InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software Awards, chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, recognize the best open source software for developers, IT organizations, and the business users ...

Mobile devices are fast outpacing the growth of PCs. Gartner Inc. estimated that 750 million mobile phones would be shipped last year — the vast majority of them with Java capabilities built in.

It is now roughly 40-plus years since Richard Stallman released his text editor with the words “EMACS General Public License” in the documentation and 20 some years since the world first saw the ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support ...

Industry insider says open source tips the balance toward the build side, thanks to shorter development times and increased possibilities for reuse How does open source figure into the build-or-buy ...

Federal, state and local governments' love affair with open-source software isn't cooling off. Government use of open-source technology, in fact, continues to expand beyond the Linux operating system ...

Quantum development just got easier with Microsoft’s open-source kit offering VS Code integration, logical qubits, and cloud ...

From a productivity perspective, managing development environments can be challenging for software teams. It’s estimated that developers lose 56% of their productivity time due to inefficient ...

The cost-free nature of open source AI software does not necessarily equate to automatically being risk-free. As is explained below, a company should carefully consider the risks of using open-source ...