Open Source Delivers

Yes, today is the Facebook IPO debut, but it’s not the only thing that happened in the technology world this week. Red Hat’s signature open source platform turned ten, the Apache Foundation reported unprecedented growth, new mobile project data was released and Tizen is running Android apps!? Warning: no Facebook IPO stories below! May 15th [...]

Dell dominated a lot of the tech news this week, announcing a new OEM partnership with Red Hat and building an open source laptop for developers. Read about announcements from Dell, HP, The Document Foundation and more: Clint Boulton reported on the news that Dell is designing an open source computer with its new Project [...]

Two top universities are collaborating on free online courseware, the European Union is developing an open source toolkit, Facebook’s Open Compute Project is gaining new members and you may be able to carry your desktop in your pocket sooner than you think. Here’s what happened in open source this week: Barb Darrow reported on the [...]

After weeks of buzz around the so-called “cloud wars,” the Linux Foundation has announced it will host a vendor-neutral open source cloud conference called CloudOpen. From the cloud to new open source advances in government, and a new interview with Red Hat’s CEO, we’ve got you covered with all the open source headlines from this [...]

This is Big Data Week, where different cities and organizations across the globe host community meetups to discuss everything data. With 1 Day 9 Hours 13 Minutes and 22 Seconds (roughly) left of Big Data Week, we wanted to know how many of you have participated in this week’s data-filled festivities. Answer our poll and [...]

Although the cloud industry buzz has continued from last week, this week also saw new open source announcements. Certainly the most talked about news was Google’s Open Networking Summit announcement that it has updated its internal networks with an open source technology called OpenFlow. Read more about OpenFlow and other open source stories from this [...]

From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, cloud, social media and auto…and you’re not going to miss any of it! Scott Merrill reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s announcement of its [...]

There were a lot of organizations making open source announcements this week: Yahoo!, Facebook and Tufts University. However, none caused as big a stir as Citrix submitting CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation, increasing competition in the cloud computing space. Here are these stories and more: Gigaom’s Ryan Lawler reported on Yahoo! open sourcing Mojito: [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about Nokia and Microsoft partnering on the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) lately, including concern over amount of apps available for the platform (especially when compared to the iPhone and Android app juggernauts).  We want to know what you think:

Without a doubt, the biggest story in open source this week was the news that Red Hat would be the first $1 billion open source company.  This announcement sparked a media fire and had all the tech bloggers weighing in on what Red Hat’s success means for open source software. Red Hat’s CEO, Jim Whitehurst, [...]