There's nothing like a new project to make you feel excited about life, and that's definitely how I've been feeling since I adopted an open source policy in my companies'…
Go to the networking and speaking events of any local startup community in America and you'll quickly discover a dominant theme: investment. Read any startup news site and you…
I just started a new job in marketing and social media at Red Hat. This is my first time working for an open source company, and I didn’t know what to expect. I knew what it…
In a recent article on Opensource.com, I introduced Data Geekery, the company behind jOOQ, and talked about the challenges we faced when transitioning our products from open…
After a full day at the annual meeting of the Opensource.com Community Moderators, it was time for the the last item on the agenda which simply said "Special Guest: TBD."…
Based on the success and effectiveness of the open source community, development organizations are taking a close look at the methods used within the open source world to…
Years ago when I interned at Red Hat, the company had an intranet traffic competition. Employees were encouraged to create or improve their page on the intranet, then post a…
It’s 2011. Everything we do, say, like, and click on is tracked and known to the higher gods of the inter-webs. At least that’s what my co-workers Ruth Suehle and Bascha…
This month, stories about people doing business the open source way have popped up in some surprising places. From an Israeli food manufacturer to the Wall St. Journal, here…
After almost three decades of development, open source software has firmly crossed over into mainstream use. Companies understand the unique value derived from software…
In 2002 I was working for Oculan, a company that founded an open source network management application platform called OpenNMS. Oculan used this platform as the basis for a…
CEO Jeff Walpole of Phase2 helps persuade businesses to consider open source as a viable solution. Particularly, Drupal. J eff says, "Phase2 invests an estimated $500,000…