Hiring managers seek out Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and other open source programming skills as the software sees more enterprise adoption.

With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favor of the open-source alternative PHP. The scripting switch will affect the way Yahoo ...

Maybe embracing PHP on the Azure platform was inevitable, maybe it was just a smart move. The question is, will interoperability with open source PHP make enough of a difference to matter.

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a p… ...