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Rick Whiting
High-performance data management and analytics tools, software for managing APIs and Kubernetes containers, and application development and machine learning platforms: Here’s a look at the open source software—new and tried-and-true—that caught our attention in 2022. .
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Open source software tools are growing in popularity due to the multiple benefits they provide, including low up-front software and hardware costs, low total cost of ownership, lack of vendor lock-in, simple license management and support from active communities.
Ongoing migration to cloud systems and digital transformation initiatives are also key drivers of open source software adoption.
Some open source software products, including the Linux operating system and the Kubernetes container platform, are so widely used that they’re practically household names. But there is a wide variety of innovative open source software available for anything from application development, data management and analytics, business applications, audio and visual content creation, AI and machine learning, cyber security, email, browsers and more.
Here’s a look at 10 cool open source software tools that caught our attention this year. Some of these devices are new, launched in recent years — even in 2022 — while others have been around for a while and make our list because of their speed.
Rick Whiting
