Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

In last month’s Open Source and Innovation webinar, Editor-in-Chief of CRM Outsiders Chris Bucholtz, and I had the opportunity to speak with the Olliance Group’s Greg Olsen, about various aspects of the cloud including its future, the issue of security in the cloud, and the cloud’s role in the open source community. Naturally I was [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

Big companies have long been using popular open source projects – that’s nothing new.  What is new, however, are big companies taking on support of projects that already have a corporate sponsor. Revolution Analytics recently found itself in this position. The corporate sponsor of the R big data language recently found out that Oracle will [...]

Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final conclusions about an open source effort. It’s not like the iPhone and its seemingly instant market penetration. Few understand this better than Josh McKenty. McKenty, [...]

The rise of SaaS, software delivered as a service, is having an enormously disruptive impact on the software industry. Forrester Research estimates that spending on SaaS technology will double by 2013, representing 16% of all software spend.  Gartner Research estimates that SaaS software spend is growing at 18%, compounded annually, and will reach $23B by [...]

As open source predictions for 2012 continue to be shared, some trends are already starting to emerge. AT&T has launched a new cloud offering, the mobile space saw the release of Tizen’s OS source code and open source methodologies are helping to advance the medical research field. Here are some highlights from these stories and [...]

Open source projects will be smaller, with fewer contributors – but there will be more new projects.   Large, multi-vendor projects such as OpenStack are typically formed in the early stages of an emerging market.   There have been a number of new collaborations around cloud technologies, but the growth this year will be in more focused [...]