When Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, Calif., acquired open-source database vendor MySQL AB in the fall of 2007, many solution providers expressed relief at having a strong channel-friendly company ...

If you're like me, you've probably tried a dozen different backup tools, hoping to find one that actually works the way you want. I've gone from bloated commercial suites that slow down my system to ...

The project, which began as a personal experiment in content-defined deduplication, has evolved into a fully-fledged ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plakar, an open-source backup and restore platform, today announced the general availability of its first stable release, alongside a $3 million pre-seed funding round led by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) tools infuse automation into the software development lifecycle. By helping developers automate integration, testing and deployment, ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

Good software is the basis of all PC use, but many professional programs are too expensive for private use. This is where the free software-based applications step in, which, including their source ...

A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Surprisingly, many are not opposing the ...