Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

Apache Cassandra’s highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database has a lot to offer the modern enterprise burdened by high-volume data. As its popularity and reliance has grown, its open core ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. “We allow customers to ...

Many open source software companies embraced the open core model to increase revenues. Yugabyte found greater rewards leaving open core behind. Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues you should follow his ...

Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey has a simple way of defending when companies should pay for components in his open core Java-based caching software, Ehcache. Operators pay. Developers come in free.

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

Open source software is an increasingly important part of many organizations. Yet establishing sustainable business models to support open source development is a non-trivial problem because the ...

The open source movement has taken center stage in software development, and its influence echoes through other areas of life such as open culture and open data. Many software companies hope to cement ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...