Other proprietary software is being replaced by open source and SaaS applications (he agrees that they're bosom buddies). He's voting with his substantial IT budget for value and innovation, not ...

In short, proprietary software is little more than a means of "monetising" software so as to make it a source of growth and an attractor of investment, and that "monetisation" is essential to the ...

With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program -- and through it, exercises power over its users.

If you don't believe that the proprietary software model is inherently bad for customers, read on. I've argued before that proprietary software pits vendors against would-be customers.

“Today’s open source vs. proprietary software debates typically center not on which model is better, as I think there is some general agreement that both have their place,” he says.

Nevertheless, when it came to end-user software, Ubuntu has generally held the line against including proprietary software in their distribution. For example, you won’t find Adobe Flash 10.x in ...

But in many cases, proprietary software fills niches that FOSS software does not. If individual activists want to "wear a hair shirt" and go without functionality in the name of FOSS, that's their ...

Is Proprietary Software Better, Safer than Open Source? What Univa, Alfresco, MapR, MongoDB, WANdisco Say 3 minute read By Virginia Backaitis April 18, 2013 Information Management ...

But why shut out proprietary software--it's profitable, attracts investment and creates jobs. Written by John Carroll, Contributor Dec. 16, 2003, 5:45 a.m. PT ...

Proprietary vendors, he argues, hold back all value until customers risk time and money buying their software. “This is hardly the best basis to create a partnership, which is really what open ...

Hortonworks Inc., an open-source software company that startled the tech industry 14 months ago by going public with revenue of well below $100 million, is shifting its strategy.

Enter proprietary software As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Hortonworks “will [soon] offer proprietary software, built by other companies or in partnership with Hortonworks, that would ...