Poll: Companies still worried about open-source security
Businesses in North America and Europe remain broadly worried about the security of open-source software, according to new data from Forrester Research.
Businesses in North America and Europe remain broadly worried about the security of open-source software, according to new data from Forrester Research.
Ingres on Wednesday announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a bundle that combines Ingres' open-source database with Red Hat's JBoss Developer Studio and Enterprise Application Platform.
The commercial sponsor and originator of the Ubuntu project, Canonical, has stepped into new territory with the launch of a storage and sync service called Ubuntu One. In the tradition of open source marketing, this has been a "quiet product launch", and appears to have come from nowhere in the last week or two.
The first major release of the 3.0 series of open source office suite OpenOffice.org, version 3.1, is now available with big improvements in usability and the user interface.
The owner of an obscure US software development company is suing Google and everyone else in the Open Handset Alliance over their use of the word "Android."
There's open source software, then there's the cloud, and thus far, the two have been mutually exclusive. But that is starting to change.
A provider of tools for accelerating the use of open source in software development estimates conservatively that 10 per cent of development spending is redundant given the open source code already available.
Version 1.5 of the Android platform will have new features sought by users and developers since the mobile operating system's first release, but none of the updated features appear to easily out-do top smartphones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.<br/>
Google has both refreshed and open sourced its Google Update software, which is code-named Omaha. By making the software available under the open source Apache license, developers working on an auto-updater can use Google's code, which also enables Google to publish updates and plug security holes.
IBM's proposal to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc. may be, for now, off the table.
Red Hat's CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration's call for openness and participation in government by likening the President's statement to the open source software movement.
Digium announced at VoiceCon Orlando that it will support subscriptions for businesses using Asterisk, the open source IP PBX.
Open-source software companies are missing out on a relatively inexpensive way to fight concerns about patent liability, according to an attorney who spoke at an open-source conference in San Francisco.
The world of low-rent key-value storage silos is exploding. Here's a list of some of the more prominent new projects:
Microsoft plans to use this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, according to company officials.