Open Source Delivers

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) took place this week and generated a lot of open source news, with the CEO of Red Hat’s impactful opening keynote presentation receiving the most attention. This week also provided an update to the Linux Kernel, Eucalyptus support for Netflix open source tools and a gift for hackers awaiting [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Every year the movers and shakers of the mobile/wireless industry converge upon the industry’s mecca, the Mobile World Congress (MWC).  This year’s ecosystem extravaganza in Barcelona drew 1,500 exhibitors and over 72,000 visitors.  Attendees spanned the gadget gamut, from mobile chipset vendors and software platform suppliers to device manufacturers and network operators, from app developers, [...]

GitHub and Red Hat made open source announcements and the 2013 Linux Jobs Report reinforced the importance of open source talent. Get all the details on these stories and more: Wired.co.uk published Tom Hulme’s Wired Magazine article, “Open-Source Your Product to Unlock Its Full Potential,” on how products and companies can benefit from crowdsourcing information [...]

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 [...]

This week, Black Duck announced the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects from this past year. Open Source Delivers blogger Dave Gruber wrote a post on the trends that were identified in the Rookies list. Before we get to recent news from the rest of the open [...]