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’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ...

These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

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 ...

Last week’s Docker announcement that it would make more than 1,000 of its Docker Hardened Images free and open-source software, combined with Anaconda’s AI Catalyst and other development technologies, ...

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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 ...

Jack Dorsey has been back in the news lately after unveiling a pair of new apps he worked on, Bluetooth-based messenager Bitchat and UV exposure tracker Sun Day. The Block CEO put those together under ...