A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the ...

Open source software (OSS) has become the backbone of modern technology, providing the foundation for countless businesses and applications. From operating systems like Linux to databases like MySQL ...

Commercial open source is often framed in the wrong way. On one side, you have people who treat open source as a moral commitment that becomes compromised the moment money enters the picture. On the ...

Forrester just issued an insightful report on the increasing adoption of open source in the enterprise. The verdict? Open source is everywhere, and taking an ever-increasing piece of the enterprise ...

Open source is where using free products doesn't mean you're the product!

IBM's recent decision to replace its Oracle Siebel customer management system with SugarCRM's web-based application is a big vote of confidence in commercial open source software. Commercial open ...

On Windows 11, open-source software continues to gain traction among users who want more control, better privacy, and tools that do not lock them into subscriptions or ecosystems. In Reddit ...

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.