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.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. SAP used its SAP Sapphire user, developer, practitioner, customer, partner event this week in Orlando, Florida to ...

Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open source alternative to Google’s Looker, is lifting the lid on a new product that allows companies to train “AI analysts” specific to individual ...

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) today announced a new open source orchestration platform for process automation. The project, Fluxnova, provides audit-ready workflows so that companies can ...

Over the last 40 years, the open-source software (OSS) movement has been a moving target for detractors and supporters. Its free-to-distribute code philosophy competed against proprietary software 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 ...

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 software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of modern software solutions use a code base made up of open-source components, according to 2022 data from the ...