Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was ...

In response to the June 27 Perspectives column by Charles Cooper, "": Your points on intellectual property are well-taken and pithy, but in the case of "open source" versus "proprietary" versus ...

Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

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 ...

Proprietary information is confidential information that a company owns and safeguards to protect itself. When any of an organization's intellectual property is recorded on paper, it becomes a ...

A proprietary company is one of the legal small business forms in Australia. It is parallel to the limited liability corporation seen in some areas of the United States. With a proprietary company, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Usually proprietary means exclusive. But when it comes to quantitative equity models that some mutual fund managers charge a premium for, proprietary is a matter of degree. Even ...

As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open ...

There's been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting ...

Annual shipments of proprietary wireless technologies for home automation are expected to double by 2017, but proportionately their deployment in “smart homes” will be cut in half as service providers ...

Raymond proposed that a weakness in proprietary business models is its reliance on future sales. As Raymond states: If the vendor's money comes from selling bits, most effort will go to making bits ...

How do you define file formats which are "proprietary"? For example, Libre Office can save files in .doc format which is weird because I know MS like taking organisations to court over stuff like this ...