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 ...

Putting a value on the use of open-source technologies is challenging but important.

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.

Free and open source software is released with licenses that allow it to be redistributed freely for others to use, copy, and/or modify within certain restrictions and conditions. Free culture refers ...

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 ...