Open Source Delivers

News that Facebook’s Open Compute Project will soon be tackling open designs for network switches was the big open source topic of the week.  The announcement by Facebook’s Frank Frankovsy [...]

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) took place this week and generated a lot of open source news, with the CEO of Red Hat’s impactful opening keynote presentation receiving the [...]

This blog was originally posted on SandHill.com. Editor’s note: My immediate reaction when I reviewed the findings of the recent 2013 Future of Open Source Survey was surprise at the high degree [...]

GENIVI is the alliance of companies in the automotive supply chain jointly developing a Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment system (IVI) platform. The All Member Meeting (AMM) in Barcelona drew about 400 [...]

When your name is Linus and you live in Finland, the social pressure to do something open source related is understandably enormous. And so I have spent the past few [...]

This week’s open source news kicked off with SkySQL announcing its merger with MariaDB and the first batch of Firefox OS phones selling out within hours of going on sale. [...]

Last week, Black Duck and North Bridge revealed the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results. For the first time, we announced the results via webinar and I had the [...]

Jeff Hammond of Forrester Research talks about the “iron triangle” of software development. “Schedule, features, cost…pick any two,” is the way he describes it. He often brings this up in [...]

The 2013 Future of Open Source Survey results are in! With a record breaking 822 respondents, the results revealed that the cultural impact of open source software and its influence [...]

One of the things I’ve learned the hard way is that there’s more to software development than firing up your favorite text editor. As developers, we often interact with systems [...]