As open source alternatives to proprietary applications succeed, they will drive down the cost of the proprietary alternative effectively turning the application into a commodity. For example, if the ...

Open source software has made a huge impact in the software market. One such product could be about to revolutionise e-learning. To quote a well-worn adage: if it looks too good to be true, it ...

Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned open-source code.

Blackboard, whose software manages university courses, pledges not to use patents against open-source alternatives.

The combination of open-source software with artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for custom software ...

Apache (see A - Do you speak my language: A is for AJAX, Apache, API, Array, alpha software) and PHP are both open source, and without them I would not be able to deliver the eLearning that I do.

Open source applications You've probably noticed the "buzz" about open source this past year. Open source is a way of building, owning, and using software as a community. Online, in the journals, in ...