Lora is an attorney and journalist who covers regulatory and legislative issues for IT Business Edge's Managing Compliance Standards weekly report.

Microsoft has its share of woes when it comes to open source standardization.  This article features an interview with Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, and his viewpoints on wha...

At its recent analyst conference, Sun's Jonathan Schwartz highlighted the role of Solaris in Sun's new strategy. Sun, with its open sourcing of Solaris and Java, is focusing on fast-growing companies,...

With Mitchell Ashley, CTO and general manager, StillSecure, who spoke to Lora Bentley at IT Business Edge regarding the differences between GPL v2 and GPL v3 and why some open source leaders aren't ma...

The cost of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reforms has fallen, but most of the cost savings are due to internal efficiencies at companies, because audit fees are still rising.

As part of its goal of increasing engagement with the open source world, Microsoft has submitted its open source licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval.