Open Source Delivers

The Mobile World Congress took place this week and quickly became the platform for a number of open source mobile announcements. Mozilla shared the many mobile partners that have committed [...]

There was a great deal of debate this week over whether or not the city of Munich saved money by migrating its software to open source alternatives. The city originally [...]

This week’s open source news revolved mostly around the Linux Foundation and the two big events they were hosting: LinuxCon North America and (the first ever!) CloudOpen. From keynote coverage [...]

Lately it seems like everyone’s heads are in the clouds and eyes are on the skies, waiting to see what shape the big open source cloud platforms will take. The [...]

There has been a lot of buzz about Nokia and Microsoft partnering on the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) lately, including concern over amount of apps available for the platform (especially [...]

This week saw new companies joining the Linux Foundation, Microsoft open sourcing its scripting program and the VA naming the OSEHRA board of directors. Catch up on these stories and [...]

The Linux desktop was always thought to be a requirement for the full success of Linux. For, if the desktop interface wasn’t easy to use, cool even, then hundreds of [...]

Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final [...]

With 2012 right around the corner, this Wrap Up takes a look back over the past year in open source news. There have been a lot of milestones in 2011: [...]

Open source in government seemed to dominate the OSS dialog this week. In case you haven’t heard, the White House has made the Data.gov source code available on GitHub and [...]