Why you need to evaluate sustainability
When you’re considering free and open source software, whether for procurement or as a basis for developing new software, you need to take account of sustainability. This means evaluating whether the...
View ArticleOpen source in education: where does the change need to happen?
In our recent survey on free and open source software in the UK education sectors, we asked colleges and universities for their main reasons for not selecting an open source solution according to 12...
View ArticleOpen Source Options for Education updated
We’ve just updated our Open Source Options for Education list, providing a list of alternatives to common proprietary software used in schools, colleges and universities. Most of the software we list...
View ArticleOpen source policies in UK universities and colleges – what’s changed over...
As a result of the OSS Watch National Software Survey, we now have 10 years of survey data on open source in universities and colleges in the UK, so we can look at some long term trends. Today I’ve...
View ArticleIs Open Source Insecure?
tl;dr: Open Source is inherently no more or less secure than closed source software. For a more thorough answer to this question, we’ve just updated our briefing note, “Is Open Source Software...
View ArticleLeveling the playing field for open source in education and public sector
Last week I presented at ALT-C in Nottingham on the topic of open source in education and the public sector. This was partly to invite people to participate in Open Source Options for Education, and...
View ArticleUsing open source software can offer savings for colleges
In case you missed it, Jisc Inform has an article by OSS Watch on open source for colleges, in which we highlight the Open Source Options resource. I’ll also be doing a short talk at ALT-C next month...
View ArticleOSS Watch joins G-Cloud
OSS Watch has been awarded a place on G-Cloud, the UK Government cloud procurement initiative, and will be making a range of services available through the CloudStore. The UK Government has been...
View ArticleOpen Source and Open Standards key to future of public sector IT
Last week Open Source, Open Standards 2013 took place in London, an event focussed on the public sector. Naturally these being two topics we’re very keen on here at OSS Watch I went along too. Overall...
View ArticleOpen Source meets Open Standards
OSS Watch Briefing Paper: Open Standards and Open Source Open source software and open standards are two of the key interventions in technology policy, whether that policy is made by governments,...
View ArticleWhy you need to evaluate sustainability
When you’re considering free and open source software, whether for procurement or as a basis for developing new software, you need to take account of sustainability. This means evaluating whether the...
View ArticleOpen source in education: where does the change need to happen?
In our recent survey on free and open source software in the UK education sectors, we asked colleges and universities for their main reasons for not selecting an open source solution according to 12...
View ArticleOpen Source Options for Education updated
We’ve just updated our Open Source Options for Education list, providing a list of alternatives to common proprietary software used in schools, colleges and universities. Most of the software we list...
View ArticleOpen source policies in UK universities and colleges – what’s changed over...
As a result of the OSS Watch National Software Survey, we now have 10 years of survey data on open source in universities and colleges in the UK, so we can look at some long term trends. Today I’ve...
View ArticleIs Open Source Insecure?
tl;dr: Open Source is inherently no more or less secure than closed source software. For a more thorough answer to this question, we’ve just updated our briefing note, “Is Open Source Software...
View ArticleLeveling the playing field for open source in education and public sector
Last week I presented at ALT-C in Nottingham on the topic of open source in education and the public sector. This was partly to invite people to participate in Open Source Options for Education, and...
View ArticleUsing open source software can offer savings for colleges
In case you missed it, Jisc Inform has an article by OSS Watch on open source for colleges, in which we highlight the Open Source Options resource. I’ll also be doing a short talk at ALT-C next month...
View ArticleOSS Watch joins G-Cloud
OSS Watch has been awarded a place on G-Cloud, the UK Government cloud procurement initiative, and will be making a range of services available through the CloudStore. The UK Government has been...
View ArticleOpen Source and Open Standards key to future of public sector IT
Last week Open Source, Open Standards 2013 took place in London, an event focussed on the public sector. Naturally these being two topics we’re very keen on here at OSS Watch I went along too. Overall...
View ArticleOpen Source meets Open Standards
OSS Watch Briefing Paper: Open Standards and Open Source Open source software and open standards are two of the key interventions in technology policy, whether that policy is made by governments,...
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