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• Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform

  By Nancy Gohring | 10 February, 2012 10:51

  Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.

• Free Web tool consolidates data on code vulnerabilities

  By John Cox | 09 February, 2012 03:29

  Enterprise coders can now use an open source Web application that lets them consolidate software vulnerability data from a range of scanning and test tools. With a centralized view, and reporting and management tools, ThreadFix speeds the work needed to fix software bugs and vulnerabilities, including those in proliferating mobile apps.

• Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility

  By Sharon Machlis | 09 February, 2012 03:03

  When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave -- and more are on the way.

• Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2012 00:03

  Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

• Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 February, 2012 07:10

  Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.

• Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud

  By Joab Jackson | 02 February, 2012 16:03

  In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday.

• Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation

  By Joab Jackson | 02 February, 2012 02:54

  One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced.

• Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support

  By Nancy Gohring | 01 February, 2012 08:53

  Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack.

• 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.

• 20 popular Ubuntu Linux apps you may want to try

  By Katherine Noyes | 10 February, 2012 07:01

  As Ubuntu Linux continues to grow in popularity, most discussions of it tend to focus on the basics of the operating system itself, including especially details about its desktop environment and user interface.

• 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.

• Why Android users are such a happy lot

  By Katherine Noyes | 20 January, 2011 05:51

  Smartphone users tend to hold strong opinions about the various mobile platforms out there, often displaying feverish loyalty to the one they use and outright disdain for all others.

• ClamAV promises free antivirus app for businesses

  By Keir Thomas | 19 January, 2011 05:34

  Most of us don't like paying for antivirus (AV) software, but at least home users can rely on one of the free options, such as Microsoft Security Essentials, avast!, or AVG Free.

• Is Android less secure than iPhone? Um, no.

  By Katherine Noyes | 14 January, 2011 11:04

  One can only hope that security software provider Trend Micro saw a nice sales boost after the proclamation of its chairman earlier this week that Android phones are more vulnerable to hacking than iPhones are. If it didn't, those blatantly self-serving statements were made for nothing.

• For an old or slow PC, try Puppy Linux 5.2

  By Katherine Noyes | 12 January, 2011 08:58

  There's no doubt Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but there are myriad others equally worthy of consideration.

• 10 new open source projects to watch

  By Katherine Noyes | 11 January, 2011 06:33

  One of the most exciting things about open-source software is the sheer diversity of projects that are always under way. Aiming to recognize some of the most promising of those projects, Black Duck Software on Friday announced its 2010 open-source "Rookies of the Year" list.