Open Source

Thu, May 17, 2012 - Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

Tue, May 15, 2012 - Free software and GNU Linux icon Richard Stallman was taken ill at a weekend conference in Spain, reportedly being taken to hospital suffering from symptoms of high blood pressure.

Fri, May 11, 2012 - In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

Thu, May 10, 2012 - Facebook's new App Center is set to launch, but are you ready to be seen? Here are four steps you, and all Facebook developers, must follow to ensure your app is included.

Mon, May 07, 2012 - Here's a look at the growing list of open-source platform-as-a-service providers and how IT managers can decide where the technology fits best in their organizations.

Mon, May 07, 2012 - With the explosion of unstructured data, companies are looking for more options for enterprise search. Here's a look at the benefits and limitations of open-source search-enabled applications.

Thu, May 03, 2012 - The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system.

Wed, May 02, 2012 - Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

Mon, April 30, 2012 - With Microsoft Open Technologies release, websites and mobile apps can use Metro style

Tue, April 24, 2012 - Hardly a month goes by without some fresh evidence of the growing popularity of open source software, and perhaps one of the best examples in recent weeks has been Microsoft's creation of its new Open Technologies division.

Mon, April 23, 2012 - Open source is powering a revolution in medicine and health care in multiple ways. Open source software and methods make large-scale collaborative research projects feasible, multiplying the brainpower applied to a project, expanding the data pool, and creating transparency and accountability. This is a huge win for the advancement of new treatments and cures, and cutting the costs of research. Open source practice and records software cut the costs of running medical practices, and puts practitioners in charge instead of software vendors.

Wed, April 18, 2012 - Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it have become the biggest challenges for enterprises looking to leverage the information. If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time.

Tue, April 17, 2012 - The news that Microsoft's new Open Technologies unit would be spun off from the company and dedicated to advancing its interests in the open-source market drew a mostly positive response from Red Hat this morning.

Mon, April 16, 2012 - Last year's Open Networking Summit far surpassed its expectations, resulting in a waiting list of 120 people looking to get into Stanford University's Li Ka Shing Center.