Well, actually, no (see the sidebar, “Best open source programming language”). But we’re more than ready to declare winners of the open source sweepstakes in IDEs, rich Internet apps, AJAX ...

Open source software is any kind of program that anyone in the world can download, modify and distribute it without paying fees. It comes in a variety of flavors, from open source CRMs to cloud ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...

Open source and proprietary software each come with their own sets of pros and cons. Here are some to keep in mind when making software purchasing decisions. ... No programming needed.

Now, free software has been around since the first computers, but the philosophy of both free software and open source are both much newer. In the 1970s and 80s, companies rose up which sought to ...

Tabular data is at the heart of scientific analysis—whether in medicine, the social sciences, or even archaeology. Making it ...

How can big companies like Tibco misunderstand open source so badly nearly 15 years after the term was coined?

The SolarWinds & Log4j hacks showed open source vulnerabilities. A study looks at the open source community’s efforts to “credit-rate” risk.

If the open source model has a sweet spot, it’s in programming tools. Linus Torvalds’s fabled “world domination” on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it’s already here ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...