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 ...

Open source alternative for Active Directory Ever since Active Directory was introduced with Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft has had the upper hand for enterprise account management. Active Directory ...

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 ...

OpenSSL is why you see that little padlock next to a web address in your browser. It's one of the core implementations behind ...

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 ...

IBM is giving the open-source community a Java technology that will allow businesses to connect to a giant online directory for conducting e-commerce transactions. IBM (ibm) is donating the software ...

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, ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Instaclustr Pty Ltd., which sells hosted and managed versions of popular open-source software Apache Cassandra, Spark and Kafka, is giving back to the community with three projects of its own. The ...

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 ...