll put up a separate post on my... Read More..

Attention all open source software (OSS) projects and organizations: I am researching the next in a series of OSS-related middleware research articles for ebizQ. This month we are looking for open-source software and projects specific to an event processing--or complex... Read More..

I met up with Jonathan Marsh of WSO2 last week; I introduced you to WSO2 in mid 2007 via a Talking to… interview with Paul Freemantle. Jonathan’s role is Director of Architecture for Mashup Technologies but he prefers to call... Read More..

UPDATED 3/6/2008 to better explain why open source helps users if it turns out they don't like what Buytaert/Acquia does with it. Dries Buytaert is the creator and project lead of the popular Drupal open source content management software that... Read More..