Open Source Delivers

Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed [...]

I had the pleasure of spending past three weeks on the road talking to many members of the automotive IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) software supply community in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Interestingly, a little-known fact:  IVI represents up to 80% of all software running in today’s premium class cars (up to 100 million lines of [...]

I recently spoke at the Electronics and Automotive show in Gothenburg, Sweden, the headquarters of Volvo and many other vehicle companies.  While there is strong interest in using open source in cars and trucks – the impact it’s had in other industries like mobile is partly the catalyst (as I asserted in a previous post) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lawyers and legal organizations play a more significant role in open source than in other technical communities.  One reason is that open source software (OSS) is such a unique and interesting form of intellectual property – it’s free of charge and easy to download, but not free of obligations.  As a result, we are frequently [...]

There are great parallels between were I started my career in the hardware world and the way software development has evolved. After last week’s Linux Collaboration Summit where I talked to a lot of people about “software supply chains,” I can’t get them off my mind. The earliest days of digital electronics involved designing at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week I attended EclipseCon 2012 in its new east coast location. It was a great conference, both in terms of speakers and attendees, and over the three days, I had the pleasure of talking with some of the top dogs in the Eclipse world, both in sessions and at the bar. I also got [...]