Mobile devices are fast outpacing the growth of PCs. Gartner Inc. estimated that 750 million mobile phones would be shipped last year — the vast majority of them with Java capabilities built in.

“It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ...

Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support ...

Open-source application development platform and Postgres database service provider Supabase Inc. said today it has closed on an $80 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date ...

Open-source software sometimes gets a bad reputation for being buggy, insecure, low-quality, or all of the above. To find out for myself, I spent a lot of time using open-source software and came away ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Federal, state and local governments' love affair with open-source software isn't cooling off. Government use of open-source technology, in fact, continues to expand beyond the Linux operating system ...

I rely on a handful of open-source web apps that handle everyday tasks without installing anything locally.

What if building your next app or website didn’t require endless hours of coding or expensive subscriptions? Imagine a tool that lets you describe your vision in plain language and transforms it into ...

Open source software (OSS) has evolved from a niche resource for technical specialists into a critical infrastructure supporting a vast and diverse user base. Central to this evolution is the ...