The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

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 ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...

The GNU General Public License (GPL) and its “Lesser” version (LGPL) are widely known and used. Still, every so often, a networking hardware maker has to get sued to make sure everyone knows how it ...

It is exciting to see Ignite UI open-sourcing their Angular components. By making these enterprise-grade tools accessible to the broader community, Infragistics is lowering the ...

Nvidia said on Monday it acquired AI software firm SchedMD, as the chip designer doubles down on open-source technology and ...

Containers are the universal path to production. Docker Hub handles more than 20 billion pulls each month, and Docker's open source base images have powered the world's software for over a decade.

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 ...