It’s a mistake to believe that running open source in the cloud will protect you from vendor lock-in. But open source certainly offers freedom and independence to developers. There’s a lot of wishful ...

As cloud computing, by many accounts, is poised to shake the very foundation of high-tech and IT, it's only fitting that the open-source community has taken notice, spawning a smattering of ...

While the cloud is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the modern business world, companies migrating to remote infrastructure face a host of challenges — and arguably chief among them is the ...

Open-source code plays a crucial role in the digital transformation of enterprises’ cloud strategies, and tech giants are catching on. Microsoft, for example, acquired GitHub in October 2018, and IBM ...

A scene from the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2018 open-source conference in Shanghai. (Cloud Native Computing Foundation Photo, via Flickr.) At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

These days, it's virtually impossible to avoid open-source software. If you're a Web company, don't even bother trying. That's the message I got from a conversation Friday with Raju Vegesna, ...

In addition to integration and intellectual property challenges, companies may not have the technical expertise to customize or secure open source software. Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The first wave of cloud-computing startups focused on helping companies simply figure out how to operate in this new world of servers, rented from ...

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