Looking to widen its developer audience, IBM signs a partnership with Zend to bolster use of the PHP scripting language. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about tech companies, careers, and in-demand skills. Mar 26, 2018, 10:55pm EDT Mar 27, 2018, 01:36pm EDT This article is ...

When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in an ...

With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favor of the open-source alternative PHP. The scripting switch will affect the way Yahoo ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...