Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.

Recent discussions about SAP's Business byDesign have highlighted the importance of multi-tenancy as a component of on-demand software economics.

The world of open-source software is about to go through another tectonic change. But unlike earlier changes brought about by corporate acquisitions, this time it’s thanks to the growing series ...

Open-source software gets a lot of credit for its role in channeling innovation, but it's really open-source economics that should get the credit, according to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

Reducing software piracy in the United States by just 10 percentage points over the next four years could generate more than 32,000 new jobs, $41 billion in economic growth, and $7 billion in tax ...

Software-centric products place a new level of responsibility squarely on the shoulders of OEMs. It's no longer acceptable—or sustainable—to manage smart products with a hands-off strategy.

Sun Microsystems developers Petr Hrebejk and Tim Boudreau say the economics of open-source software will break Microsoft's operating system hammerlock and replace it with what they describe as an ...

Titled the "Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU," the study looks at the role of ...