Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

That's the prognosis of a recent survey of 872 IT managers, which finds eight in 10 companies employ open source software. However, using freely available and low-cost or no-cost licensed software ...

The first step of establishing a work order procedure is to establish a database system in which to record data about all of your work orders. You can use regular database software or purchase a ...

Open source software (OSS) hubs, such as GitHub, are an example of a kind of open collaboration that can broaden design perspectives beyond those of a single company or design work group.

Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founders, said in his seminal work, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, "Every good work of [open-source] software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." ...