Open Source Insider

February 2013

• Azure "openness & interoperability" wins open ratification

  Adrian Bridgwater 28 Feb 2013

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has confirmed that Microsoft has joined the organisation as a contributor member.

• Rackspace acquires ObjectRocket open source MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS)

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Feb 2013

Rackspace has been on a shopping spree and made a move to expand its open cloud platform by acquiring ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider.

• Hold on please caller, open source telephony is calling

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Feb 2013

Two days walking around the GSMA's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona is hard work on the feet, the eyes and ears plus also the brain too.

• Do we need an open source GPS alternative?

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 Feb 2013

Although occasionally infuriating around roundabouts and new developments, we have placed an inordinate amount of faith in Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites as the exist for in-car and/or ...

• Rackspace Python IP master fights patent trolls

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Feb 2013

Open cloud company Rackspace has appointed an open source industry guru to its VP of intellectual property position.

• Apache snapshots hunted down

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Feb 2013

Recovery-as-a-Service in open cloud country is on the way. Vision Solutions has taken its replication and disaster recovery services into sharper open computing territory by adding a ...

• Ferrari-styled titanium & sapphire Android handset

  Adrian Bridgwater 12 Feb 2013

A spokesperson from Vertu has been quoted on BBC news detailing the firm's insistence upon aligning to the Android ecosystem for reasons including device integration and global reach.

• Robotic latex tentacle code open sourced, at last!

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Feb 2013

The majority of robotic latex tentacle users have, up until this point, had to make do with locked in proprietary software code to power their mechanical rubber appendages.

• Student rookies driving open source in banking

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Feb 2013

The Black Duck CEO says that it is clear that banks will benefit from an IT strategy that embraces broader use of open source

• An open source games editor everyone can use?

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Feb 2013

Independent developer Makslane Rodrigues has released Game Editor, a free and open source cross platform game creation application. What does cross platform mean to the true open source evangelist? ...

• Microsoft's extends open source developer love

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Feb 2013

A portion of Microsoft's suite of developer tools will now support Git, the distributed version control system (DVCS) maintained by the open source community.

• Software innovation will blast monolithic hardware

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Feb 2013

The forward "predictions for 2013" pre-Christmas honeymoon is now thankfully over. Time enough then... for a serious look at software futures.