"I believe that we're starting to see a trend away from the serial, and often bureaucratic, methods that pervade many data groups toward an evolutionary/agile approach that reflects modern software development practices."

From the Editor, Gabriele Piccoli

Some debate can be had about the exact birth date of the open source software movement. Was it when computer enthusiasts and scientists began to exchange code? Was it at the time of the birth of the Internet when the infrastructure was made available to enable further collaboration?

"Alas, an embarrassingly large percentage of IT projects continue to fail -- and now that so many of them involve outsourcing contracts between vendors and customers who may be located on opposite sides of the world, the failures are even more likely to result in expensive litigation."

From the Editor, Gabriele Piccoli

An article in the 31 March 2005 Economist, aptly titled "Power at Last," proclaimed that new information technologies and the Internet have finally tipped the balance of power in economic exchanges to the side of the buyer.