IBM's recent decision to replace its Oracle Siebel customer management system with SugarCRM's web-based application is a big vote of confidence in commercial open source software. Commercial open ...

A partnership composed of Johnson Controls, CBRE, World Resources Institute (WRI), and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was recently launched to test and deploy an open-source, web-based energy ...

Follows successful incubation at the Linux Foundation and new research showing Commercial Open Source (COSS) startups outperform their proprietary peers For years, people saw a conflict between ...

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 ...

Did you know that many of the tools you use every day have free, open-source alternatives that are just as good as—or even better than—their expensive commercial counterparts? Open-source software is ...

Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of modern software solutions use a code base made up of open-source components, according to 2022 data from the ...

LibreOffice is a great office suite, but it isn't as good as OpenOffice, which is offered by Apache and is more conservative with its updates.

Whereas industries at large are rapidly expanding their usage of artificial intelligence (AI), business leaders may not appreciate how they have similarly been expanding their use of open source ...