In today’s code development environment, projects often span multiple platforms, languages, and even geographical boundaries. Because of the many challenges of managing people throughout the ...

FEW IN IT continue to nurse doubts about the capabilities of open-source software. Yet when companies weigh open-source Web and database servers against costly commercial alternatives, open source ...

A pioneering startup called Merit Systems Inc. is getting a lot of attention today after raising $10 million to create a new economic model for software developers that it calls “open-source ...

Generally speaking, a rule repository is like a souped-up source code control system. In fact, rule-based systems that don’t include a rule repository of their own — including OPSJ, Jess, and JBoss ...