Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim’s $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet.

Many IT professionals, analysts and journalists are calling 2005 the year the world awakened to the advantages of open-source. I personally have reaped the benefits of open-source for many years and ...

The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks.

Something important happened at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last month, and it did not get nearly the attention it deserved.