CERN, the research organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this week announced its intention to move away from Microsoft's productivity software in favour of open source offerings, ...

For the last 20 years, CERN-- home of the Large Hadron Collider-- has been using Microsoft products under a discounted "academic institution" rate. But in March, at the end of its previous contract, ...

The 27-kilometre-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) buried beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva is best known for helping to prove the existence of the Higgs’ Boson particle – otherwise ...

The folks who brought you the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the experiments therein are now working to bring you an OHR, aka an Open Hardware Repository for all the collaborative electronics design ...

One of the world’s most prestigious and best-known research facilities is 'taking back control' of its computing activities by moving away from Microsoft's commercial software to open source. This was ...

Citing unbearable price increases after Microsoft decided it was no longer eligible for an academic discount, CERN announced this week that it has embarked on a “Microsoft Alternatives” project to ...

In what appears to be part of its ongoing campaign to “take back control” of its computing activities, CERN, the Geneva, Switzerland-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has announced ...

CERN, the organization behind the Large Hadron Collider experiments, has launched an open hardware initiative and accompanying license.

"Progress Software's open source solution offers us the ability to build on what we already have and support our enterprise operations. Much of the development has been funded within the European ...

Olivier Bruchez The European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) has been using Microsoft products for over 20 years. One of the reasons is that CERN is an 'academic institution' and has been able to ...

Open source software is used extensively by CERN, the particle physics lab behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. In fact, the organization even maintains its very own Linux ...