IBM Corp. and the city of Portland have developed a computer simulation model that seeks to coordinate various policy initiatives so they’re more successful. Read More »

Reading some stories recently, it would be easy to conclude that there was some sort of a decline in open source. I'll not pretend to have new and objective data on the subject, but having just returned from OSCON in the USA I have to say rumours of the death of open source are premature.... Read More »

As you may have gathered, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday recently, since it was publicly announced for the first time on 6 August 1991. Read More »

The last week of July was OSCON. Read More »

Recent conversations at OSCON, which I've attended since 2004, as well as observations through talks with vendors, users and developers in open source all indicate a common theme: With commercial successes for open source software come some community growing pains. Read More »

The software patent debate sometimes seems awfully one-sided. Passionate opponents carefully explain that software patents hinder innovation and supporters of the status quo ignore their arguments. Read More »

Delta Dental of Virginia, a benefits provider based in Roanoke, collects mountains of claims data, but until recently the company did not have business intelligence tools for non-technical employees to quickly turn the data into a competitive asset. Read More »

In this new TED talk Jay Bradner describes the development of a protein ligand drug aimed at BET bromodomains, a class of protein implicated in various forms of cancer. What is striking about Bradner’s work – and that of his colleagues – is that it was published, not patented or kept secret. Read More »

People debate how “open” various open-source projects [are] all the time. In fact, the very way I made that statement is charged because I didn’t include the phrase “free software.” Sometimes these arguments get more serious though. Read More »

Open source vendors can benefit from business ecosystems that form around their products. Partners of such vendors can utilize this ecosystem for their own business benefit by understanding the structure of the ecosystem, the key actors and their relationships, and the main levers of profitability. Read More »