How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry. That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight ...

GCC is used to produce most programs in the open-source movement, so a little improvement or degradation can propagate widely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Programmers release version 3.0 of GCC, a software project not as well-known as open-source projects such as Linux but one that's key to all of them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 ...

Over the years, the IT landscape has seen truly iconic open-source projects, such as Linux, Mozilla Firefox and GNU Compiler Collection. The open-source market is also forecasted to exceed $32 billion ...

Open source databases emerged on the scene in the mid-to-late 1990s, following closely behind the release of Linux. Postgres had its roots in relational database research projects led by Michael ...