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Articles tagged "Open Source"
Fri, 14 June 2013
Thu, 13 June 2013
Red Hat Looks Beyond Linux For Its Next Decade Of Growth
Red Hat's last 10 years were all about enterprise Linux. The next 10 will be about enterprise clouds.
Wed, 12 June 2013
The Secret to OpenStack's Overnight Success
OpenStack has quickly emerged as one of the world's largest open-source communities.
Have The Nerdiest Wedding On The Block
Once strictly business, wedding invitation projects have made the software-storage site decidedly more personal.
Tue, 11 June 2013
Is Hadoop Not Enough For Cloudera?
Not content to simply distribute Hadoop, Cloudera is taking on the data management vendors. All of them.
Fri, 31 May 2013
MySQL Co-Founder Wants You To Pay Up For Open Source
When a noted open-source luminary starts blaming open source for financial woes, it's important to assign blame correctly. In the case of…
Tue, 28 May 2013
WordPress Hits The Decade Mark: An Appreciation
Much more than a mere blogging platform, the powerful open source content management system is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Thu, 23 May 2013
Android Now Dominates The Mobile Open Source Ecosystem
For years, Android has trailed iOS in terms of developers. In 2012, that changed dramatically, with the open-source operating system…
Wed, 15 May 2013
Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation
For years the software industry has trended toward ever more permissive licensing, to the point that today the GitHub developer crowd…
Thu, 9 May 2013
How An Open Source Operating System Jumpstarted Robotics Research
The ROS (Robot Operating System), an open-source platform on which engineers build robotic programs and apps, is speeding robotic…
Tue, 7 May 2013
Study: Open Source Delivers Superior Quality... Up To A Point
A new report from Coverity suggests that open source delivers higher quality software, so long as the project is relatively small.
Mon, 6 May 2013
How To Thrive In The Tech Industry For Decades
John Sloan, aka Chip Overclock, has managed a successful career in computer tech for nearly 40 years. Here's what you can learn from his…
Tue, 30 April 2013
Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing
While cloud computing is a relatively new phenomenon, it's being driven by experienced developers, much like open source before it. The…
Mon, 29 April 2013
Red Hat: The Software Industry's Choice Is 'Open Or Die'
Enterprises no longer choose between competing technology products, but rather between innovation models, said Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst at…
The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data
The bigger our data sets, the harder it becomes to sift through them to find objective truth, and the higher the costs of getting it…
Tue, 23 April 2013
Flawed Survey Tries To Diss Open Source, Fails
Two surveys come to very different conclusions about open-source software in the enterprise, but based on how broadly open source is being…
Tue, 16 April 2013
Will Red Hat's OpenStack Contributions Turn To Gold?
While the OpenStack cloud project has long been popular, Red Hat's increased involvement bodes well for its ability to turn popularity…
Wed, 10 April 2013
9 Things Microsoft Does Right: Can You Guess 'Em All?
What does Microsoft do wrong? Lots of things. But the company also does some important stuff right.
Fri, 5 April 2013
Microsoft Execs Flock To Amazon And Red Hat
Microsoft has been leaking executives in the past week, but it may be less an indication of something wrong at Microsoft so much as…
Thu, 28 March 2013
Google's Patent Pledge Covers Its Own Ass
Google's pledge to back open patents is a typical Google gesture: an elegant combination of genuine altruism, PR spin and protecting its own…
Wed, 27 March 2013
DevOps Booms In The Enterprise
DevOps, a close collaboration between software developers and IT departments, continues its ascent within the stodgy old enterprise…
Tue, 26 March 2013
Oracle's Big Miss: The End Of An Enterprise Era?
Oracle missing one quarter isn't a big deal, but Oracle's big miss signals significant changes in how enterprise technology is bought and…
Wed, 20 March 2013
Microsoft Azure: Open Source Is A First-Class Citizen
Microsoft's longstanding strategy of embrace and extend has no place on Azure, which seems to be all about embracing all of the…
Fri, 15 March 2013
One Hadoop To Rule Them All?
The Hadoop ecosystem is suddenly frothy with competition, and not everyone is going to win. Leading contenders are those that contribute…
