Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

Open-source project StratoWeave was developed by LFN member organization Deutsche Telekom (DT) as a solution to increasing ...

Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and horizontal drilling are not the only technologies producing profits these days in the oil patches of southern Texas. Another is the open-source software that has ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. There's an XKCD comic about unifying, catch-all standards accidentally contributing to the proliferation of all kinds of protocols, ...

In what has become a VMworld tradition, VMware kicked off the annual event this morning by announcing an acquisition: SaltStack, an open-source based automation software provider. The companies didn’t ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The roots of robotic process automation (RPA) emerged from the test ...

Automation tools like Zapier and n8n dominate the conversation when it comes to workflow automation. They’re easy to use and allow anyone to connect to their favorite apps without writing a single ...

"The genie is out of the bottle on open source. There’s no going back to the proprietary model." —Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM CTO and co-inventor of MQTT. By now, you’ve likely seen a number of reports ...

Building automation systems (BASs) and open-source software are two areas of interest for me, so I’d like to share some thoughts on how they intersect, at least from the exposure I’ve had to them.