Is software truly open source if you pay for additional features? Youranswer may depend on whether you side with the purists or the, ah,not-so-pure. A recent trend entering the debate involves the ...

Why open core software is bad for the FOSS movement. Nothing is inherently anti-business about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). In fact, a number of different business models are built on top of ...

Apache Cassandra’s highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database has a lot to offer the modern enterprise burdened by high-volume data. As its popularity and reliance has grown, its open core ...

Banks, long committed to keeping customer data private and their own code proprietary, are now opening up to fintechs and third-party developers in new ways. Open-source projects are underway at ...

What is the difference between open source and open core, and is one better for your business than the other? Back in 2013, CMSWire asked a simple question of experts in the field: "Which is better, ...

In one of our first ZDnet posts a couple years back, we proffered the question of whether open source was becoming the new default business model for enterprise software. It's only been a couple years ...

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Open source projects, companies and business models have been with us for more than two decades now. There are business success stories around Linux, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Apache Camel, and others that ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

Neha Narkhede believes building a technology business requires two things: an audience of developers and a revenue strategy. “How do developers find you and adopt you?” asks Narkhede, cofounder and ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. It’s difficult to overstate the role that open source plays in today’s technology-centric world, given that it ...

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...