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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers — already having a banner year with numerous powerful open source AI model releases — ...

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 ...

Like many platform operators, Amazon has a love-hate relationship with those hosted on its platform. This is particularly true for open-source software creators, who see their products on offer on ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about enterprise software technology and trends. Open source is no longer just for hackers and hardcore coders. Several ...

IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider. Red Hat ...

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 ...