A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster.
Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
Greenpeace is developing an online collaboration platform to mobilise climate change, based entirely on open-source technologies.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
Alternatives to traditional content management products are now ready for prime time, but there are several factors to consider when selecting an open-source solution.
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