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| 10 New Open Source Projects You May Not Know About |
| With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. |
| January 20, 2012 |
| 10 open source projects that could really use a donation |
| Even a small donation can go a long way toward providing support for these deserving open source projects. |
| September 29, 2011 |
| 10 things that could make 2012 a banner year for open source |
| The year 2011 was, in the grand scheme of things, a rather “meh” year for open source. Nothing horrible happened and nothing magic or wonderful happened. In the end, it all balanced out. There are things that really could have happened to make it a stellar year. But all is not lost. 2012 is a new year and begs for the chance to make it a banner year for open source. How? What can possibly happen to make it open source’s year? I can think of at least 10 things. |
| January 6, 2012 |
| 10 things you should know about open source before you use it |
| Myths, misconceptions, and confusion still plague the world of open source. Here's the real scoop for anyone considering a move to an open source solution. |
| May 18, 2011 |
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| Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application |
| Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first experience in these early months is not with titanium or aluminum or advanced carbon-fiber materials that are the stuff of airplanes, but with computer code. |
| January 24, 2012 |
| After OpenOffice and Hudson, will Oracle stick with open source? |
| In recent weeks, Oracle has taken two premier open source technologies gained through the company's 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems -- the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Project Hudson continuous integration server -- and donated them to the Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation, respectively. |
| June 29, 2011 |
| Always Innovating: A company that embraces open source on multiple levels |
| Always Innovating not only lives up to their name, they do so holding tight to the ways of open source. But can companies like this survive and change the world? Read to see Jack Wallen's take. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| AMD Showcases New Open Source Physics Plug-in |
| AMD announced a technology demonstration of a Bullet Physics plug-in for Autodesk® Maya® 2011 software. The new plug-in is based on OpenCL™ industry standards and the open-source Bullet Physics Engine. AMD's Bullet Physics plug-in for Autodesk Maya 2011 is designed to enable game developers and 3D artists to access Maya's creative workflow capabilities to create interactive cloth simulations on a greater range of workstations and PCs, including those based on ATI FirePro™ professional graphics cards and AMD CPUs, and to remove technology limitations that can restrict developers' ability to create stunning games and computer-generated (CG) graphics. |
| March 3, 2011 |
| Android, iOS Draw Open Source Coders |
| If Black Duck Software's knowledge base of open source software projects serves as a barometer, then Google's Android software platform led the way in open source software development projects for mobile devices last year, followed by Apple's iOS platform. |
| March 7, 2011 |
| Apache forges ahead with OpenOffice.org suite |
| Developer release planned; open source organization asserts trademark protection |
| December 20, 2011 |
| Apple shifts Lossless Audio Codec to open source |
| Cupertino has open sourced its Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), seven years after first introducing it. |
| October 28, 2011 |
| Archos to announce Gen 9 tablets, invite suggests Market and Honeycomb |
| Archos, a longtime manufacturer of Android tablets and personal media players, has announced the release of their new generation of tablets on June 23, in Paris. Details from Archos are sparse, to say the least, but the invitation shows Bugdroid, the Android mascot, carrying a tote that looks very much like the Android Market icon, and you also see the familiar blue Honeycomb bee buzzing around his head. |
| June 1, 2011 |
| Are Mobile Apps Violating Open Source Licenses? |
| There are a lot of mobile apps that use open source software, but how many of them are in compliance with open source licensing rules? As it turns out, not very many. |
| March 8, 2011 |
| As Facebook buys Strobe, Tilde embraces its Web tech |
| Facebook has acquired Strobe, a startup focused on the open-source SproutCore software--but CNET has learned that a new startup called Tilde looks to be picking up where Strobe is leaving off. |
| November 9, 2011 |
| AT&T joins 'Linux for cloud', boosts HTML5 apps |
| AT&T -- one of America's largest internet, phone and TV service providers -- is throwing up an open-source cloud running OpenStack to court application developers. |
| January 10, 2012 |
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| Benefits of the Open Source Software Market Identified |
| A forthcoming paper in Marketing Scienceby Columbia Business School Class of 1967 Associate Professor of Business, Brett Gordon, in collaboration with Vineet Kumar, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Kannan Srinivasan, Heinz College Professor of Management, Marketing and Information Systems at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, finds that commercial open source software (COSS) results in high-quality products, and that despite the free-riding that is inherent in the industry due to information-sharing, the market creates spillover benefits for both consumers and producers. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Beyond $1bn: Why Red Hat is a one off |
| Some of the industry's smartest prognosticators, like Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady and inveterate free software advocate Glyn Moody, have questioned the likelihood of a billion-dollar open-source software vendor. |
| March 29, 2011 |
| Bridging Git Over Open Source and Commercial |
| AccuRev's Kando enterprise security and compliance platform |
| February 3, 2012 |
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| Calibre: A free, open source ebook management solution that truly delivers |
| Donovan Colbert highlights Calibre’s ability to scour web sites and compile documents that rival pay-per-view digital distributions. |
| January 18, 2012 |
| Can OpenBravo challenge incumbent ERP with open source? |
| There's a paradox operating in the enterprise apps world. On the one hand we have the mega vendors with proprietary technology. On the other hand we have millions of developers who love open source. In the business world, buyers of enterprise software like the idea of a single throat to choke, or at least a few throats. They don't like the notion of having to find a throat that can be choked. Millions of developers will likely say that open source provides the best way of ensuring that new software releases really are up to snuff, have been destruction tested and contain the best features possible. |
| March 7, 2011 |
| Citrix Adopts OpenStack for Project Olympus |
| Olympus is the legendary home of the Greek deities in the cloud. This week, Citrix launched its effort to bring the open source cloud technology to the home of Zeus with Project Olympus. |
| May 27, 2011 |
| Cloudera cranks out fresh Hadoop distro |
| Cloudera has released a third version of its open source Hadoop distribution, boasting that the distro tightly integrates several other Apache-licensed projects designed to run in tandem with the distributed number-crunching platform. |
| April 12, 2011 |
| Connector Integrates Open-Xchange With SugarCRM |
| A new connector for open-source collaboration platform Open-Xchange provides integration with SugarCRM, allowing for contact and calendar information to be synchronized between the two products, Open-Xchange said on Monday. |
| April 4, 2011 |
| Cutting the cost of innovation |
| Open source software might be free to download, but it ends up costing as much as traditional software because of the complexities of supporting it, or inflexible licensing structures. Or so the argument goes. |
| March 22, 2011 |
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| DataStax goes 'open core' with Facebook's Cassandra |
| DataStax — the outfit that commercialized the Cassandra distributed database originally open sourced by Facebook — will soon release two new software packages based on the "NoSQL" platform. |
| September 21, 2011 |
| Did HP just give webOS 'a death sentence'? |
| As an open-source project with uncertain backing, webOS has a tough road ahead of it, analysts said on Friday. |
| December 12, 2011 |
| DIY: Create tests in the open source tool TCExam |
| TCExam is a powerful, free, computer-based exam system. Jack Wallen explains the multi-step process necessary to create tests in the software |
| January 12, 2012 |
| DOJ forces changes in Novell patent deal |
| A partnership that includes Microsoft and Apple agreed to modify the terms of its acquisition of some Novell patents in order to satisfy antitrust regulators worried about the impact on open-source software. |
| April 20, 2011 |
| Dropbox snuffs open code that bypassed file-sharing controls |
| Dropbox — the San Francisco startup that offers a free service for sharing files over the net — has suppressed a fledgling open source project that lets anyone use the service outside of its control, saying the project exposed Dropbox's proprietary protocol and could be used for piracy. |
| April 26, 2011 |
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| EnterpriseDB launches PostgreSQL Plus Cloud Service |
| EnterpriseDB, with the help of a few friends, is offering cloud-based database products. It hopes that the combination of open source technology, Oracle database compatibility and cloud-based pricing will entice organizations to consider cloud computing. |
| January 30, 2012 |
| EU Funding Could Hurt Open Source Licensing, Critics Say |
| The Pirate Party's representative in the European Parliament has warned that a new European Union funding package for IT innovation could seriously damage open source licensing. |
| December 1, 2011 |
| Ex-NASA man stuffs OpenStack with Paxos |
| One of the NASA brains behind the project that became OpenStack is taking the wraps off a start-up that promises an enterprise-grade cloud using open source. |
| September 27, 2011 |
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| Facebook server secrets open-sourced |
| If you work in corporate IT, or you just share an affinity or passion around high-end server technology and datacenter infrastructure, you'll be pleased with Facebook's latest move. The company is opening up on its datacenter design, sharing everything from the manufacturer, make, and model of the servers that keep Facebook online and available at all times to the way its datacenter is powered and cooled to keep those servers running happily. |
| April 11, 2011 |
| FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org? |
| Oracle suddenly announced Wednesday it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, ending speculation about the open-source productivity suite's fate following Oracle's recent announcement it would be transitioned to a "solely community-based project." |
| June 2, 2011 |
| Five Linux Distributions Get a Fresh Boost |
| Between the launch of a new Linux kernel update and the news that open source has achieved mainstream business use at last, it's been an exciting week in the world of open source software. |
| May 20, 2011 |
| Ford unveils OpenXC, invites open-source applications |
| Ford wants developers to create a broad array of connectivity applications that can be used in conjunction with its cars, and it launched its OpenXC platform Monday to promote that effort. |
| September 12, 2011 |
| Four Strange Places to Find Open Source |
| Open source is about more than code: it's about unlocking all possibilities. Here are four unusual projects made possible by open source. |
| November 8, 2011 |
| Free Software Foundation favors LibreOffice over OpenOffice |
| When Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project, some open-source developers were not happy. The Document Foundation's LibreOffice programmers were really not pleased. Now, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is coming out against the deal. |
| June 10, 2011 |
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| 'Google-like IT automation for the rest of us:' Puppet and Chef |
| Chef and Puppet -- open source-based services available through the cloud -- enable management of data centers of any size. |
| October 27, 2011 |
| Get a budget-minded blog platform (and more) with WordPress |
| Ryan Boudreaux goes over the basics of installing the WordPress blogging platform -- an open source alternative that could save dollars for budget-minded organizations. |
| November 1, 2011 |
| Git Gets Enterprise Equipped |
| Developer tool provider AccuRev will release a package designed to help enterprises incorporate the increasingly popular Git open source version-control software into their development operations, the company announced Tuesday. |
| January 31, 2012 |
| Gnash 0.8.9 advances open source Flash |
| Apple isn't the only group that has trouble with Adobe's Flash. The open source community, and specifically the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have issues too, though the FSF's issues are around openness. |
| March 21, 2011 |
| GNOME 3 Released |
| The day is finally here, the day that the GNOME team releases GNOME 3.0, the first major revision of the GNOME project since 2002. Little of GNOME 2.x is left in GNOME 3.0, and as such, you could call it GNOME's KDE4. We're living in fortunate times, what, with two wildly divergent open source desktops. |
| April 6, 2011 |
| Google slips open source JPEG killer into Gmail, Picasa |
| Google has announced that Gmail and Picasa as well as its Chrome browser are now using WebP, the image compression format it open sourced last fall in an effort to replace the aging JPEG standard. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Growl now costs $2--and that's just fine |
| Growl, a widely used open-source notification tool that lets Mac OS X applications tell users about events such as incoming instant messages, is no longer free. |
| November 10, 2011 |
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| HortonWorks Hones a Hadoop Distribution |
| Yahoo spinoff company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, called the Hortonworks Data Platform, the company announced Tuesday. |
| November 1, 2011 |
| How Bill Gates changed Microsoft's stance on open source |
| When you think of Microsoft, friend of open source probably isn't one of the things thy comes to mind, but the company's been keeping an eye on the community for a while now. A new article from Wired shows how the company has been changing its stance, maybe even to the point of embracing it. |
| January 30, 2012 |
| How Many Open Source Projects Does It Take To Build A Cloud? |
| Red Hat's cloud solutions include a long list of open source projects to create a cloud foundation. |
| April 4, 2011 |
| How open source is transforming the publishing industry |
| Jack Wallen is one of the many in the midst of a revolution. Find out how Linux and other open source software titles are empowering independent authors and filling an important niche in the publishing industry. |
| August 22, 2011 |
| How the open source community reacts to poor design |
| In the true spirit of the open source way, a movement has started to help Ubuntu Unity improve its new desktop. But can this effort actually make a difference? Read on to find out what's going on. |
| June 20, 2011 |
| How Wireless Carriers and Manufacturers Screw Up Android |
| Google recently unveiled its new Android design guidelines, which are meant to help people develop apps for its open-source smartphone and tablet operating system. The guidelines work in tandem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich's visual overhaul, which was designed to "enchant" smartphone and tablet users in a way that Android's previous, bare-bones iterations, did not. |
| February 2, 2012 |
| HP donates WebOS system code to open source developers |
| The code behind the mobile operating system, WebOS, is being released to open source software developers by Hewlett Packard. |
| December 9, 2011 |
| HP open sources WebOS, challenges Android's fragmentation issues |
| Hewlett-Packard announced on Friday that it is turning webOS software over to the open source community while still remaining a participant and investor in the project. |
| December 9, 2011 |
| HP open sources WebOS: The fallout |
| WebOS' ultimate open source fate remains to be seen, but rest assured there could be some disruption ahead for the smartphone industry. |
| December 9, 2011 |
| HP outlines schedule for full WebOS open source release |
| HP has announced the schedule for the open sourcing of WebOS tools and source code, and said it will be continuing to push development hard to build a truly open platform. |
| January 25, 2012 |
| HP posts Pre 3 WebOS update |
| The patch, which takes the open source operating system to 2.2.4, is being pushed out to European and US Pre 3s. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| HP throws WebOS to open source community |
| HP will bite the bullet and dump the WebOS operating system on the open source community. |
| December 9, 2011 |
| HP webOS open source begins -- what next? |
| HP is divulging how the open sourcing of webOS will take place, but there are still some questions to address about the viability of the platform. |
| January 26, 2012 |
| HP's way forward? Commoditize software, buy Red Hat |
| With Hewlett-Packard's strategy day a week away, analysts are placing their bets on what CEO Leo Apotheker will outline. After HP's last quarter, expectations are low, but Cowen analyst Peter Goldmacher has an intriguing idea that could be quite disruptive. |
| March 7, 2011 |
| HP: webOS Will Be Fully Open-Sourced By September |
| HP will release components of webOS for the next six months until it's fully in the hands of the community by September. |
| January 26, 2012 |
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| IBM launches Hadoop-based analytics software |
| IBM said today that it will invest $100 million on research for analytics and big data projects and expanded its portfolio accordingly. The company also launched Hadoop-based services. |
| May 20, 2011 |
| IBM Open Sources Messaging Client for Embedded Devices |
| In a move to bring network connectivity to a wider range of devices, sensors and appliances, IBM has donated the source code of its machine-to-machine messaging software to the Eclipse Foundation, the company announced Thursday. |
| November 3, 2011 |
| Is open source no longer a differentiator? |
| In this programming news roundup, read about Mango SDK beta, PHP 5.4 alpha, IronPython 2.7.1 beta, a Gil cheat sheet, StackOverflow DevDays, and more. |
| July 4, 2011 |
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| Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS vendors |
| Red Hat's OpenShift is the first in a series of platform-as-a-service offerings to feature Jaspersoft's suite |
| January 12, 2012 |
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| Let's get commercial |
| IT people already know the benefits of open source software. A fair number of them run Linux at home (not least, according to one chief technical officer, so they can deny all knowledge of recent editions of Windows to friends and family wanting off-duty technical support), and persuading them to use it at work is not a hard sell. These are the people Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu's commercial champion Canonical, describes as "insightful visionaries". |
| March 23, 2011 |
| LibreOffice Moves Forward without Apache |
| Open source fork of OpenOffice.org gets a new release as Oracle donates code to Apache. |
| June 3, 2011 |
| Linux Kernel Update Brings a New Wave of Hardware Support |
| Updates to the Linux kernel are always exciting because of the advance look they provide at what's to come in upcoming Linux distributions, and Thursday's 2.6.39 release is no exception. |
| May 19, 2011 |
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| MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support |
| The XML-powered data store specializes in handling unstructured information |
| November 1, 2011 |
| Miro 4 bulks up from music to media management |
| The Participatory Culture Foundation has released version 4 of its popular cross-platform, open-source audio and video player. Miro 4 sees the application transform from a powerful video player into a more all-purpose media management tool. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Microsoft commits to Windows makeover for Node.js |
| Redmond is working with cloud computing vendor Joyrnt to port Node to Windows, a move that will produce a Node.exe, according to a post on the Node blog. Joyent employs Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. |
| June 23, 2011 |
| Microsoft will beat Linux clouds at their own game - with open source |
| Amazon may dominate public cloud computing, but not amongst the Microsoft groupies. Microsoft has managed to be an end-to-end cradle-to-grave supplier within the data centre, and is attempting to extend this motherly embrace to the cloud with its Azure platform. |
| December 16, 2011 |
| Microsoft woos open-sourcers to float Hyper-V clouds |
| Microsoft is working with an Apache-licensed open-source project to make Hyper-V and Windows Servers an integral part of cloud-computing infrastructure. |
| September 29, 2011 |
| Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source |
| At Oscon 2011, Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, said as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open, that is, open surface, customers don't care about the underlying platform. |
| July 27, 2011 |
| MIT and Google open-source App Inventor code, public release of MIT's version on track for April |
| You guys probably know this by now, but I was a fan of App Inventor. Watching my wife use it to create her own application just sucked me in, and I loved the whole idea of a way for anyone to make an Android app. When we heard that Google was shutting it down, I was sad, but the news that MIT was going to pick up the pieces and run with it lifted my spirits again. |
| January 24, 2012 |
| MIT open-sources online learning |
| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology started giving away the content of its courses over the Web 10 years ago. Now it plans to give away its online learning software, too. |
| December 19, 2011 |
| Mozilla ditches Messaging wing, eyes social webby sweetshop |
| Mozilla has folded its Messaging subsidiary into the open source outfit's Lab division as it slowly backs away from the development of client-based email software. |
| April 5, 2011 |
| Mozilla to Firefox users: Ditch crashtastic McAfee plugin |
| Mozilla is advising Firefox users to disable a McAfee plugin that the open-source browser supplier blames for a high volume of crashes. |
| October 05, 2011 |
| Mozilla WebAPI: champion of open source freedom |
| As a group, open-source developers tend to be a freedom-loving bunch. If only their fans were the same. Even as open source has become a mainstream way to build software, many of its biggest beneficiaries opt to contribute little to nothing back. |
| August 26, 2011 |
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| Nasa clears the runway for open source software |
| The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency’s open source software development. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| NASA Nebula cloud spans nine space centers |
| NASA's Nebula project — an Amazon-like "infrastructure cloud" for use within the federal government — is now being used across nine NASA centers, including the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and its headquarters in Washington. |
| April 26, 2011 |
| Never underestimate the amount of open source software available |
| Jack Wallen is fond of making bold claims. Here, he makes yet one more with regards to the amount of open source software available to meet the needs of business users. Read on and see if you agree with Jack. |
| August 15, 2011 |
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| Open Source Advocates Angry at German Gov't Decision |
| The German Foreign Office announced it was dropping its policy of using only open source software in February prompting an inquiry by the green Bündnis 90/Grüne party. But the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) said that the government's responses to this inquiry have "led to more pending questions than answers." |
| May 13, 2011 |
| Open source cloud-builder respawn: Eucalyptus 3.0 looms |
| Marten Mickos and Eucalyptus have pumped new life into their build-your-own—cloud platform, revamping its approach to open source while adding new code designed to protect users from catastrophic failures. |
| August 24, 2011 |
| Open source foiled Microsoft antitrust case |
| Microsoft, seen as a threat to innovation, prompted U.S. oversight a decade ago. That ends this week. |
| May 11, 2011 |
| Open Source Jobs: What's Hot, Where to Look, What to Learn |
| What does the future hold for eager, talented software developers, and people with related essential skill sets? The overriding trend, as in all industries, is you're on your own, chum. But free/open source software (FOSS) offers considerably more richness of opportunity than anything else. Let's peer into the crystal ball and see what the future holds. |
| October 22, 2011 |
| Open Source management gains traction in the Microsoft cloud |
| I know that people still look at you askance when you use the words "Microsoft" and "open source" in the same sentence, unless, of course, you are discussing litigation. |
| November 22, 2011 |
| Open Source Skype Alternative "GNU Free Call" In The Works |
| The GNU Project has announced a new project called GNU Free Call, an open source Skype alternative that will offer anonymous VoIP and will use the GNU SIP Witch server as the back end: |
| March 21, 2011 |
| Open Source Software Is Now a Norm in Businesses |
| We've already seen mounting evidence that the numerous benefits of open source software are making a big impression on businesses far and wide, and this week saw the release of yet more data corroborating that fact. |
| May 18, 2011 |
| Open source software users voluntarily pay more |
| Who are the biggest cheapskates of the consumer software market? Hint: They are not the users of the least expensive operating systems. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Open source's UI handicap explains Google's Honeycomb move |
| Google is reportedly holding back Android 3.0 Honeycomb code from open source developers in a move that's causing a good bit of angst. However, the move may make some sense considering the high stakes in the tablet market. |
| March 25, 2011 |
| Open source's people problem |
| Projects are multiplying, yet a shortage of in-house skills could slow them down. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| Open-source analytics options grow |
| The options for open-source data warehousing and analytics grew on Tuesday, with a number of announcements from Infobright, Jaspersoft and Ingres. |
| June 14, 2011 |
| Open-source BPM startup BonitaSoft raises $11 million |
| A recent Gartner survey found that business process management spending will increase significantly this year, with 54 percent of medium and large companies planning a 5 percent increase or more in their BPM spending this year and 20 percent of companies planning to up their BPM spending by at least 10 percent. |
| September 14, 2011 |
| Open-source Duqu detector toolkit released |
| The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) in Hungary has released an open-source toolkit that can find traces of Duqu infections on computer networks. |
| November 10, 2011 |
| Open-source Scala gains commercial backing |
| The open-source Scala programming language is getting a big boost today in form of venture-funding for a new start-up. |
| May 12, 2011 |
| Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job |
| In the midst of a weakening global economy and rampant uncertainty as to when the recession will lift from North America and Western Europe, one thing is certain: open-source technology skills may be the best hope for landing a good job. |
| November 29, 2011 |
| Open-Xchange's new mobile client has offline access |
| Open-source collaboration platform provider Open-Xchange has a released Mobile Web App, which gives smartphone users online and offline access to appointments, e-mails and contacts while on the road, the company said on Tuesday. |
| May 11, 2011 |
| OpenSim open-source software from Stanford accurately models human motion |
| There are 640 muscles in the human body, or maybe it is 639. Or maybe it is 850. Or 656. It all depends on whom you ask. In any case, it is a lot. Stanford bioengineer Scott Delp knows; he has programmed almost every one into his latest work, OpenSim, a software application that helps medical professionals and bioengineers study, diagnose and correct abnormalities in how people move. |
| October 28, 2011 |
| OpenStack Cloud Hits Cactus Release |
| Open source cloud computing platform advances with enhanced API and authentication in new Cactus release. |
| April 18, 2011 |
| One help desk API to unite them all |
| Businesses everywhere have embraced open source as a way to increase innovation and drive down software acquisition costs. Unfortunately, open source doesn't solve an even bigger problem companies have: making their software/systems talk to each other. Whether you're Chevron or Sam's Truck Stop, at some point you're going to want two disparate systems to talk to each other. |
| July 1, 2011 |
| Oracle Debuts GlassFish Server 3, Improving JavaEE 6 Middleware |
| Prior to Sun Microsystems being acquired by Oracle, the GlassFish open source Java middleware server was the company's primary reference architecture for JavaEE. While some had speculated that GlassFish's future was questionable under Oracle's direction, that's not how things have actually turned out. |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Oracle Further Commercializes MySQL Database |
| Oracle has added additional commercial extensions to the enterprise edition of its open-source MySQL database, further differentiating it from the community version available to anyone at no charge. |
| September 16, 2011 |
| Oracle mounts Cloudera's elephant for big data ride |
| When Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison clambered onto his own Big Data elephant back in October as his company announced the Big Data Appliance, Oracle gave the impression that it would be rolling up its own implementation of the open-source Apache Hadoop data muncher. This turns out to be not true. |
| January 10, 2012 |
| Oracle Turns to Apache for OpenOffice |
| From the blogs: Oracle donates the open source OpenOffice.org project to the Apache Software Foundation. Is it too little too late? |
| June 1, 2011 |
| Oracle VM 3.0 launch - the hypervisor battle heats up |
| VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat and the open source community have all been trying to take the hypervisor high ground. Oracle has just jumped into the battle with guns blazing. Can Oracle unseat VMware? |
| August 24, 2011 |
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| Pentaho Open Sources 'big Data' Integration Tools Under Apache 2.0 |
| BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in the 4.3 release of its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Monday. |
| January 30, 2012 |
| Prefer Open Source? Join the Crowd |
| If ever there was a year to demonstrate why open source software is a smart choice for businesses, 2011 has surely been it. |
| October 21, 2011 |
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| Razor-qt: A New Linux Desktop Alternative |
| Among GNOME 3, Ubuntu Linux's Unity, and Windows 8's Metro, there's no denying that desktop environments have become a hot topic in 2011. More specifically, mobile-inspired interfaces are becoming increasingly commonplace, challenging users to accept a whole new paradigm in the desktop world. |
| December 27, 2011 |
| Research identifies benefits of the open source software market |
| The study features a two-sided model of competition between commercial open source software (COSS) firms, which allows the research to determine the benefits of COSS. |
| August 16, 2011 |
| Red Hat Launches OpenShift PaaS |
| Linux vendor takes aim at the cloud with new PaaS and IaaS initiatives, but they're not all open source, yet. |
| May 4, 2011 |
| Red Hat Proves That Open Source Is Good for Business |
| Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded if it is to serve as the basis for a successful business. Well, Red Hat just refuted such claims in a big way this week with its fourth quarter earnings report, which blew away analysts' expectations and placed the company well on track for billion-dollar revenues in the upcoming year. |
| March 25, 2011 |
| Red Hat-IBM pact, OVI launch will drive more KVM use in enterprise |
| Like its parent operating system, Linux, and its open source rival, Xen, the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor is said to be ready for prime time enterprise use. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Red Hat: Nearing $1 billion in revenue; Not bad for free software |
| Red Hat delivered a strong fourth quarter and is on track to be the first pure play open source company to hit $1 billion in annual revenue. |
| March 23, 2011 |
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| Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others |
| It could be that Sam Ramji is just an eternal optimist. While many free software advocates warn that the cloud could kill open source, because users won't have access to the source code, Ramji disagrees. He says that work is going on now to eliminate the legal liabilities of contributing to open source. |
| October 10, 2011 |
| Shouldn't Linux embrace DRM? |
| Digital Rights Management is a hotbed of anger, misunderstanding, and debate in the open source community. Having a vested interest in DRM, Jack Wallen asks the question, "Shouldn't Linux embrace DRM?" |
| May 31, 2011 |
| So, want to manage a cloud with open-source software? |
| The sad, bad secret about cloud-computing is that setting up a cloud and running an application on any of them is relatively easy, managing it though, that's another thing entirely. That's where companies like Convirture come in. |
| August 23, 2011 |
| Spanish ERP company flexes open-source muscle |
| Most open-source companies rely on business models (and development models) that aim to leverage large global communities of users and developers. The goal? Monetize some percentage of a very large number of community members. So it's hard to imagine a more unlikely candidate for an open source play than Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), an industry dominated by big enterprise proprietary vendors such as Oracle and SAP that sell to Global 2000 organizations. |
| June 10, 2011 |
| Survey: 56% expect that more than half of all software spend over next 5 years will be open source |
| More than half of all software purchases made over the next five years will be open source, according to half of all respondents in a significant survey released today. |
| May 16, 2011 |
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| Talend brings unified data integration platform to public clouds |
| Talend, an open-source middleware provider, today announced Talend Cloud, a unified integration platform for the cloud and hybrid IT environments. |
| June 8, 2011 |
| The Future of the OpenStack Open Source Cloud |
| I've been following the open source OpenStack cloud effort since it was first announced in June of 2010. I mean come on, how many times does a tech journalist like me get to interview NASA about enterprise open source tech? |
| May 23, 2011 |
| The future is now |
| To allow web applications run on four screens, the webinos project consortium creates a full open source code base. The tagerted technology will allow different devices and applications to work together, securely, seamlessly and interoperably. Most recentely, the consortium has summarized the first research results in four reports covering use cases, security, technical requirments and industry landscape. |
| April 4, 2011 |
| The importance of donating to open source projects (and a giveaway!) |
| Bodhi Linux is having a giveaway for a Dell Duo, and Jack Wallen wants not only to make you aware of it, but also the importance of donating to open source projects. |
| September 19, 2011 |
| The OpenStack juggernaut |
| The OpenStack collaborative industry effort to build an open source cloud platform is to be applauded for the remarkable gains it has achieved in a short amount of time. Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA in July last year, the organization is now backed by 120 companies, including the likes of HP, Dell, Intel and Cisco, and has already issued four major code releases, the last of which, Diablo, just came out last month and has already been downloaded 50,000 times. |
| October 10, 2011 |
| Thunderbird 8 Beta released -- get it now! |
| Mozilla has unveiled the next two pre-releases of its messaging client. Thunderbird 8 Beta follows sibling browser Firefox 8 Beta in changing the way it handles add-ons. Other changes are less noticeable. Attachment lists are said to be more accessible, while a number of unspecified platform fixes and user interface tweaks have also been implemented. |
| October 05, 2011 |
| Thunderbird 7 ships -- with several annoying bugs |
| Mozilla has updated its popular email tool, Thunderbird, to version 7. Thunderbird 7.0 Final follows Firefox 7 out of the door, while Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.4, its all-in-one suite, comprising functionality from Firefox and Thunderbird, has also been released, incorporating the improvements in Firefox 7 into its own build. |
| September 28, 2011 |
| Tired of Patent Wars? Use Open Source Instead |
| As a geek and longtime tech reporter, there are few things I love writing about more than cool new technological innovations. It never ceases to amaze me what we humans can come up with, particularly when some good technology is fueling the effort. |
| August 23, 2011 |
| Twitter to Open Source Streaming Data Analyzer |
| Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analyzing live large-scale data streams, called Storm. |
| August 5, 2011 |
| Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You |
| It's unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized infrastructure-management software they've already chosen, analysts say. So where does open source fit in the cloud world? Think lock-in and migration flexibility. |
| April 20, 2011 |
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| U.S. Gov't Lessons Learned from Open Source |
| New report provides guidance and best practices on how to leverage open source. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| Updated Sybase IQ supports Hadoop, MapReduce, 'Big Data' |
| Release 15.4 of the Sybase analytic database hops on the 'Big Data' train |
| November 1, 2011 |
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| VMware Goes Open Source with Cloud Foundry |
| VMware is taking aim at the cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business. |
| April 13, 2011 |
| VMware open sources Microsoft Azure killer |
| VMware has open sourced a new platform for building application development services along the lines of Microsoft Azure or Google App Engine, hoping to spawn an army of so-called "platform clouds" that aren't run by Microsoft or Google. |
| April 12, 2011 |
| VMware turns shrink ray on open source dev cloud |
| On Wednesday, the virtualization giant introduced Micro Cloud Foundry, a free downloadable version of its Cloud Foundry service that runs on a single laptop. This past spring, when VMware unveiled Cloud Foundry and open sourced the code behind it, the company indicated it would eventually offer a shrunken incarnation that would allow developers to test applications on their local machines. |
| August 24, 2011 |
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| Want webOS on your Android tablet? HP hopes so |
| You may or may not have seen HP's plans from last month on open-sourcing webOS. We did, and had a few words to say ourselves. HP has now good on releasing a roadmap for its open-source release and is fully open-sourcing the Enyo application framework. |
| January 26, 2012 |
| What is open source? [Android A to Z] |
| What is open source? Open-source software is software that makes the source code freely available, for anyone to see and use. There are different open-source licenses that have different use conditions, from the GPL (GNU General Public License) -- which allows "free distribution under the condition that further developments and applications are put under the same license" -- to more liberal licenses like the Apache License, which doesn't require modifications to be open and have the source code available. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| What is the Top Open Source License? |
| It all depends on how you ask the question. The most used license is not the same as the license used in the top downloaded open source apps. |
| May 16, 2011 |
| What's next with hypervisors? |
| The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. |
| December 13, 2011 |
| Winners and Losers in Business Open-Source Software |
| OpenLogic has released its annual report on what's hot and what's not in business open-source programs. |
| January 10, 2012 |
| Whisper open-sources Android text-encryption app |
| Whisper Systems has open-sourced TextSecure, its secure text messaging client for Android smartphones. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| Why free software really isn't (and shouldn't be) free |
| In this guest post, DarkDuck says both Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and proprietary software require some financial investment, but there are definite advantages of choosing FOSS. Do you agree? |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Why Some Open Source Projects Thrive at Oracle |
| Oracle exec explains how one open source project is succeeding at Oracle. |
| April 27, 2011 |
| Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed |
| It's too soon to declare that Hewlett-Packard has "dump[ed] webOS in the open source trash can", as my friend and mobile open source expert Fabrizio Capobianco insists. But it's also way too soon for HP to speculate on its action being any sort of victory, given the immense difficulties inherent in successfully open sourcing technology. |
| December 13, 2011 |
| Why we should allow DRM on open source platforms |
| The problems with DRM are many, but that does not mean we should prevent people from using it. There are good reasons to let them suffer the consequences of their own bad choices. |
| July 4, 2011 |
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| Yahoo Plans to Open Source Code for Non-core Technologies |
| Yahoo plans to release some technologies, including storage technologies, to the open source community, a senior executive of the company said. |
| March 28, 2011 |
| Yes you can make Google Docs templates but do you really want to? |
| The definition of template in Microsoft Word is not the same definition used by Google Docs and if you treat them the same you may reveal more than you want to reveal to a much bigger audience than you suspect. |
| July 20, 2011 |