Open Source Delivers

This week’s open source news kicked off with SkySQL announcing its merger with MariaDB and the first batch of Firefox OS phones selling out within hours of going on sale. Catch up on these stories and find out what other open source stories were circulating this week: Ingrid Lunden reported on the merger between open [...]

The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence on everything from innovation, to collaboration among competitors, to hiring practices, is revolutionizing the way organizations work and do business. Check out the Open Revolutions: [...]

The Linux Foundation’s new OpenDaylight Project made its big debut this week. The collaborative project is being supported by a group of leading industry vendors and will provide an open source framework that organizations can build software-defined networking (SDN) products and services on top of. We’ll start this Weekly Wrap Up with some news highlights [...]

Inevitable.  Inextricable.  Imminent. Greeting Netizens.  Since you are reading this blog, you obviously belong to the “Internet of Persons,” a growing global population of 2.5 billion of your fellow human beings.   But as sentient surfers, you are not alone.  Joining you on the internet is a far more vast and increasingly ubiquitous army of connected [...]

Last week I attended POSSCON 2013, the Palmetto Open Source (POSS) Conference in Columbia, SC.  It occurs to me that we are now in the Post Open Source Software (POSS) Era.  I don’t want to confuse this idea with the recent discussion of how some developers appear to be ignoring licensing and calling it Post [...]

Google’s Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge has dominated technology news all week. The tech giant formally declared that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers over certain patents associated with the MapReduce data processing model it developed (unless it is first attacked). This was an important step for the company to state its support [...]

Open source in government was the big theme in this week’s open source news. For the first time ever, the UK government formally announced its preference for open source software over proprietary. It was also announced that the Chinese government will work with Ubuntu to develop an open source operating system for the nation’s markets. [...]

I have been involved with the Future of Open Source survey as both part of the analyst team at 451 Research conducting the study, and as a collaborator and promoter with SugarCRM. This survey has, for many years, provided both research and vendor perspectives with great insights into real decision-maker outlooks on how open source [...]

Although it may have seemed like the world revolved around the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference this week (technology, music and films are a winning combination), open source stories still managed to gain media traction. Netflix announced a new developer contest for open source cloud improvements and edX released a core element of its online [...]

While product launches, announcements and keynotes from CES seem to have taken over the web this week, a (somewhat) unlikely sector has made a lot of noise around open source technology… government. Not to be outdone by the recent open source news from Ubuntu and Ford, multiple government agencies have made news of their own [...]