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When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side

Information Week

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. And beyond the big-name frontier models at the top of the charts, theres also a rapid proliferation of small language models (SLMs), designed for niche use cases. There are plenty of good licenses out there.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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SplunkLive! makes for revealing IT management showcase

Network World

The first customer speaker of the day gave a frank assessment of his organization’s implementation (“the on-premises solution, we struggled with it…”) and his frustrations with the licensing model. You have to give Splunk credit for having enough confidence in its offerings to showcase such a kick-off case study.

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Case Study: Learn how the AICTP outperforms larger companies

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The American Institute of Certified Tax Planners (AICTP) is a not-for-profit corporation that trains and licenses tax professionals in the expertise of advanced tax reduction. ” To learn more, you can watch the interview below or read the whole case study here: [link].

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4 stories all CIOs should be able to tell

CIO Business Intelligence

The big flaw with case studies is that they’re all about companies, and nobody cares. I’m also licensed as one of about 60 storytellers worldwide to deliver workshops and training programs from Anecdote.com , which also shares a lot of great free resources. And by the way, the customer has to be the hero. You are Yoda, not Luke.

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4 stories all CIOs should be able to tell

CIO Business Intelligence

The big flaw with case studies is that they’re all about companies, and nobody cares. I’m also licensed as one of about 60 storytellers worldwide to deliver workshops and training programs from Anecdote.com , which also shares a lot of great free resources. And by the way, the customer has to be the hero. You are Yoda, not Luke.