thinks we need a software bill of materials (BOM). This would give companies a comprehensive look into the open-source and commercial components and frameworks used in an application or service.

They discussed the prevalence of open source in enterprise applications, Tidelift’s software-as-a-service-based security solution and the startup’s work with Amazon Web Services Inc ...

But with open-source programs, this can be done with a software bill of materials (SBOM), pronounced “s-bomb”. Indeed, SBOMs are no longer just a good idea; they’re a federal mandate.

Much as manufacturers provide an inventory of all items contained in a specific product, a software BOM would provide a list of all open-source and ... is seeking to make the SBOM a requirement ...

For the last year, I’ve been writing about open-source ... a software company. It’s not enough to deploy the latest enterprise software; the most successful companies today create their ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it ... files away from the repositories. The BOM first perhaps, then the KiCAD files.

The open source movement changed how companies build software. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo employees pitched in during the early days of the data-crunching software Hadoop. Even after the ...

Opening up open-source software to make it more accessible and understandable to more users is a goal of a $1.6 million grant to the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska-Omaha.