Between hosting its 2012 Summit and a big acquisition, Red Hat has had a busy week! Jim Whitehurst’s opening keynote presentation at the Red Had Summit took a retrospective look at revolutionizing innovations, inspiring numerous blogs and articles. The billion dollar open source company also made news when it announced it was buying the open source integration and messaging framework, FuseSource, from Progress Software. Still, Red Hat wasn’t the only organization making a splash in OSS this week:
- Chris von Eitzen reported on the specifics around Adobe’s new web development code editor, Brackets, in the article, “Adobe Details Its Open Source Code Editor for Web Developers” (Make sure to watch the video intro to Brackets!)
- GigaOM covered the Netflix code release of its cloud management project, with the Barb Darrow article, “Netflix Open Sources Asgard Cloud Deployment Smarts.”
- “Twitter Open-Sources Lago Load Generator, So You Can Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself” was published on VentureBeat by Jolie O’Dell.
- On ZDNet, Paula Rooney covered the new availability of Mozilla’s Firefox browser for Android phones: “Mozilla Announces Firefox for Android.”
- The keynote made by Jim Whitehurst for the 2012 Red Hat Summit was covered by Thor Olavsrud in the CIO article, “Open Source a $1 Billion Business, But Just Beginning.”
- Molly Bernhart Walker reported on the U.S. government’s efforts to open source its online petition platform, in the Fierce Government IT article, “White House to Open We the People Platform.”
- Red Hat’s acquisition of FuseSource was covered by Timothy Prickett Morgan in The Register article, “Red Hat Snaps Up Open Source SOAer FuseSource.”
- On PCWorld, Jason Bloomberg wrote about how and why NASA helped to facilitate open source cloud computing: “How NASA Helped Open-Source Cloud Computing Take Off.”
The Weekly Wrap Up will be on holiday next Friday, but stay tuned for a special patriotic edition of Open Source Delivers next week! Trust me; you won’t want to miss its star spangled awesomeness 
