Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

These days, it's virtually impossible to avoid open-source software. If you're a Web company, don't even bother trying. That's the message I got from a conversation Friday with Raju Vegesna, ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

As cloud computing, by many accounts, is poised to shake the very foundation of high-tech and IT, it's only fitting that the open-source community has taken notice, spawning a smattering of ...

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Microsoft Azure's CTO, Mark Russinovich, unveiled a groundbreaking open-source project, Radius. This cloud-native, application platform ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Microsoft is taking advantage of a controversy created by Google last month to push its own new competing open source technology.

In addition to integration and intellectual property challenges, companies may not have the technical expertise to customize or secure open source software. Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and ...

IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider. Red Hat ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

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 ...

While many proprietary project management tools are available on the market, open-source project management software provides an alternative for those who prefer to use free, customizable and ...