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 ...

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, today announced Chainguard Catalog Starter, providing developers with free access to a starter pack of Chainguard base, application, and AI images of ...

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 ...

Open-source software sometimes gets a bad reputation for being buggy, insecure, low-quality, or all of the above. To find out for myself, I spent a lot of time using open-source software and came away ...

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 ...

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

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

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, ...

What if building your next app or website didn’t require endless hours of coding or expensive subscriptions? Imagine a tool that lets you describe your vision in plain language and transforms it into ...

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 ...