Open Source Delivers

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 [...]

As we prepare to launch the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey, we want to hear from you!  What topic is most interesting to you this year?

Sam Muirhead’s “Year of Open Source” has generated a lot of buzz – both positive and negative.  A Berlin-based filmmaker, Muirhead has vowed to live an “open source life,” avoiding all proprietary products for one year or, as he says: “One year of using and creating only open source solutions for every aspect of life, [...]

There are 32 flavors – and then some! – of open source projects, and selecting the “right” one for your needs is crucial.  As the latest Future of Open Source Survey suggested, many developers select projects based on the size of the community, availability of commercial support, and project maturity.  We’d like to take this [...]

In previous Wrap Ups I called for Open Source Delivers’ readers to take the Future of Open Source Survey. An impressive 740 people helped shape the future of open source, and the results were presented at this week’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco. Before we get into other open source news from [...]

This is Big Data Week, where different cities and organizations across the globe host community meetups to discuss everything data. With 1 Day 9 Hours 13 Minutes and 22 Seconds (roughly) left of Big Data Week, we wanted to know how many of you have participated in this week’s data-filled festivities. Answer our poll and [...]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance of these open source development processes are lacking. The survey, conducted by BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk Riehle, head of the Open Source [...]

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, [...]

The big stories this week were the reunion of Android with Linux in the new kernel 3.3 release and the news of the Icelandic public sector’s year long program to move all its software from proprietary to open source. Read about these stories and more: Stephen Shankland reported on the inclusion of Android code in [...]

A revolution is underway in the automotive industry, and no, it’s not only about hybrids, electric vehicles, or improving the efficiency of the internal combustion engine. Open source software (OSS) is now driving changes in the automotive “human-to-machine” interfaces. If you take a step back, you can see two recent waves of change in the [...]