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If Hadoop has a problem, it can be expressed simply: Its power is inversely proportional to its ease-of-use....

Sometimes too much choice isn't a good thing. ...

In these days of distributed version control and chatty websites with clean lines, it's easy to forget the granddaddy of all open source repositories: SourceForge....

The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors. For the latest release of Docker , the development team behind the technology has focused on making the software ready for enterprise use. ...

Rare is the infrastructure that lacks open source software, but as we watch such new technologies as SDN move into our data centers, open source seems increasingly likely to penetrate every corner -- not just servers and applications, but networking, storage, and more. Michael Bushong, vice president of marketing at SDN vendor Plexxi, sees the dominance of open source as inevitable. In this week's...

The OpenDaylight Project , the software-defined networking industry consortium that features IBM and Cisco among its roster of members, has released the first version of its SDN and NFV ...

Here's an irony for you: the Linux kernel is now written, more than ever before, by for-profit corporations, many of which are in direct competition with each other. The total share of contributions by such outfits is rising year over year. ...

With Microsoft, Google, and Facebook now all offering bug bounty programs to reward the responsible disclosure of vulnerabili...

I keep reading articles that say Google is losing money by selling Motorola Mobility to IBM's favorite dumping ground for used assets, Chinese manufacturer Lenovo. This is simply wrong. ...

Momentum continues to build behind Facebook's Open Compute Project, which capped its fifth Open Compute Summit this week by welcoming a surprise new participant: Microsoft....

The latest point revision of the popular OpenOffice.org fork, LibreOffice , is now available for download....

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Remember the days when some people, concerned about security, would disable JavaScript in their browsers? Today that seems like a ridiculous notion. JavaScript rules the Web. From frameworks to data visualization tools to subsets, JavaScript enjoys a wide range of enhancements to get the most out of apps running in the browser, in the cloud, and on any platform. Though it has its drawbacks, JavaScript...

The fifth Open Compute Summit , a two-day get-together staged by Facebook's Open Compute Project, hosted several ...

Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs. The Redmond, Wash., tech company is also contributing system management source code to the project. It said it aimed to create an open source software community in the Open Compute Project. ...

The sixth annual Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year awards recognize the top open source projects initiated in the past year....

s patent positions against patent infringement allegations and subsequent litigation from competitors, and specifically Apple, which has been involved in acrimonious, multinational patent battles worth billions of dollars against Samsung for years now, over Samsung...

The rise of Android PCs and Chromebooks show that Microsoft could be losing its iron-grip on the desktop....

What a year we just went through concerning digital freedoms. After starting so sadly with the tragic death of a young digital polymath, 2013 saw the rise of a sequence of other heroic figures who risked their lives to defend our rights. ...

For more than a decade we've been talking about the skirmishes that have made up the hypervisor wars. But now much of the virtualization community has moved beyond that discussion, dubbing the hypervisor as more of a commodity play, and is instead looking toward the cloud. ...