Open source software also answers needs that are not met by commercial software producers: the creation of solutions that benefit the community at large but may not be ready yet for the marketplace.

French engineer André Buhart has published the plans and open-source software to create a DIY "solar energy router" to manage PV overproduction. Depending on the configuration, the device can ...

Meanwhile, Compiere unveiled Compiere Manufacturing, a manufacturing ERP solution based on an open source platform. The application, available June 15, integrates and automates planning and scheduling ...

Tracking open source software companies that have gone proprietary over the past 10 years: A timeline.

Papa John’s uses open source IT management platform OpenNMS to monitoring its online ordering system, which is expected to fulfill orders for 750,000 pizzas, or 6 millions slices, and about 1 ...

Hyland, the pioneer of the Content Innovation Cloud™ and the leader in open source for enterprise content management and automation, has long demonstrated its commitment to open source through its ...

OpenUSD: This pipeline management tool — Universal Scene Description software — originated at Pixar in 2013, which then released the technology as open source software in 2016.

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a ...