Open Source Insider

February 2014

• Benchmarks are worthless right?

  Adrian Bridgwater 28 Feb 2014

OpenStack vendor Mirantis is clearly unperturbed by such naysaying and has just carried out a test on OpenStack 4.0 (Havana) deployed on IBM SoftLayer.

• Barbie runs Linux

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Feb 2014

The latest iteration of the Barbe doll merchandise range sees everybody's favourite blonde girl step into a new role as a software application developer.

• Actian's industrialised exoskeleton for Hadoop

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Feb 2014

So how much reality is there in stories suggesting that many organisations have made significant Hadoop investments, but most projects are still experimental?

• Horton sees Red and goes killer

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Feb 2014

Horton sees Red and goes killer

• How air conditioning teaches us about big data analytics in the Internet of Everything

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Feb 2014

A new native integration arrives this week between open source business analytics tool Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) with Storm and YARN.

• Clumsy Bird is the new open source Flappy Bird

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Feb 2014

A victim of its own success, Vietnamese Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen had started to receive death threats from gamer fans who had found the game too addictive

• Which operating system will colonise the Internet of Things?

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Feb 2014

Will Android win or will the best API proliferation win or will a variety of operating systems win just as they have done at the desktop and on mobile?

• Sex equality for all in open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Feb 2014

A better title for this piece would have been "No sex please, we're open source", but that would surely have been sexist, right?

• Rackspace: so open, employees can compete with Rackspace

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Feb 2014

"If a Racker would like to contribute to a project that is directly competitive with Rackspace, we'd like to understand why before they contribute," writes Lindberg.

• SUSE kGraft patches Linux in live run time

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Feb 2014

The open source world this week hears that SUSE has developed a new technology called known as kGraft for live run-time patching of the Linux kernel.

• Shouldn't we call it big 'open managed' data?

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Feb 2014

Open source management tools (and by that term "management" we mean application deployment and release management functions, higher level automation controls and/or data and processing ...