InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

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 ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building ...

As open source software grows more popular, and important, developers face an existential question: How to make money from something you give away for free? The Open Source Initiative standards body ...

The fun and games in the world of commercial open source software never stop. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their ...

Open source software is an increasingly important part of many organizations. Yet establishing sustainable business models to support open source development is a non-trivial problem because the ...

Nate Nead is the CEO of DEV.co and SEO.co. Nate and his teams specialize in custom software development, web design and digital marketing. Open-source software is becoming increasingly popular for ...

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 ...

Money may not grow on trees, but it does grow in GitHub repos. Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the ...