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What are open-source operating systems? Everything you need to know

The lowdown on what open-source operating systems are and why they matter.

September 6, 2019 by Nick Heath

Open source is more important than ever, say developers. Here's what's driving adoption

The open-source software community continues to go from strength to strength, yet persistent challenges around skills, security and integration are hampering progress.

February 17, 2022 by Owen Hughes

Facebook's Social Graph, Neo4j show rising use of graph databases

Facebook's Social Graph -- the database underlying its Graph Search engine unveiled yesterday-- is just one of many graph databases being employed for complex, connected data. Neo4j is another leading graph database that is open source and used by Cisco, Adobe, Squidoo and Intuit.

January 16, 2013 by Paula Rooney

OpenOffice.org 2.4.0

OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications — such as a word processor or spreadsheet — at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.

August 4, 2008 by Alex Serpo

Microsoft is going all-in on 'Inner Source'

Microsoft is staffing up an internal Inner Source initiative to bring open-source principles, methodologies and tools for use by development teams inside the company.

February 18, 2019 by Mary Jo Foley

Ten leading platforms for creating online communities

Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you're on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people and accomplish work in a highly collaborative manner. It's beginning to be understood that communities aren't just for socializing but for getting things done.

September 4, 2008 by Dion Hinchcliffe

Bob Muglia: Microsoft changing its approach to interoperability

"What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years.

May 23, 2007 by Dan Farber

For 2008, I am Google (and so can you)

How far can the idea of "give first, then take" really go, in the real world? Google has the bandwidth, the processing power and the storage to take this idea to the ends of the Earth, and to either prove it or disprove it, once and for all.

December 20, 2007 by Dana Blankenhorn

Mundie, Tiemann: Great open source debate

Get ready to rumble! Microsoft's senior vice president and Red Hat's CEO will square off to defend their conflicting views on open source at a major conference on July 26.

June 6, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Open-source VoIP company wins funding

Digium, an open-source VoIP software maker, has received $13.2 million in first-round venture capital funding from Matrix Partners for the development of Asterisk.

August 9, 2006 by Candace Lombardi