Gartner has issued a new report “The Growing Maturity of Open-Source Database Management Systems” by DBMS analyst Donald Feinberg. Feinberg is an old hand at Gartner, having created the DBMS research ...

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 software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Open-source database vendor Ingres Corp. today unveiled Ingres Database 9.2, the first major release of the venerable software in more than a year. A number of features center on improving ...

In 2021, Elastic moved to closed source licenses after several years of conflict with Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS, which was selling its own managed version of Elasticsearch. While AWS was perfectly ...

Coming on the eve of OSCON in Portland next week, Forrester has published a new report that estimates the current open source database market is $850 million, and that number will grow to $1.2 billion ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...