Software consortium Eclipse says Big Blue's contribution will form the basis of its Visual Editor Project. But Java steward Sun is not yet ready to join the effort. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Mountain View, Calif.-based software testing company Coverity has just released a new Scan report, this one focused on open-source big data projects and the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on ...

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project, as it continues to push back against critics who find its relationship ...

After a 2 month delay, Google has finally published the source code for Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP. Here's why that matters!

In today’s IT environments, security has become a major concern. Despite recent reports of software vulnerabilities in open source code, including Shellshock, the OpenSSL Heartbleed and GoToFail, ...

Back in August, the Obama Administration announced a new policy that requires 20 percent of the federal government's software projects be open source. To make all of that material easily accessible, ...