Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim’s $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet.

Many IT professionals, analysts and journalists are calling 2005 the year the world awakened to the advantages of open-source. I personally have reaped the benefits of open-source for many years and ...

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 ...

The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks.