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 [...]

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 [...]

Dell announced its OpenStack product plans, the Linux Foundation has new members and tech predictions for 2013 have already started. The latest open source news and predictions for the future await you: Dell’s 2013 plans to build its cloud products around OpenStack was covered by Jack Clark in the ZDNet article, “Dell commits to open-source [...]

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 [...]

I just returned from Barcelona, home of the famous Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.  Gaudí’s unique and distinctive style changed the face of Barcelona and greatly influenced modern architecture, much as Linux and open source is changing the world of software development.  And it was here that the Linux Foundation put on two conferences covering [...]

Last week I was pleased to moderate a panel on Super Communities in Embedded Systems at the Open World Forum in Paris, after which I addressed a group involved in starting a new embedded systems community. Super communities are specific to a vertical industry and are typically based on the idea of competitors and supply [...]

The recent drop in unemployment rates was extra good news for the technology sector. The Linux Foundation’s Jennifer Cloer highlighted the newest Salary Guide’s indication that tech jobs will experience the greatest pay increase in 2013! Rated as the top most lucrative tech job, it looks like Mobile App Developers will have even more to celebrate [...]

This week the Linux Foundation’s Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, published an article challenging CEO’s across various industries to incorporate external, collaborative development into their R&D processes. He asserted that regardless of whether you’re a technology company, you most likely build software, and should be following the lead of established tech companies in utilizing open development [...]