Long gone are the days when you would buy your software on a disk and your company's IT administrators were tasked with installing and maintaining that software without the help of the automatic ...

When starting up, many organisations assume they need to invest in expensive software packages as a platform for their services. However, open source software may provide a cost-effective alternative.

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 has fueled innovation for decades, providing the building blocks for the internet and the modern cloud. Today, I believe that we’re entering a new era in which every company that ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

What’s Next for Open Source Software Security in 2025? Your email has been sent Hidden dependencies, social engineering attacks, and the complexity of foundation models can all contribute tothe ...

Find out whether management at Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and IBM think that open source is a threat or an opportunity. Reading Michael Dolan’s post titled Proof Microsoft still does not “get open source” ...

IT asset management needs to keep up. Provided byThoughtworks Early 2022 has brought with it an unusually high level of commotion in the open-source community, largely focused on the economics of ...