Open Source Delivers

I had the opportunity to spend the past few days at EclipseCon Boston, talking with many seasoned, talented open source developers. One of the great things about the Eclipse crowd is that they take open source seriously, focusing on building industrial-strength software through the open source development model. In typical conference format, there have been keynote [...]

Sifting through the thousands of new open source projects that start each year is a refreshing, insightful process. As we completed our Rookies analysis of the new projects that hit the scene in 2012, I had a wonderful sense of the kind of impact that open source is making on the world in so many [...]

We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless.  But what about the many long-running projects that have been core to the world of open source for decades? The ones that have truly stood the test of [...]

Each day, when I get in my car and drive to work I think about the software business I’m involved in. Yet it seldom occurs to me that there are over 1 million lines of code running in the car that I’m riding in -And it just works! No bugs, log files, no visible defects [...]

With all eyes focused on the Olympics and the amazing feats from athletes the world over, we thought it might be nice to turn the Open Source Delivers spotlight to openness on a global scale, and all the great things countries are doing to benefit communities around the world.  Check out this video from Open [...]

Last week I had the privilege of attending OSCON 2012 in Portland, OR. While I regularly attend open source related events, this event is the biggest, baddest open source event of them all. With over 3,000 attendees, the best of the best were there and totally engaged in teaching, sharing, troubleshooting, organizing, and partying down [...]

Eucalyptus’s big open source move to Github has the tech media buzzing this week. Yet, it was only a few months ago that OpenStack and CloudStack were helping to stir up “cloud war” headlines. Given the recent open source play by Eucalyptus, which cloud platform do you think will best meet your needs? Don’t forget [...]

With all the momentum around moving enterprise software to the cloud, I was curious about the level of support from the open source world, not just relating to the obvious open source cloud initiatives, but also around the commercial cloud providers. So I searched the Black Duck KnowledgeBase and found ~2200 projects that were  cloud related [...]

There are 32 flavors – and then some! – of open source projects, and selecting the “right” one for your needs is crucial.  As the latest Future of Open Source Survey suggested, many developers select projects based on the size of the community, availability of commercial support, and project maturity.  We’d like to take this [...]

On the mobile o/s battlefield there are three Linux-based operating systems fighting to establish themselves along with the big boys of Android and iOS. Two of these are relatively new – Tizen and Bada – and the third, Palm/Web OS, is making a play to regain its previous stardom. With Android and iOS holding shares [...]