Open Source Delivers

In last month’s Open Source and Innovation webinar, Editor-in-Chief of CRM Outsiders Chris Bucholtz, and I had the opportunity to speak with the Olliance Group’s Greg Olsen, about various aspects of the cloud including its future, the issue of security in the cloud, and the cloud’s role in the open source community. Naturally I was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Linux desktop was always thought to be a requirement for the full success of Linux. For, if the desktop interface wasn’t easy to use, cool even, then hundreds of millions of users out there would stick with alternatives.  But as Linux has grown in popularity and market share, the desktop has not lived up [...]

Full disclosure: I drive a 2002 Jeep Wrangler with 110,000 miles on it—probably the lowest tech car on the market the year it was built. I’m the only guy I know who rolls his own windows and still has a cassette player* in the dash. So, excuse the naïve wonderment at the new technology and [...]

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 [...]

I just got back from the Linux Foundation’s second Android Builders Summit (ABS) in Redwood City, California, where most of the approximately 250 attendees were hard-core, experienced embedded Linux developers. This was only the second year for ABS, but this two-day conference was packed with great technical sessions that explored the gamut of possibilities for [...]

With all the open source stories from the week, HP and Google seemed to be the ones that got the most attention. HP open sourced the code for the Android kernel that was accidentally shipped with a number of its TouchPad tablets last year. In other Android news, Google previewed the integrations of its new [...]