Upcoming software purchases should no longer be one-time contracts; they're living partnerships built on shared data and trust.

Software buyers are second only to teenage clothing buyers when it comes to being fickle. The best vendors are those that capture as much market and mindshare as possible while the products are still ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This question is a paraphrasing of remarks made by George Berkeley in his work A Treatise Concerning the Principles ...

Any software developer that has been in the game for more than a few Java release cycles inevitably has stories to tell about the best and worst software products used. From servers that literally ...

Nearly three decades ago, before the rise of Great Plains Software as a powerhouse, before the billion-dollar deal that brought Microsoft to Fargo, a 26-year-old Doug Burgum got a glimpse of the ...

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...