More than three-quarters of organizations increased their use of open-source software during the past year as the popularity of DevOps tooling, data technologies and AI/ML tooling grows. A survey of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of ...

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 ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Open source management applications now available from commercial software makers could help enterprise IT departments acquire advance management capabilities, sign on for substantial support and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Of all of the virtues that backers of open-source software tout, widespread availability of enterprise-level support is not among them. In fact, a lack of support has been a drawback ...

That was when his institution, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, decided to use open-source software to cope with spam. Students and faculty and staff members were complaining loudly about ...

Hewlett-Packard is set to announce plans Tuesday to expand its support for open-source software. The computing giant will certify and support MySQL, the leading open-source database program, and JBoss ...

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