CIO.com – If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source ...

IBM recently released a new Open Source Cloud Guide designed to outline three main things: how different cloud environments use open source, a variety of open source projects for hybrid cloud ...

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 ...

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. “The phrase we use is ‘code is the new ...

The research and development team at Spotify has nominated four open source projects to receive a share of its annual €100,000 FOSS (Free and Open Source) Fund. Tyson Singer, Spotify’s head of ...

Open source describes an approach to how software is created and licensed. It helps companies and individuals create code, make that software available to others and manage their projects over time.

Open-source projects allow anyone to examine, modify or improve the respective code, offering significantly more flexibility than proprietary software. They are also gaining momentum by creating ...

David Murphy wrote a piece over on MaximumPC on Friday titled, “Open Source? Who Cares!” Murphy covers a number of topics that speak to what is holding back open source adoption. I don’t see open ...

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

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