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The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

Open source software has made significant inroads into many enterprise data centers. IT managers have seen the licensing cost savings, and flexibility, scalability and reliability of open source ...

Databases were once the forgotten stepchild of the open-source family. Companies like Red Hat Inc. included database software with their Linux distribution disks, but the main focus was on the ...

Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a ...

Marten Mickos may no longer run MySQL, but his ghost still haunts the database market. Years ago, Mickos declared, “The relational database market is a $9 billion a year market. I want to shrink it to ...

The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, ...

PostgreSQL: This project began at the University of California, Berkeley, but soon outgrew the computer science department. Today, GreatBridge and Red Hat battle to provide support services for the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Datafold, a data reliability company, today announced data-diff, a new open source cross-database diffing package. This new product is an open source extension to Datafold’s ...

The two top open source databases are certainly not standing still and continue adding to the momentum of open source in the marketplace. Both Oracle's MySQL and PostgreSQL have made recent ...

University of Navarra (Spain) researchers have developed RNACOREX, a new open-source software capable of identifying gene ...