Well, actually, no (see the sidebar, “Best open source programming language”). But we’re more than ready to declare winners of the open source sweepstakes in IDEs, rich Internet apps, AJAX toolkits, ...

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 ...

These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

Global collaboration and contributions to the creation of software projects are made possible by open source, leading to faster innovation and the creation of more advanced and reliable software. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last week’s Docker announcement that it would make more than 1,000 of its Docker Hardened Images free and open-source software, combined with Anaconda’s AI Catalyst and other development technologies, ...

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 ...