Open-Source Science: The New Norm.
Database. Telephony. Interview: Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of Apache. Brian Behlendorf co-founded the Apache Web Server Project and was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine. He also co-founded the web design firm Organic Online and CollabNet, where Behlendorf now serves as CTO. He talks to Rich Miller about Apache's growth, the SCO case's unexpected benefits for open source, and changing the world through software. Q. It's been a year of big gains for Apache, which now runs more than two-thirds of the sites on the Web, according to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, erasing inroads by Microsoft during 2001. What's your take on Apache's continuing gains?
A. Q. A. At the other end of the spectrum is the impact this has had at the executive level. Q. A. On the other hand, I am seeing more and more people coming around to the Apache license or the BSD/MIT licenses. Q. A.Google, Salesforce.com, and other recent IPO filings have certainly caused people to ask whether it's 1999 all over again. Q. A. Unfortunately we had to cut staff to make this happen. Q. A. Josh Lerner Discusses “The Comingled Code” Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Emphasizes the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud. Open source operating system Ubuntu 10.10 is available to download today for desktop, notebook, and server editions.
Hooray for well-timed 10.10's. All these versions are emphasizing Canonical's embracing of the cloud, whether in terms of a "personal cloud" for desktop and notebook users or the deployment in virtual environment of the server edition. Ubuntu One Basic is available fo desktop and notebook users free of charge. The service provides a personal cloud for sharing and syncing files, contacts, bookmarks and notes. It comes with 2GB of free storage, which can be upgraded in additional 20GB blocks. Ubuntu 10.10 also marks an upgrade to the music store, as well as the addition of streaming of your personal music collection onto your Android or iPhone. While the desktop and notebook versions emphasize the personal cloud, the server edition of Ubuntu 10.10 touts it as "the default open-source choice for cloud computing. " Most Organizations Now Use Open Source Software According to Gartner. More than half of the 517 organizations surveyed by Gartner use open source software (OSS).
When the firm first started tracking open source in the enterprise five years ago, only 10% of organizations were using OSS. Gartner published the results in a report titled Survey Analysis: Overview of Preferences and Practices in the Adoption and Usage of Open-Source Software. This announcement summarizes the findings. Decision makers aren't just looking to OSS because it's cheaper - they're also trying to gain competitive advantages through open source.
More than one in five respondents (22%) are using OSS in all departments of the organization, while 46% are using OSS for specific departments. Last year we reported an Accenture survey that found that 40% of organizations planned to migrate mission-critical software to open source within a year. For a look at some of the most popular open source applications in the enterprise, check out this post. Using Open Source Technologies to Deliver Healthcare. Tecosystems » The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline? To judge by the vigorousness of the defense of its brand in recent weeks, it seems reasonably safe to conclude that open source can be evaluated as an institution in certain contexts. Granted, it’s a problematic approach generally given the fact that open source is not a single organization, but rather a loose federation of many individual institutions each with its own goals, principles and philosophies. And yet for comparative purposes it occasionally is useful to look at the performance of open source as a whole relative to the commercial, closed source marketplace: itself a massive collection of independent entities, notably.
The occasion of OSCON is, in many respects, an entirely arbitrary endpoint for a check on the health of the phenomenon it is ostensibly organized around. At the same time, as Tim puts it, OSCON is a relatively unique gathering of the tribes, which perhaps makes such a system-wide evaluation entirely appropriate. StartupGrowthMaturityDecline The LAMP Stack The Net. Open Source Open World (Infographic) Open source marks a new era for African independence. A growing community across Africa is coding software to suit their own needs. This year marks the 50th anniversary of 17 African states gaining independence. Now, a wave of homegrown programmers, developers and software makers claim to be heralding a new era of African independence. Earlier this month, the Idlelo conference, organised by the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), brought together the continent's cleverest coding minds at Accra, in Ghana, to discuss new software opportunities in Africa.
Unlike the bigger, foreign developers - who have mainly targeted the urban markets - the coders at this event looked at how to reach the rural, relatively poorer communities of Africa. In their words, they're people who know how to code, and know the continent. Import risk The meeting was hosted at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. "We have to develop and localise the applications so that they work in our own languages. "That means that you are vulnerable.