In the long run, the commercial adoption of Linux may well go down as the open source movement's greatest achievement. Linus Torvalds is often wrongly labelled the head of the open source software movement, as well as the creator of the Linux...
Yet OMG is a body that has done much to reshape the development landscape over the past decade. A decade ago, UML (Unified Modelling Language) was a nice idea that looked like the way program design ought to go, but which had little or no bearing...
SIPA's move comes at a time when Microsoft is coming under growing pressure from the open source movement in many countries. A Thai government agency is driving the adoption of open source software in government departments, not-for-profit...
Were this not so, government would be making more use of the concepts developed by the open source movement. Yet not only does government make little use of open source, it has done nothing to utilise the fruitful ideas that have vitalised the...
Perhaps the most vocal advocate of the movement is Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff, who believes consumers and businesses will eventually do away with shrink-wrapped software altogether. I don't know how long it will be before people...
While more than half of organisations are already making plans for introducing SOA, large enterprises are being held back by the weight of their IT legacies, which have grown dramatically in the past decade as they have adopted ERP, CRM and many...