The Best of Open Source Software Awards (or Bossies, if you prefer) announced its winners this week. With seven categories and over a hundred products recognized, it is clearer than ever that open source is playing a major role in contributing to technology innovation across industries and categories.
Take a look at a few of the places open source turned up this week:
- In the ITWorld article, “Open Source in 2012: Bigger and Better Than Ever,” Eric Knorr shares highlights from the 2012 Bossie Awards.
- “Open Government, Open Data, Open Source,” was posted by Peter Welsch on the White House Blog announcing the launch of the U.S. government’s new developer resource called /Developer, built to help developers “unlock government data.”
- After some confusion over which systems Intel’s new Clover Trail chip would support, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols confirmed its support for open source operating systems in the ZDNet article, “Intel’s New Clover Trail Chip will Support Android & Linux.”
- “CIOs Should Look First to Open Source Software, Report Says,” was published by Loek Essers on ComputerWorld about a new study showing that enterprises can benefit from increased innovation, responsiveness and system accessibility by moving to open source.
- On Wired, Klint Finley covered Rackspace passing control of OpenStack over to the OpenStack Foundation: “Rackspace Hands Over Keys to Open Source Cloud.”
- Wired also published “Linux Drives the Open Source Car,” by Doug Newcomb, about the Linux Foundation’s new Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup (AGL).
Android turned four this week! Check out PCMag.com’s look back at just how much has changed since the first Android mobile phone was sold.
