Two social networking giants and one of the most well-known streaming media companies have made open source announcements this week. Facebook, Twitter and Netflix all had open source releases, while Samsung became a Platinum Linux Foundation member and gained a seat on the non-profit’s board (for a donation of $500,000). All these stories and more are included in this week’s wrap up!
- Ryan Paul reported on Facebook open sourcing its C++ development libraries in the Ars Technica article, “Facebook Releases Internal C++ Libraries as Open Source.”
- The Economist published “When Code Can Kill or Cure,” exploring how open source methods can help improve safety and increase the innovation of medical devices.
- Brian X. Chen’s New York Times blog covered Samsung’s new Platinum membership in the Linux Foundation: “Samsung Backs Open Source, Joining Linux Foundation.”
- In the CIO Journal article, “Chevron Explores Open Source Using Hadoop,” Rachael King reported on Chevron’s use of open source software for processing seismic data collected during deep sea oil reservoir exploration.
- ZDNet’s David Chernicoff discussed the launch of Netflix Open Connect in the blog, “Netflix Delivers Using Commodity Hardware and Open Source Software.”
- Chris von Eitzen reported on Twitter making its distributed tracing system open source in The H article, “Zipkin: Twitter’s New Open Source Distributed Tracing Project.”
- On NetworkWorld, Thor Olavsrud listed “9 Open Source Big Data Technologies to Watch.”
NASA and the VA are teaming up again this year to host the second Open Source Summit on June 20-21. Are you planning to attend?
