Open Source Delivers

Yes, today is the Facebook IPO debut, but it’s not the only thing that happened in the technology world this week. Red Hat’s signature open source platform turned ten, the Apache Foundation reported unprecedented growth, new mobile project data was released and Tizen is running Android apps!? Warning: no Facebook IPO stories below! May 15th [...]

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 [...]

In last month’s Open Source and Innovation webinar, Editor-in-Chief of CRM Outsiders Chris Bucholtz, and I had the opportunity to speak with the Olliance Group’s Greg Olsen, about various aspects of the cloud including its future, the issue of security in the cloud, and the cloud’s role in the open source community. Naturally I was [...]

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 [...]

Without a doubt, the biggest story in open source this week was the news that Red Hat would be the first $1 billion open source company.  This announcement sparked a media fire and had all the tech bloggers weighing in on what Red Hat’s success means for open source software. Red Hat’s CEO, Jim Whitehurst, [...]

Big companies have long been using popular open source projects – that’s nothing new.  What is new, however, are big companies taking on support of projects that already have a corporate sponsor. Revolution Analytics recently found itself in this position. The corporate sponsor of the R big data language recently found out that Oracle will [...]

There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week. Companies, communities, foundations and projects were all topics of conversation. Here’s a sample of this week’s open source news: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols gave his review on the Cinnamon throwback to GNOME 2.x with his ZDNet blog, “Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of [...]

The U.S. federal government is not always the zippiest, most progressive organization in the world. With that backdrop, it is impressive to see the push being made to remove barriers to the use of open source software. Makes one proud to be an Amuhrcan! (for those who remember Lyndon B.) A couple weeks ago the [...]

Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final conclusions about an open source effort. It’s not like the iPhone and its seemingly instant market penetration. Few understand this better than Josh McKenty. McKenty, [...]

I’ve just returned from the Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, where a huge crowd – well over 600 attendees, from both the OSS industry and other businesses – gathered to hear the latest in open source (OSS) enabled mobile, cloud and social strategies. The largest OSS-related conference I’ve been to so far, sponsored by [...]