When starting up, many organisations assume they need to invest in expensive software packages as a platform for their services. However, open source software may provide a cost-effective alternative.

As the generative AI boom continues, startups building business models around the tech are beginning to delineate along two clear lines. Some, convinced that a proprietary and closed source approach ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

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 ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

How pervasive is open source software? Extremely pervasive. Is it getting any easier to work with? Not much easier, sorry. That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight ...

Data modeling tools play an important role in business, representing how data flows through an organization. It’s important for businesses to understand what the best data modeling tools are across ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...