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 [...]

No one knows the importance of communities more than community leaders. Yes, many of us are on Twitter and attending local networking meet-ups such as The Community Roundtable’s CRLive lunches, but I haven’t found a local get-together specifically for the folks who manage high-tech virtual communities in the Greater Boston area to dive deep on [...]

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 [...]

At the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit a couple weeks ago, the Linux Foundation announced their annual “Who Writes Linux?” report. Amanda McPherson of TLF blogged about it on April 3, and her comments about what we can extract from the numbers ring true: the Linux Kernel is receiving more and more attention from companies and [...]

Following last year’s Think Tank event, three topics became more important for SAP: security, long-term support and co-innovation in our developer community. Security is vitally important for every single customer. We need to take seriously any detected security vulnerability, including open source software that we are including in our solutions. Making sure that open source [...]

Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, working with 451 Research, are conducting the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey.  I took the survey, but one question caused me concern, considering what I do for a living.  Question 11 states, “OSS forges and foundations have played an important role in the past few [...]

The concept of super communities and industries organizing together to collaboratively solve problems is highly relevant to HP and our most important community – our customers. HP works closely – and continuously – with customers to help their businesses grow and open source software continues to play an increasingly important role. We believe it is [...]

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: [...]

Last summer, the US Department of Veterans Affairs launched OSEHRA, the central governing body of a new open source software community focused on electronic health records. The community is growing rapidly, with more than 750 members from industry, government, and academia so far. VA has contributed its VistA EHR software, and many community members are [...]

Nowadays it seems everyone is engaged in social activities through Facebook, Google+, Twitter and an onslaught of other social offerings. Most of these offerings are proprietary, managed by large commercial entities. And while they often propagate ‘open’ standards, integrating with or even building your own software environment on top of these is a daunting and often [...]