Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners — the best open source software for business — and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop.

In the intricate landscape of software development, the question of whether open source software provides superior security compared to proprietary alternatives has sparked a longstanding debate. The ...

Open source software is a key option libraries should consider when implementing strategic technologies. Even though a greater number of libraries are adopting proprietary systems, open source ...

More than three-quarters of organizations increased their use of open-source software during the past year as the popularity of DevOps tooling, data technologies and AI/ML tooling grows. A survey of ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

"The genie is out of the bottle on open source. There’s no going back to the proprietary model." —Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM CTO and co-inventor of MQTT. By now, you’ve likely seen a number of reports ...

Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code. Just ...

There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology — software that is open to change and free to adopt — has gone from the exception to ...

Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry--"Software libre!"--and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and ...

InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame recognizes the 36 most important free open source software projects in history (and today) Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners — ...