The second Annual All Things Open Conference has been announced for October 22 and 23 in Raleigh, NC. Riding on the success of the first year, this conference looks to expand its content on enterprise-level open source. More from FOSS Force
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Benetech started out in open source, like many other contributors, by scratching their own itch and sharing their work openly. The communities they shared with reciprocated leading Benetech down a path of success that has spanned two decades. Benetech supports the Humanitarian Free and Open Source community through their development of products to help the […]
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With hardly a year of existance under its belt, Docker has acquired its first company: Orchard Laboratories. Orchard developed fig, an open source tool for creating development environments using Docker. This move is a part of Docker’s overall goal of moving from application organization to offering distributed services infrastructure. More from Info World.
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The open source community is coming together this week for OSCON in Portland, OR, so a lot of people are talking about recent developments, and the current state of the open source industry. During times like this, it is important to reflect on the successes of open source so we can better understand how to […]
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Someone who is learning about electronics engineering once had many huge obstacles that needed to be overcome while learning the fundamentals of building electronics. Today, open source electronics like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Beaglebone are proving to be fantastic resources for people to build upon the highly-technical work of others. Now, those getting into electronics […]
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Scott Wilson works for OSS Watch and the Apache Software foundation in addition to being the maintainer for HtmlCleaner. In this article, he discusses the open source tools he relies on, the lack of open source in administrative systems, and the ‘FOSS bubble’ that prevents open source from being a part of certain business communities. […]
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Google recently revealed Kubernetes, an open source Docker orchestration tool designed to scale containerization. Google claims to run over 2 billion containers a week and created Kubernetes as a way to manage multiple pods of containers on a single server, or across a cluster. Google views containers as a disruptive technology and has brought IBM, […]
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Docker has made some major achievements over the last year, and the success has been due, in part, to the extensive focus the community has placed on testing. Many industries are adopting Docker into their virtualization systems, and are reaping major benefits as a result. Currently, Docker (the company) is looking to build a sustainable […]
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Silicon Valley is considered the center of the tech world by many, but according to an analysis of the top GitHub Contributors, roughly 3/4’s of open source development occurs elsewhere in the world. This shows that companies could benefit from hiring distributed teams in order to increase the size of their hiring pool. More from […]
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DreamHost is a web hosting company that launched in 1997. As a response to proprietary, black box services like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, DreamHost has contributed to the OpenStack project to help grow open source cloud services. There newest product is DreamCompute, which allows users to create virtual machines, block devices, and networks […]
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The debate over proprietary vs. open source solutions is ongoing, but the benefits of open source are quite obvoius. Utilizing open source software gives companies freedom to alter the software they rely on, offers many resources for support and knowledge, and makes security more transparent, in addition to other things. More From Acquia
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Mozilla has announced they will be bringing their new, low-cost smartphones to India and Indonesia in an effort to compete with feature phones that are commonly used in the region. Currently, the app suite that comes with Mozilla OS is limited, but this will give the company a chance to start rolling their new OS […]
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Mapbox uses a distributed development team located all over the US to develop open source map building tools. Many companies are recognizing the strengths of open source mapping tools over traditional web map applications, and Mapbox is playing a major role in helping businesses and organizations adopt them. More from OpenSource.com
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Oculus VR, a company that produces virtual reality gaming hardware and software, has acquired RakNet: a networking middleware system for gaming, and released it as open source under a modified BSD license. RakNet’s features include remote procedure calls, patching, secure connections, and voice chat. More from Oculus VR
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Open source has becoming widely accepted in American business, and it is important to understand the implications of making your business’ software open source. Any company looking to adopt open source needs to understand the dynamics of the involved communities and whether or not the benefits associated with these communities will help the company More […]
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The system power, storage, and network requirements of edge computing devices is increasing at an exponential rate. As more smart devices emerge that are connected to the internet, network systems need to adapt to keep up with increasing workloads. Michael Enescu claims Linux is the best solution for standardizing these models of communication. More from […]
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Many large companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco, and Google, are releasing open source applications as a means of promoting existing products and services. Open source projects are serving as a sort of standardization body that provides a platform for businesses to build their products upon, without needing to “reinvent the wheel.” This allows businesses to focus […]
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There’s little question that the advent of the Internet greatly changed the landscape of copyright management. Media producers struggle to control access to their products as digital distribution becomes easier. As much as one quarter of the traffic on the Internet is related to software and media piracy; once a system of piracy is stifled […]
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The open source movement has created an incredible amount of value for the software industry, but unfortunately it is still a major challenge for developers to get paid for their work, with many contributing their time and skills freely. Assembly is a new startup that recently received $2.9 million in funding to launch a platform […]
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The data science industry is growing quickly as more companies rely on the use of large amounts of data. Data science is all about extracting knowledge from data and is changing how companies approach business intelligence. At the center of the expansion of data science hiring is the programming language R. Started in 1993 in […]
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Leslie Hawthorn is a community manager for Elasticsearch among other things, and she has witnessed, firsthand, the effects open source processes can have on a company. She has been heavily involved in open source, big data analytics and she believes open source processes will become much more ubiquitous in business over the coming years. More […]
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Cloud computing covers an extremely broad range of technologies and protocols and there are numerous open source technologies that can be used for various aspects of it. Fortunately, many of the most important software in the open source cloud has resources to learn more. Python, Linux, and Hadoop all have plenty of free resources, and […]
