Open Source

Shuttleworth: Cloud Jobs Need Migration Help

Mark Shuttleworth says the industry needs portable workloads. He describes Canonical's solution to TechWeekEurope

13 years ago

IBM and Red Hat Join OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation has gained powerful new backers after IBM and Red Hat joined up

13 years ago

Microsoft Deepens Open Approach With New Subsidiary

Microsoft is seeking to deepen its interaction with open source communities with the creation of a new subsidiary

13 years ago

HP Converged Cloud Runs On OpenStack

HP's Converged Cloud package is to run on a hardened version of the open source OpenStack software

13 years ago

Wikimedia Foundation Drops Google Maps

The Wikimedia Foundation has shifted away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap in its mobile applications, following a wider trend

13 years ago

Red Hat’s Clustered Storage Polishes Gluster

Red Hat's open source cloud file system supports Hadoop for big data

13 years ago

OpenStack Releases ‘Essex’ Cloud OS

OpenStack's fifth-generation 'Essex' release adds pluggability to the open source cloud operating system

13 years ago

Canonical Busts Out Metal-as-a-Service For Cloudy Days

MaaS looks to bring cloud-like server management to IT teams

13 years ago

Open Source Joomla CMS Hits 30m Downloads

The open-source Joomla content management system has now been downloaded 30 million times

13 years ago

Microsoft Enters Top 20 Linux Contributors List

In an ironic development, Microsoft is now ranked in the top twenty of contributors to the Linux kernel

13 years ago

Yahoo Open Sources Mojito JavaScript Framework

Yahoo has open-sourced its Mojito JavaScript framework to give developers a platform-flexible HTML5 toolset

13 years ago

Apache Promotes Big Data Tool

Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status…

13 years ago

Apache Rave Graduates To Top-Level Status

The open source mashup platform Apache Rave has moved out of the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level…

13 years ago

Munich Saves More Than €4m By Switching To Linux

Mayor of Munich says that LiMux project has helped cut licensing costs

13 years ago

Red Hat Becomes First Billion Dollar Open Source Firm

Red Hat's open source success is down to the cloud and large contracts

13 years ago

Raspberry Pi Held Up By CE Certification

The £22 Raspberry Pi PC needs the CE mark for sales in Europe (assuming no mutant lizards)

13 years ago

It’s All Go For Google’s Programming Language Release

Google has introduced version 1.0 of its Go programming language, after nearly two years of development and testing

13 years ago

Microsoft Cuts Loose Its ASP.NET Technology Into Open-Source

Microsoft has open sourced more of its Web development technology and is accepting community code submissions

13 years ago

McAfee Offers Free MySQL Security Tool

McAfee's open source security audit plug-in for MySQL s aimed at cloud deployments and businesses

13 years ago

Researchers Discover Android Denial Of Service Exploit

Italian researchers have uncovered an Android vulnerability which could render a device unusable through a DoS attack

13 years ago

Dell Makes OpenStack Cloud Platform Available In UK

Open source cloud platform will be powered by PowerEdge C servers and Crowbar management software

13 years ago

Iceland To Use Open Source Software For All Public Sector IT

This year, Iceland's public institutions start to shift to open source

13 years ago

Linux Kernel 3.3 Re-Integrates Android

The new Linux 3.3 has brought Google's Android code back into the mainstream, a boost for developers

13 years ago

Pirate Bay Takes Flight With GPS Controlled Drones

Ambitious drones will use Raspberry Pi computers to seek sanctuary in the skies

13 years ago

Red Hat Delivers JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Beta And Tools

Red Hat has released beta versions of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and JBoss Developer Studio 5

13 years ago

Doubts Surround Anonymous Operating System

Ubuntu-based OS, featuring pre-installed hacking tools, was released yesterday

13 years ago

Mozilla Releases Firefox 11

New open source browser version arrives despite fears of Pwn2own delay

13 years ago

Samsung Begins Android Ice Cream Sandwich Rollout

Samsung Galaxy S II set to receive update from today with other devices following soon

13 years ago

Linux Foundation Ranks Bolstered By NVIDIA And Others

The Linux Foundation has grown its ranks after new members, including GPU maker NVIDIA, signed up

13 years ago