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Article | 23/05/2013 Java developer says he built, launched basic open source office suite in 30 days
A freelance Java developer claims it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes.
Article | 19/05/2013 Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinio...
Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to design an open source switch
As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.
Article | 1/05/2013 Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases
Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 16/04/2013 Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, calle...
Article | 15/04/2013 Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition ...
Article | 15/04/2013 Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation
In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux ...
Article | 15/04/2013 Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers
Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as ...
Article | 12/04/2013 In Pictures: 13 hot new open source projects
Browser-based toolkits, add-ons to old favorites, tools programmers will love -- here are the most promising projects emerging from the open source co...
Article | 28/03/2013 Google pledges not to sue open-source users or developers over specified patents
Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said on Thursd...
Article | 26/03/2013 Spanish Linux user group files European antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Spanish Linux user group Hispalinux on Tuesday filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft over the use of the UEFI (U...
Article | 26/03/2013 Four alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone
Today Android and iOS dominate the smartphone market, combining to provide the operating systems for more than 95 percent of smartphones. Still, not e...
Article | 22/03/2013 China plans to standardize around local version of Ubuntu
China has picked Canonical's Linux-based Ubuntu OS as the reference architecture to establish a standardized operating system in the nation that could...
Article | 20/03/2013 Open-Xchange to launch open-source, browser-based office suite
Collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to launch an open-source, browser-based productivity suite called OX Documents.