Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

This blog was originally published by SandHill.com It’s exciting to see the evolution of Open Source evident in findings in our Future of Open Source survey over the past five years. Open Source has now moved beyond the tipping point it reached last year in the private sector and now is mainstream in businesses of all [...]

It was another week filled with open source announcements. HP, Hortonworks and Ford all made news with new open source offerings. Here are this week’s highlights: Ravi Mandalia wrote about the UK Cabinet Office Director of ICT Futures’s recent supporting statements about open source software, “Liam Maxwell: “Open Source is the Future Model for Delivering [...]

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 [...]

It’s the first week of 2012 and the open source world is starting the year off with a bang! Apache has launched Hadoop 1.0, Mozilla released the MPL 2.0 and NASA has started a new website to host their open source projects and encourage discussions around open source. Here is a sample of these stories [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: Linux celebrated its 20th birthday, Eclipse turned 10 and LibreOffice surpassed the 1 year mark. The tech world grieved the loss of a visionary and [...]

(with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, whose “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” is now in the public domain) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and in my home office Not a creature was stirring, not even my mouse; The code strings were hung by the mind’s eye with care, In hopes that St. Linus soon would [...]

The seasons are changing, the temperature is dropping, and the world of open source continues to turn. Here are your open source news highlights from this past week: Julie Bort’s NetworkWorld article, “Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source ‘inevitable’ for Microsoft, others,” shares the former Microsoft employee’s views on how the cloud will lead to [...]

An often overlooked benefit of open source is its impact on corporate culture. Open source helps corporations engender an ethos of openness which impacts more than code itself. At Yahoo! and elsewhere, I see three aspects of these changes: Information abundance changes the economics of information management. OSS can commoditize and standardize platforms, creating new [...]