Open Source

Fri, February 03, 2012 - Ever since the news broke last weekend that a fully open tablet is on the way, the excitement has been tangible in the Linux community.

Fri, January 27, 2012 - HP is taking WebOS open source with the hope that it can attract developers by providing a write-once-run-everyplace platform. However, Rob Enderle writes, history hasn't been kind to operating systems as only few survive, but while WebOS has risks it also has potential, if HP willing to invest properly.

Tue, January 24, 2012 - Copyleft licenses have been the most popular choice for new open source projects. Recently, however, developers and companies seem to be moving from the GPL in favor of less restrictive permissive licenses for open source projects. What's behind the trend and how does it impact your business?

Wed, January 18, 2012 - For businesses that rely on online transactions, open source shopping carts are a good alternative to proprietary ecommerce software: They are a fraction of the cost and are supported by large communities of users and developers.

Wed, January 11, 2012 - The Tizen project, which is developing an open-source operating system for devices like smartphones and tablets, is offering a download of the alpha release of the source code of the operating system.

Wed, January 11, 2012 - Oracle's Big Data Appliance product, which shipped Tuesday, gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache Hadoop open source technology.

Thu, December 22, 2011 - The social networking company has released software it acquired with the IndexTank purchase earlier this year

Wed, December 21, 2011 - There's been much uncertainty surrounding OpenOffice.org ever since Oracle decided back in June to donate the open source office productivity project to the Apache Software Foundation.

Mon, December 19, 2011 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology expands its OpenCourseWare to offer accrediation

Mon, December 19, 2011 - Ubuntu 11.10 has some jagged edges and documentation isn't easy to locate, but Canonical is certainly dreaming big with this latest update, dubbed Oneiric (dreamy) Ocelot.

Tue, November 08, 2011 - Open source is about more than code: it's about unlocking all possibilities. Here are four unusual projects made possible by open source.

Mon, November 07, 2011 - Companies that can't meet Microsoft's price for its SharePoint content management package might want to try Alfresco.

Mon, November 07, 2011 - Doug Cutting, the creator of the open-source Hadoop framework that allows enterprises to store and analyze petabytes of unstructured data, is bullish on the future.

Mon, November 07, 2011 - A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody website -- The Stallman Dialogues -- as well as some debate over the propriety of people constantly poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation.