As the big data space continues to explode, so has the variety of projects that help make the most of it. Most people are already familiar with Apache Hadoop, and many are leveraging Cascading.

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Most people don’t realize it, but many of the devices and apps you use every day are built on top of open source software, maintained by one or two developers that aren’t paid for their time, who ...

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A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping. By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac has written about the ...

You may be thinking “who needs another open source High Availability (HA) project?” Or, in fact, “why do we need any open source HA project?” For those who do not know, OpenSAF is the latest in a line ...

Generative AI tools have quickly become transformative to many businesses, with their power to create words, pictures, video, sounds and even computer code, augment human skills and automate routine ...

Open source refers to a type of software whose source code, the human-readable instructions that make up the program, is made freely available for anyone to access, use, modify, and distribute. Unlike ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a disturbing aspect of the European Commission’s proposed Digital Single Market: the fact that “ICT standardisation requires a balanced IPR [intellectual property ...