When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in 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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the ...

Open-source refers to the practice of making source code freely available to the public, allowing anyone to view, modify and distribute the code. In computer science and software development, open ...

The company announces plans to assemble a package of Java-based open-source tools for building corporate Web applications. The suite will be bundled with Red Hat's version of Linux. Martin LaMonica is ...

OPEN-SOURCE DATABASES are emerging as viable alternatives to costly proprietary databases and, in doing so, are filling a key slot in the open-source e-business development stack. With vendors working ...

If you spend your days developing web applications and websites based on Microsoft technologies you may have an opportunity to get some free software and some free marketing. Microsoft has announced ...

Looking to widen its developer audience, IBM signs a partnership with Zend to bolster use of the PHP scripting language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

There are dozens of open source development boards available in the market; in this column we look at ten of the more popular offerings. Open source is one of the most interesting technological topics ...

(Corrects title of Nvidia executive in last paragraph) By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nvidia on Monday ...

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 ...