Open source doesn't automatically translate into better paid support for customers. But it does offer a lot more options and aligns customers with vendors more tightly. Matt Asay is a veteran ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

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 ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...