With provider burnout looming as a key challenge post-pandemic, the impetus is increasingly on hospitals to explore measures to improve the working environment. Open core, an innovative hospital ...

Is software truly open source if you pay for additional features? Youranswer may depend on whether you side with the purists or the, ah,not-so-pure. A recent trend entering the debate involves the ...

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Rackspace Hosting and NASA made headlines by announcing an open source cloud software project earlier this week. Some observed that OpenStack could be the beginning of the end for open-core business ...

Why open core software is bad for the FOSS movement. Nothing is inherently anti-business about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). In fact, a number of different business models are built on top of ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. “We allow customers to ...

The history of open source has seen many different approaches to balancing an open source project and generating revenue. Dual licensing, proprietary update systems, membership dues, soliciting ...

Open source projects, companies and business models have been with us for more than two decades now. There are business success stories around Linux, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Apache Camel, and others that ...

What is the difference between open source and open core, and is one better for your business than the other? Back in 2013, CMSWire asked a simple question of experts in the field: "Which is better, ...

Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey has a simple way of defending when companies should pay for components in his open core Java-based caching software, Ehcache. Operators pay. Developers come in free.