Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: "Hey, let's see what the open source world has to offer." Case in point: ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

Interesting session, with a good mix of analysts, enterprise IT, and Mike Olson (Oracle - only vendor on the panel). The panel was designed to tackle questions about how big, proprietary companies are ...

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 ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Hoping to take the worry and pain out of deploying open source applications with proprietary software, SpikeSource on Tuesday formally launched its first product and services to help with such an ...

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 ...