Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

Open source is not going away. It's coming into its prime. Tim O'Reilly correctly spots a trend but incorrectly assigns its significance, as it relates to open source. Matt Asay is a veteran ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

Open source has taught the industry how to ensure freedom and transparency, but still has much to learn from proprietary platforms as to how to involve lay users. Matt Asay Contributing Writer Matt ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

After a series of entries about security threats from employees, I’d like to turn to something completely different: security issues relating to open source software. For those of you unfamiliar with ...

Dr. Joseph Castle is the advisor for strategic relationships and open-source technologies at SAS after serving more than 20 years in the U.S. federal government. He spent time at the White House ...

In simple terms, open source CRM is a type of customer management software whose source code is freely available for anyone ...

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 protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

Photoshop has long been the standard of image editing, but for many of us, the subscription wasn’t worth it anymore, ...