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 ...

One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the ...

Balancing the benefits provided by community and transparency with the risks posed by capacity and warranty issues.

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 refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

A global survey of 1,250 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat finds nearly 80% of respondents expect to increase use of emerging open source software technologies over the next two years, with the top ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

There are several riffs on the original 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' distinction as a way of explaining open source. I've been saying 'free as in puppy' for years and I coined 'free as in ...

There’s no doubt about it, Microsoft is a behemoth. It has permeated the computer industry and has an enormous amount of clout. So, what’s to rain on Microsoft’s parade? Actually, a threat is emerging ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...