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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With 99% of all commercial code bases containing open-source software, open source rules the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outdated or abandoned open source components are persistent in practically all commercial software, putting enterprise and consumer applications at risk from security issues, license compliance ...

In order to set up an analytics environment, organizations need to make decisions about the hardware and software technologies to be adopted. Hardware-wise, big data requires specialized ...

I know it's ridiculous, but I have a very hard time paying for software. I love being thrifty, but the bias that I (and I suspect many of you) have against paying for ...

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 ...

Commercial software code bases are significantly more secure than Open Source, according to the latest Coverity scan open source report. Static analysis defect density scans by the software quality ...

Predicting project costs accurately is essential for contractors and construction companies, and it can be made possible using the right estimating software for commercial construction. Such software ...