Open Source Delivers

The Mobile World Congress took place this week and quickly became the platform for a number of open source mobile announcements. Mozilla shared the many mobile partners that have committed to support its FireFox OS and LG acquired HP’s webOS. And that was only the beginning of the week! So much open source news, so little [...]

There was a great deal of debate this week over whether or not the city of Munich saved money by migrating its software to open source alternatives. The city originally estimated that its LiMux project would save them millions. However, a new report by HP on behalf of Microsoft claims that’s not the case. Get [...]

HP became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, CloudStack had its first open source code release and LinuxCon Europe took place in Barcelona. Get all the details on these stories and more: “HP Bets Big on Linux” was Katherine Noyes’s PCWorld article on HP’s new Linux Foundation platinum membership. Linus Torvald’s LinuxCon Europe panel [...]

After the destruction done to the U.S. Atlantic coast by Hurricane Sandy, open data and croudsourcing are helping to provide disaster relief. The hurricane (now being referred to as “Frankenstorm”) devastated the Eastern coast, causing extreme flooding and power outages, displacing thousands and even closing down the NYSE and NY Subway for days. As in [...]

With the excitement from last week’s Linux events dying down, HP, Netflix, Facebook, Alcatel-Lucent and even the White House released open source code this week!  Learn about all these new open source projects and more: Katherine Noyes discussed the new Open WebOS beta launch in the PCWorld article, “HP Launches Open WebOS into Beta, Pushes [...]

Rackspace opened up the cloud and Netflix released Chaos! The most buzz-worthy open source news of the week revolved around Rackspace’s OpenStack cloud offerings, Netflix’s release of its Chaos Monkey site testing service and HP’s decision to not support WebOS on its current devices. Read more about these and other open source stories from this [...]

It was a great pleasure to be involved in organizing last week’s Open Source Industry Day, sponsored by the NSA. In the spirit of the day, I’ve been sworn to secrecy by the event’s other organizer, the Open Source Software Institute, with regards “how the sausage was made,” but let me just say that the [...]

I recently had the pleasure of seeing Geoffrey Moore – I’ve always wanted to meet Mr. “Crossing the Chasm” himself – present at a seminar on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.  He was talking about “Escape Velocity,” his name for a critical challenge faced by established enterprises – how to move beyond past success and [...]

Dell dominated a lot of the tech news this week, announcing a new OEM partnership with Red Hat and building an open source laptop for developers. Read about announcements from Dell, HP, The Document Foundation and more: Clint Boulton reported on the news that Dell is designing an open source computer with its new Project [...]

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 [...]