When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in an ...

OPEN-SOURCE DATABASES are emerging as viable alternatives to costly proprietary databases and, in doing so, are filling a key slot in the open-source e-business development stack. With vendors working ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...

As the Web 2.0 Summit (Nov. 7-9 in San Francisco’s aptly-named Palace Hotel) drifted into its second half, the panels ended and all eyes were focused on the main stage in the Grand Ballroom. But the ...

Palm has unveiled its plans for the WebOS developer program, which is scheduled to officially launch in December. It will enable third-party developers to broadly distribute their own software ...

China's DeepSeek has released a new open source AI model. Nvidia stock sold off in early 2025 on DeepSeek news.

Looking to widen its developer audience, IBM signs a partnership with Zend to bolster use of the PHP scripting language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

A UC Davis graduate student has created short, colorful movies that show the development of open source software. With dancing points of light, rings of color and a soundtrack, the Code_swarm ...