The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company. The acronym refers to the foundational foursome of the open-source movement: the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and, collectively, the Perl, PHP and Python programming languages. Development tools such as Eclipse and application servers such as... Read More

“The day of the open-source license as tribal flag or corporate monument will have to come to a close,” the Open Source Initiative’s board says about its new guidelines on granting new licenses and classifying existing ones.The Open Source Initiative board on Wednesday adopted a new way of approving open-source licenses, as well as... Read More

Despite many articles talk about Open Source business models, and some papers describe also possible taxonomies of open source business models, none of them is analyzing in depth all components which describe the business logic of a specific firm. FLOSSMETRICS has assessed a list of 120 companies – resulting in the biggest empirical analysis of the... Read More