These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

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 ...

One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favor of doing business entirely on the Web. VA Software said Thursday it has changed its name ...

Early Windows had big gaps. These four open-source apps stepped in and solved problems Microsoft left unsolved.

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 ...

Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of voluntary social cooperation. Standard neoclassical economic theory ...

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 ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

Whether it’s Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Shopify or something else, businesses rely on standard software applications for efficient daily operation. But what if this software weren’t available? That’s ...