Open-source software is a great option if you’re looking to avoid paid tools from giant corporations, but not all open-source software are created equally. There are many reasons you might opt to use ...

When selecting software for your business, you may have the option of choosing from open-source solutions or proprietary software. Traditionally, proprietary software has been a popular choice due to ...

Supply chain security is rapidly emerging as a material risk for enterprise software buyers. Yet, despite best efforts from regulators to hold software publishers accountable, enterprise buyers ...

If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

Wondering whether you should use proprietary software like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Windows or open-source platforms like GIMP and Linux? Deciding between the two isn't easy. Both proprietary ...

The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS for short, because we need more acronyms in the world) was last week. The conference was intended as a ...

Six months after Day One you realize that several of the custom applications you inherited in an acquisition—approved by you during due diligence and recently incorporated into your IT environment—won ...

We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with ...

Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for ...

Spreadsheets may work for smaller commercial contractors, but they become harder to manage as service volume, technician teams, and job complexity grow. Connected field service management software can ...

As you can imagine I get asked by all types of companies and individuals to look at software. In fact, I probably get more requests to look at software than a lot of people even get email. And there's ...