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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance of these open source development processes are lacking. The survey, conducted by BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk Riehle, head of the Open Source [...]

The big stories this week were the reunion of Android with Linux in the new kernel 3.3 release and the news of the Icelandic public sector’s year long program to move all its software from proprietary to open source. Read about these stories and more: Stephen Shankland reported on the inclusion of Android code in [...]

This week saw new companies joining the Linux Foundation, Microsoft open sourcing its scripting program and the VA naming the OSEHRA board of directors. Catch up on these stories and more: Mary Mosquera reported on the Department of Veteran Affairs OSEHRA board of director’s announcement in the Government Health IT article, “VA Open Source Group [...]