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 ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter's count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That's not bad. The first class, Open Source Software ...

Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the details that the customer needs for their software. Time is also changing; the emergence of AI combined with ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes ...

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...

Shares in chipmaker Nvidia ($NVDA) rose over 1% on Monday morning after the U.S. chipmaker announced its acquisition of ...

At the Utah Open Source Conference yesterday I presented a dilemma. Briefly, the idea is that as open-source buyers grow comfortable with open source they will stop spending money on open source. This ...

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, ...

An open source tax credit is proposed which would allow individuals who develop open source software to receive a tax credit worth 20 percent of their out-of-pocket costs. Corporations and ...

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 toolkits, ...