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 ...

Zoho.com provides a glimpse into the future of the software industry: a lot of open-source software mixed with a cloud delivery strategy. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written ...

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 ...

Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's hard to believe that GIMP is already three decades old as I write this. It's always been the first choice for those who ...

Nvidia has announced a major expansion of its open source efforts, combining a software acquisition with new open AI models.