Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, working with 451 Research, are conducting the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey.  I took the survey, but one question caused me concern, considering what I do for a living.  Question 11 states, “OSS forges and foundations have played an important role in the past few [...]

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 [...]

Last week I attended EclipseCon 2012 in its new east coast location. It was a great conference, both in terms of speakers and attendees, and over the three days, I had the pleasure of talking with some of the top dogs in the Eclipse world, both in sessions and at the bar. I also got [...]

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 [...]

Open source software has become an integral part of all aspects of software development.  Take the meteoric rise of Git for example.   The open source version control system has rapidly become one of the most popular version control systems used by software developers today. Git is fast, flexible, and full of developer-friendly features, which explains [...]

Last week, Ian Skerrett‘s blog, “What To Do With Open Source Freeloaders?” discussed how the term “freeloader” has been used to describe people and organizations that use open source, but need more encouragement to actively contribute back to the projects they are benefiting from. Where do you and your organization fall on the freeloader scale? Please answer our poll [...]

“Over time, we’ll get more data, more powerful computers, and better predictive algorithms. We’ll also do better at helping group-level (as opposed to individual) decision making, since many organizations require consensus for important decisions. This means that the ‘market share’ of computer automated or mediated decisions should go up, and intuition’s market share should go [...]

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 [...]