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• Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup

  By Jon Gold | 12 June, 2013 20:39

  Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS.

• Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 June, 2013 13:44

  Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework.

• Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead

  By Loek Essers | 12 June, 2013 13:37

  The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards.

• Wintel under siege as mobile and Android ascend at Computex

  By Michael Kan and James Niccolai | 06 June, 2013 15:21

  Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Wintel powerhouse of Windows software and Intel chips.

• Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 06 June, 2013 11:46

  Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support.

• Big Switch lowers forecast for OpenDaylight SDN effort

  By Jim Duffy | 05 June, 2013 14:43

  Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.

• Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51

  By Jon Gold | 03 June, 2013 17:31

  Atul Chitnis, a pioneering technologist and former contributing editor to the landmark Indian IT publication PCQuest, died Monday at the age of 51, following a battle with intestinal cancer.

• Australia mulls requiring OpenDocument Format compatibility

  By Jeremy Kirk | 29 May, 2013 04:41

  Australia's government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard.

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  By Joab Jackson | 28 February, 2013 20:51

  Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

• Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures

  By Paul Krill | 21 October, 2008 07:54

  Microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with Novell pertaining to Suse Linux. Looking to elaborate on Microsoft's activities, Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing, met last week with Paul Krill in San Francisco. Companies today, Gutierrez said, have become "mixed source" ventures rather than the world being divided up between open source and proprietary.

• Sizing up open source: Not so simple

  By Stacy Collett | 06 May, 2013 10:09

  Choosing open-source software is more complicated than picking traditional software. Is your IT department prepared to contribute code fixes to the community?

• Free (with strings attached): Keeping track of open-source code

  By Mary K. Pratt | 06 May, 2013 10:08

  Just about anyone in the office can introduce open-source code into the company's IT infrastructure. Yet CIOs face real dangers if they're not properly managing their open-source assets.

• Open your data to the world

  By Neil Savage | 16 April, 2013 11:22

  Not having an API is becoming like not having a website, but the interface has got to be easy for outside developers to work with.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 3: Why we use WordPress

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 27 February, 2013 12:34

  In the third part of a three-part series, we look at two organizations that have chosen WordPress as their content management system.

• Choosing an open-source CMS, part 2: Why we use Joomla

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 19 February, 2013 11:47

  In the second part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Joomla as their content management system.

• 10 open source projects to watch this year

  By Katherine Noyes | 31 January, 2013 14:46

  Open source software projects may not typically have the marketing budgets necessary to match launch events like the one Microsoft just held for Office 2013, but that doesn't mean their products are any less valuable.

• Why there's no stopping the Android train

  By Katherine Noyes | 23 February, 2011 06:24

  It's a rare week indeed that doesn't see the emergence of some fresh news of Android's ascendance, but lately the evidence has been coming particularly fast and furious, suggesting that there really is no stopping the mobile platform--at least not anytime soon.

• How DRM could ensure cloud security

  By Keir Thomas | 04 February, 2011 05:53

  Yet another survey is indicating that security is a big issue for those intending to take up cloud computing.