Open Source Delivers

Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the great pleasure of taking part with fellow industry experts from North Bridge, Forrester, Thomson Reuters, Hortonworks and Acquia. Following the webinar, I had a chance [...]

Open source in government was the big theme in this week’s open source news. For the first time ever, the UK government formally announced its preference for open source software over proprietary. It was also announced that the Chinese government will work with Ubuntu to develop an open source operating system for the nation’s markets. [...]

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 [...]

It’s illegal for public entities in Germany to take full advantage of open source software… at least until a (well-intentioned) law is revised. With technology moving faster than legal systems, legislatures often find themselves playing catch-up. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were once laws requiring cars to yield to horses on major highways. Real [...]

While product launches, announcements and keynotes from CES seem to have taken over the web this week, a (somewhat) unlikely sector has made a lot of noise around open source technology… government. Not to be outdone by the recent open source news from Ubuntu and Ford, multiple government agencies have made news of their own [...]

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 [...]

Last week I was fortunate to both attend and present at OSEHRA’s first annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop . There were some great presentations on the status of OSEHRA and open source in health care, the general advancement of technology in health care, and how the government clearly believes in the ethos of open [...]

The use of open source software in governments was a popular topic of conversation for bloggers and tech journalists this week. With recent events like the Red Hat Government Symposium, the Military Open Source Working Group meeting and Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop, it’s easy to see why discussions got sparked about U.S. agencies [...]

This turned out to be a big week for OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Apache announced OpenOffice as a top-level project and at the LibreOffice Conference, it was announced that the city of Munich was migrating over to the free software office suite. Catch up on these stories and more: “Apache OpenOffice Becomes Top-Level Project” was published [...]