The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Revision control or source code control are also important, mainly because they’re all the same thing i.e. the ...

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. With every company now a software company, at least according to some experts, businesses are having to find ways to ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

If you’ve spent any time evaluating software version-control systems, you have undoubtedly looked at GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket Server, two big names that offer both on-premises installs and a ...

The right tools make all the difference... While allegiance to either open-source or proprietary software is still so often a religious debate, CollabNet serves as an example of a company that's ...

In the past few years, open-source (OS) business models have become widely successful in disrupting the enterprise infrastructure market. It’s crazy to think that giving away your code for free is ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Editor's note: This story was updated at noon July 17, 2006, to correct that the 451 Group is an independent research group that analyzes the business of enterprise information technology. It also ...