Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim’s $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released new joint guidance developed by its flagship public-private collaborative on open source software security in operational technology ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

They'll need every penny of it and more. The government will not be paying the freight for these changes. $30 million has already been pledged by Amazon, Ericsson, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and VMWare ...

In a move that marked its entry into the open-source application infrastructure market, IBM acquired Gluecode Software Inc. last week. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Gluecode, based in El ...

As the new year came in, a new project was revealed to the public: an open source identity access management package from AccessStream. The package was released as a Beta 1 version but AccessStream ...

When Bob Hecht joined Informa as its vice president of content strategy, he dreamed of rebuilding the London-based technical publishing firm’s IT infrastructure using Linux and other open-source ...

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has ...

Open-source software vendor SuSE Linux AG has named a new CEO for the second time since July in the final step of its recent restructuring. The Nuremberg, Germany-based company announced yesterday ...