Google published its annual open source retrospective this week, revealing that roughly 10% of Alphabet’s full-time workforce actively contributed to open source projects in 2025 and that its Open ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Fear of vendor lock-in is a top factor for moving to open source, up 68% this year compared to last year's report.

The research was conducted in July 2026 by Censuswide, surveying 300 U.S.-based database administrators, site reliability engineers, and platform engineers. All respondents use at least one of the ...

The Linux Foundation released a new report, ROI for Open Source Software Contribution: Insight from the Open Source ROI Survey and Economic Model The global survey of more than 500 IT leaders found ...

The latest State of Trusted Open Source report from Chainguard gives details on current industry thinking about vulnerabilities in container images and the long tail of open-source dependencies. The ...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

Open source code sits inside nearly every commercial application, and development teams continue to add new dependencies. Black Duck’s 2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report data shows ...

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Taiwan's biggest hardware conglomerates have spent decades manufacturing the chips that run the world's AI systems. On Wednesday, a coalition of them acknowledged the limits of that position — and ...

Europe is moving towards OSS at a faster pace than US counterparts due to vendor lock-in concern (63% in EU and UK vs 51% in US) 60% of those working for large enterprises (5,000+ employees) spend 50% ...