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Oldies but Goodies: Seven Projects Still Rocking Open Source

We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless.  But what about [...]







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SourceForge Data Repository Shows Rapid New Project Growth

SourceForge.net is the world’s largest open source software development website, with the largest repository of open source code and applications available on the Internet. I recently completed an analysis of [...]







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Code Quality Analysis the Open Source Way

Ever since software development emerged as a formal discipline, the subject of quality has been on the minds of developers and managers alike.  While everyone agreed that creating and releasing [...]







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The Growing Ecosystem Around Cloud Infrastructure Platforms

With all the momentum around moving enterprise software to the cloud, I was curious about the level of support from the open source world, not just relating to the obvious [...]







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The Future of Open Source: Annual Survey Results Reveal Important Insights, Challenges

An event I look forward to each year is the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).  It’s an event I’ve attended for many years, and is the event where the links [...]







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The Fight Continues on the Mobile O/S Battlefield

On the mobile o/s battlefield there are three Linux-based operating systems fighting to establish themselves along with the big boys of Android and iOS. Two of these are relatively new [...]







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Did you participate in Big Data Week?

This is Big Data Week, where different cities and organizations across the globe host community meetups to discuss everything data. With 1 Day 9 Hours 13 Minutes and 22 Seconds [...]







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There’s Truth In Numbers: FOSS and Metrics

At the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit a couple weeks ago, the Linux Foundation announced their annual “Who Writes Linux?” report. Amanda McPherson of TLF blogged about it on April 3, [...]







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FOSS Management Study: Use of Open Source in Automotive [Infographic]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance [...]







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A Revolution

Big companies have long been using popular open source projects – that’s nothing new.  What is new, however, are big companies taking on support of projects that already have a [...]







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