The Fedora Project’s 389 Directory Server, an advanced and complete open source LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server, can satisfy every corporate demand for an alternative to popular ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Not many of us think "open source" as we use today's sophisticated software. But in fact, most of that software is actually based on open source. IT leaders are recognizing the benefits of returning ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.