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To OpenStack or not to OpenStack? Gartner throws cold water in report

To OpenStack or not to OpenStack? A scathing report from Gartner says misconceptions about the open source cloud computing project are leading to "dangerous myths" that are impacting IT adoption and investments. read more »

Red Hat community to decide new name for JBoss

If the community edition of the JBoss enterprise Java application server could no longer be called JBoss, what other name would you choose? JOpen? JWorker? JFree? JMinion? JBoss community users get to decide. read more »

Tizen Galaxy S III smartphone set to be released by Samsung

Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project member Samsung Electronics is planning to launch a version of its Galaxy S3 smartphone running Tizen instead of Google's Android. read more »

Network Rail tenders for big IT services framework deal

Network Rail is putting out to tender a multi-million pound contract for a variety of IT services. read more »

French government to use PostgreSQL and LibreOffice in free software adoption push

French government agencies could become more active participants in free software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in a letter to ministers, while software giants Microsoft and Oracle might lose out as the government pushes free software such as LibreOffice or PostgreSQL in some areas. read more »

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Linux voting machines re-ignite e-voting debate in Belgium

Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. read more »

London 2012 Olympics website uses open source for winning results

The London 2012 Olympics begin in a matter of weeks. I bumped into Russ Ede, who is responsible for the London 2012 Olympics website, and he shared some amazing information about what it takes to create a website that can stand up to the most widely watched sports event in the world. read more »

Open source driving business app development, survey finds

Hardly a month goes by without some fresh evidence of the growing popularity of open source software, and perhaps one of the best examples in recent weeks has been Microsoft's creation of its new Open Technologies division. read more »

Open source the key to cloud innovation

In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open source software (FOSS) have become pervasive in computing: Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and more can be found in large numbers of enterprises across the globe. And open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing as well. read more »

10 up-and-coming open source projects you should know about

With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. read more »

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