A major revision to the popular open-source Apache server software has entered beta testing--much later than its developers had hoped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The GPL makes sense as a way to protect open-source software from proprietary interests, but doesn't this simply make it a less efficient form of proprietary software? Matt Asay is a veteran ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

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 ...

Open-source software (OSS), by its nature, is sometimes overlooked as part of technology transactions. OSS is often a key aspect of a ...

Web server survey site Netcraft’s recent report may have indicated Microsoft’s IIS is gaining ground over the venerable open source Apache HTTP server, but Version 7.0 is promising to take the ...

The Apache Software Foundation disputes claims that its OpenOffice project suffered an Akira ransomware attack, after the ...

AI workflows fundamentally depend on real-time data movement: ingesting training data streams, feeding live data to models for inference and distributing predictions back to applications. But strip ...

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 ...

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 ...