For the developer – whether an in-house member of staff, a part-time coder, an independent one-man shop, or someone involved with writing applications and services for major vendors – the problem of ...

There are free and open source alternatives to just about every proprietary software package available today–the trick is just finding the right ones for your business. Luckily, fresh help is now on ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

With its acquisition of Suse Linux in 2003, Novell set itself up as the chief commercial competitor to Red Hat Linux for the enterprise Linux market. Last week Red Hat struck back, this time bringing ...

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...

Customize content and workflows with HubSpot CMS software’s unique developer resources. Gain access to a variety of packages and licenses for open source software. HubX Asset Copier is a Chrome ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Open source refers to a software program or ...

Hewlett-Packard is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community, the company's new open-source boss said. "Across HP, there are ...

The good news is that open-source software is used in the vast majority, 78 percent, of businesses. The bad news is that far less do even a half-way decent job of managing it. Lou Shipley, Black ...