Open Source Delivers

In and outside of Red Hat, the BYOD (bring your own device) trend has instilled a greater sense of power and ownership for professionals wanting control over the tools they use at work. As Red Hat’s CIO, I’ve noticed this shift. Today, instead of the IT department being the sole source of the technologies Red Hat associates [...]

Yesterday I spoke with Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst serving application development & delivery professionals at Forrester, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  Please check out the video, below, for Jeff’s take on the following: Cultural changes in development, and in particular, why developers write code outside their day jobs.  Jeff reports that 70-80 percent of [...]

Each day, when I get in my car and drive to work I think about the software business I’m involved in. Yet it seldom occurs to me that there are over 1 million lines of code running in the car that I’m riding in -And it just works! No bugs, log files, no visible defects [...]

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 [...]

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:

The Mobile World Congress took over the tech world this week, with many new product demonstrations and partnership announcements. Mozilla shared the news of its partnership with Telefónica to manufacture smartphones with the open source Boot 2 Gecko web operating system and Canonical demoed its new Ubuntu TV. But those weren’t the only open source [...]

This past weekend, GTUGs around the world met for a two-day hack-a-thon event to introduce Android application development to thousands of new people. The challenge was set to build an Android app, competing with other Google community groups around the world for global prizes. Local Android experts were available on site. I attended the local [...]

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 [...]

A Few Good Men?  Try a lot of good FOSS!  Open Source Delivers finds FOSS promotion everywhere… even in classic films! You can’t handle the FOSS! Son, we live in a world that has applications built with mixed IP, and those application have to be built by men with the best software. Who’s gonna do [...]

Many of the advances in automobile efficiency, performance and safety have been driven by software. And while cars may have a lot of embedded software in them, I never put them in the same category as my Smartphone (a mobile device).  But there’s been a spate of exciting developments that are about to revolutionize the [...]