It was another week filled with open source announcements. HP, Hortonworks and Ford all made news with new open source offerings. Here are this week’s highlights:
- Ravi Mandalia wrote about the UK Cabinet Office Director of ICT Futures’s recent supporting statements about open source software, “Liam Maxwell: “Open Source is the Future Model for Delivering IT.”
- TechNewWorld published Jay Lyman’s article, “Open APIs Are the New Open Source,” that suggests openness in APIs is just as important as open source code in OSS.
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols discussed the finding of a recent Linux Foundation job survey in his ZDNet blog, “Linux: It’s Where the Jobs Are.”
- “Open Sourcers Drop Software Religion for Common Sense” was written by Cade Metz on Wired.
- Katherine Noyes published “WebOS Gets a Brand-New Browser” on PCWorld about HP’s Iris announcement.
- Ford’s announcement of the new OpenXC open source research platform was covered on ubergizmo by Edwin Kee, “Ford OpenXC Open Source Car.”
- eWeek’s Darryl K. Taft covered the launch of the Hadoop training and certification program, “Hortonworks University Opens for Hadoop Training, Certification.”
Hear developers from Open Source Rookies projects Eclipse Orion and Apache Rave, share their perspectives on the benefits of associating FOSS projects with foundations at upcoming webinar, Code Well and Prosper with OSS Foundations.
