IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers. On Friday, the tech giant announced a ...

Some fairly large Internet services are pressing into production Facebook’s open-source PHP runtime engine after being impressed with the performance metrics for the alternative to the ubiquitous open ...

Balancing the benefits provided by community and transparency with the risks posed by capacity and warranty issues.

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 ...

Open source software appeals to many in IT for its low — or nonexistent entry price — and flexibility, and now that appeal is growing on hiring managers, according to IT talent experts, who report ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the ...

The division between proprietary software vendors and open-source providers is not as clear as some industry players perceive it to be. As more enterprises consider adopting open source technologies, ...

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...