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 ...

One of the most persistent myths surrounding Linux and other open source software is that there’s no easy way to get good support. Just this week, for instance, we saw this claim used in Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sheridan Libraries' OSPO launches an initiative to coordinate and support ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

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 ...

The General Services Administration last week announced a new policy requiring open source software be given priority consideration for all new IT projects developed by the agency. And while some may ...

Open source products comprise the work of many collaborators -- sometimes thousands of them, and often separated by oceans. Each person works on small portions of a project, and anyone is welcome to ...