Apache Cassandra’s highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database has a lot to offer the modern enterprise burdened by high-volume data. As its popularity and reliance has grown, its open core ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

The term “open core” essentially means that the heart of a software project is built on, and remains, open source but added features may not be (particularly a commercial version intended for ...

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OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenHW Group and its members today announced one of the industry’s most comprehensive open-source RISC-V Development Kits, featuring the OpenHW CORE-V MCU, the CORE-V ...

Why the threat of lock-in needs to be balanced against the danger of selecting a vendor that can't fund future product evolution A debate has been raging over the popular open core business model that ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. “We allow customers to ...

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license. Microsoft maintains this repository publicly on GitHub, where anyone can clone, ...

We're 10 years into the cloud movement, so it's a good time to consider what the cloud has done for—or to—the open source movement. I was introduced to open source, as a concept, when working with ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Open source software (OSS) is so prevalent that it’s difficult to imagine life without it. For businesses, open source ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Open source software is an increasingly important part of many organizations. Yet establishing sustainable business models to support open source development is a non-trivial problem because the ...