Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

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 ...

Computers have been around for more than 100 years: From the introduction of tabulation machines by the company that became IBM, followed by minicomputers from companies like Digital Equipment ...