Open Source / GPL

Continuing advancements in reliability and performance are elevating the role of open source in software development. Both users and developers are eager for the spread of cost-effective open…

Open source databases can save enterprises up to 60 per cent over proprietary products, according to data collected by Forrester Research.

Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst at Forrester…

In an interesting twist of irony, Oracle, which is taking aim at Linux leader Red Hat for being too expensive, is being undercut with an open source challenge to its namesake database.

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Astronomers at New York City's Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space think space exploration should be easily accessible to anyone. To make that possible, they offer an…

You've probably seen the many articles infesting computing publications that blather on about comparing TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment) for Linux and Windows, and…

In his first "meet the press" session as ICT Minister, Professor Sitthichai Pokai-udom put forth his radical vision for 3G in Thailand, condemned open source for turning out buggy, useless…

Germany’s cash-strapped public sector will be the driving force behind the takeup of open-source software in the country as state-run organizations strive to lower their IT costs, according to a…

Networked journalism takes obvious cues from the open source software movement, but because the two seem so distant it helps to spell out these parallels. Below are 10 examples of how the software…

Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.

With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source…

Open-source software vendors are prodding Congress to define some legal standards to support the development and deployment of such software.

The vendors, which have formed the nonprofit…