Open Source Insider

September 2014

• Project Marilyn (open source) crowdfunded patent-free anti-cancer drug

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Sep 2014

Like the pharmaceutical industry today, the software industry was once historically dominated by big companies and proprietary code bases say Project Marilyn.

• Rackspace: APIs need (cloud uptime) love too

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Sep 2014

Rackspace has updated its eponymously named private cloud (powered by OpenStack) with a 99.99 percent OpenStack API uptime guarantee.

• OutSystems' mobile app backlog formula: deliver fast, change faster

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Sep 2014

Open Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) platform Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company OutSystems (Ed - does that make oRADpPaaS then?) has released its Platform 9 version this week. Claiming to be ...

• Does HP have the stomach to digest Eucalyptus?

  Adrian Bridgwater 12 Sep 2014

Commentators have so far not been complementary about the deal; Eucalyptus is not the only open cloud player to have been derided for losing its way recently.

• Community revolts against ISO software testing standards

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Sep 2014

The International Standards Organisation (ISO) wants us to adopt a new standard for software testing.

• Open source as a philosophy for life

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Sep 2014

Open source is as much a philosophy of living as it is a method of creating software argues Shapiro.

• Microwavable instant 'convenient' cloud analytics, just add data

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Sep 2014

Microwavable instant 'convenient' cloud analytics, just add data