In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Cara Delia, principal vertical community architect for Red Hat, Colin Eberhardt, chief technology officer at the consulting firm Scott Logic, and Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research and ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...

Open-source software development has followed the same cycle for decades: passionate developers create innovative tools that attract the attention of large companies. Then, as companies adopt these ...

CEO of OpenUK Amanda Brock has called for something of a reimagining of the collective mindset behind how we develop open technology as an industry… and perhaps, wider, as a planet. Software develops.

Overview SCM tools track changes and prevent conflicts, making teamwork on shared projects efficient.Platforms like GitHub, ...

Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, MindsDB and Grafana Labs are among the hottest open software companies to watch in 2023. From tech giants like Microsoft and Red Hat to smaller upstarts like MindsDB and ...

Open-source software sometimes gets a bad reputation for being buggy, insecure, low-quality, or all of the above. To find out for myself, I spent a lot of time using open-source software and came away ...

Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco, is one of the industry’s big thinkers, complete with a profile in Esquire. So why would a smart guy like him dismiss open source as “fool’s gold”? And why do some ...

IRS is eyeing open source projects and Tea Party groups as possible tax scams, raising a real question: Do open source foundations need nonprofit status? Why does the IRS think open source projects ...