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A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in thesoftware industry. Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing haveevolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications.

At the recent Black Hat security show in Las Vegas, SaaS vulnerability management company Qualys announced a new open source security tool called Blind Elephant. The tool is open source and is used to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Open source presents a viable option for developing Web services if developers are willing to work with tools that are not as easy to use as commercial products, a consultant said ...

As the Web 2.0 Summit (Nov. 7-9 in San Francisco’s aptly-named Palace Hotel) drifted into its second half, the panels ended and all eyes were focused on the main stage in the Grand Ballroom. But the ...

As a sign of its support for the growing momentum behind open source web mapping technologies, Autodesk, Inc. is releasing the code for MapServer Enterprise, the company's new web mapping platform, as ...

While there are differing perspectives on the degree to which no-code and low-code development tools could eventually supplant human software developers, it’s clear that any software that takes care ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Konqueror web browser is developed by KDE. Konqueror is one of the lesser-known open-source web browsers that’s been built on top of KHTML. Konqueror has been built for any kind of file previewing and ...

Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

FEW IN IT continue to nurse doubts about the capabilities of open-source software. Yet when companies weigh open-source Web and database servers against costly commercial alternatives, open source ...