By Serdar Yegulalp Making good on its promise from earlier in the year, Pivotal has released as open source the distributed in-memory database that powers GemFire, a featured part of Pivotal’s Big Data …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Black Duck’s mission: To seek out insecure open source code in the enterprise
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By Serdar Yegulalp The world of open source has been trying to be more proactive about protecting its software and protocols, but what can enterprises do to determine if the open source …read more Source:: OpenSource
The new struggles facing open source
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By Matt Asay The early days of open source were fraught with religious animosities we feared would tear apart the movement: free software fundamentalists haggling with open source pragmatists over how many Apache …read more Source:: OpenSource
Open source is better off without FoundationDB
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By Simon Phipps Database startup FoundationDB mysteriously vanished at the end of last month, along with both the downloads of its proprietary database and its open source projects. As it turned out, Apple …read more Source:: OpenSource
Windows goes open source? Microsoft plays coy
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By Paul Krill Could Microsoft’s open source advocacy ever result in the company offering its cash cow Windows OS up to open source? It’s possible, according to one Microsoft official, though his comments …read more Source:: OpenSource
Facebook’s iOS UI development framework goes open source
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An open source software updating tool
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Once a piece of software is installed on a user’s system, how do you keep it updated? While Linux users typically have a package management system to pull latest versions from a repository of their choice, users of other systems aren’t so lucky. We have developed an open source tool to assist in this process,…
OpenSSL Set For Major Security Audit
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A team of security consultants is set to undertake a major independent audit of OpenSSL as part of a multi-million dollar initiative by the Linux Foundation to improve the security and stability of core open source projects. Cryptography Services – which comprises experts from NCC Group, iSEC Partners, Matasano, and Intrepidus Group – announced the…
Pivotal Open Sources Entire Big Data Suite
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As enterprise IT grows increasingly comfortable with using open source technologies, presence of enterprise vendors in the open source ecosystem grows too. Pivotal , the San Francisco-based company majority owned by EMC and VMware, whose mandate is to enable enterprise developers to build and deploy analytics-enabled software using modern agile development methods, has led three…
Why did you start using open source?
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When it comes to getting involved with open source, everyone has their own story. As our Beginners to Open Source series gets into full swing, we want you to share yours. Source: Tech