Open Source Delivers

Sifting through the thousands of new open source projects that start each year is a refreshing, insightful process. As we completed our Rookies analysis of the new projects that hit the scene in 2012, I had a wonderful sense of the kind of impact that open source is making on the world in so many [...]

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 [...]

This week’s open source news revolved mostly around the Linux Foundation and the two big events they were hosting: LinuxCon North America and (the first ever!) CloudOpen. From keynote coverage to new foundation members, Linux news was practically inescapable – we even published a live blog from the LinuxCon exhibit hall! To help you catch up, [...]

This week, the center of the open source universe was Portland, OR, where the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was held. With so many industry influencers as speakers, sponsors and attendees, the majority of this week’s stories came out of OSCON. So whether you were busy enjoying all the OSCON festivities or unable to attend, [...]

Between hosting its 2012 Summit and a big acquisition, Red Hat has had a busy week! Jim Whitehurst’s opening keynote presentation at the Red Had Summit took a retrospective look at revolutionizing innovations, inspiring numerous blogs and articles. The billion dollar open source company also made news when it announced it was buying the open [...]

Two social networking giants and one of the most well-known streaming media companies have made open source announcements this week. Facebook, Twitter and Netflix all had open source releases, while Samsung became a Platinum Linux Foundation member and gained a seat on the non-profit’s board (for a donation of $500,000).  All these stories and more [...]

Although the cloud industry buzz has continued from last week, this week also saw new open source announcements. Certainly the most talked about news was Google’s Open Networking Summit announcement that it has updated its internal networks with an open source technology called OpenFlow. Read more about OpenFlow and other open source stories from this [...]

From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, cloud, social media and auto…and you’re not going to miss any of it! Scott Merrill reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s announcement of its [...]

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 [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: Linux celebrated its 20th birthday, Eclipse turned 10 and LibreOffice surpassed the 1 year mark. The tech world grieved the loss of a visionary and [...]