Pioneered by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Git ranks with caffeine as a software development essential. Git is a version control system that preserves a comprehensive record of the code in an application at all time points. With Git, each team member has a local repository and a full history with it. The Git system fosters…
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Software Industry Total Cost of Ownership
ROI is a primary concern for any enterprise undertaking, and enterprise software projects are no different. The total cost of ownership is a valuable input to an accurate ROI projection. Unfortunately, many businesses and IT leaders don’t take all the costs of the different options the software industry offers into consideration. Those oversights can lead…
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Software Security Audit Guide for Software Acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions are standard business practices; they allow companies to grow and obtain assets to increase competitiveness and their bottom line. However, while these contractual allegiances and alliances are primarily bureaucratic, the evolution of technology created addendums to standard protocols, including a software security audit. The evolution of technology and the dependence on software is…
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Top 10 Open Source Software Security Breaches
The programming world needs to cope with the continual rise of data breaches and coding vulnerabilities every year. Despite the sustained effort to perfect coding languages and programs, programmers will always fall on either side of the spectrum of good or bad, meaning that black-hat coders are constantly searching for weaknesses in software and systems….
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