Open Source Insider

January 2016

• Walmart's bricks & mortar to digital business journey

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Jan 2016

Couchbase has announced support for @WalmartLab's release of OneOps to the open source community through Github.

• And now for something completely analytical... Pentaho goes native Python

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Jan 2016

Pentaho (let's remember to call it a Hitachi Group company) has announced news of its labs team now completing development of native integration for Python.

• IBM z Systems mainframes, unlikely champions of open source?

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Jan 2016

IBM z Systems mainframes, unlikely champions of open source?

• Avast builds on Android anti-malware pedigree with new HQ

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Jan 2016

Avast Software was kind of 'one of those Central and Eastern Europe' (CEE) security firms along with the other usual suspects that most of us can name... and then, it kind of became something more ...

• Poker Face? Red Hat plays 'de facto standard' card for enterprise Java apps

  Adrian Bridgwater 19 Jan 2016

There's that bit (quite a few bits actually) during the Red Hat Summit conventions every year when the middleware team gets really excited about its product set.

• Zulu embedded inside the Internet of Things

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Jan 2016

Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced Zulu Embedded now available to download on the Wind River Marketplace.

• Red Hat Ansible 2.0: a 'playbook' for agentless automation

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Jan 2016

We know that Red Hat is a major player in the open source enterprise space (on many levels) and Ansible was (and still is) a company (now an internal Red Hat brand) that makes "agentless" ...

• Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Toyota: all driving more Linux into cars

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Jan 2016

Ford Motor Company has for some time now been developing its open source Smart Device Link (SDL) middleware framework.

• Cheers Drive! Bristol City Council opens up a real 'gert lush' transport API

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Jan 2016

The Bristol API (Transport) supports the Council's approach to opening up data sets, as it already does through the Bristol Open Data portal

• IoT Open Interconnect Consortium, open... but not open enough?

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Jan 2016

The OIC itself lists (among others) Intel, Samsung, Dell and Cisco among its ranks... a good spread for sure, but is it enough?

• Debian operating system founder Ian Murdock dies age 42

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Jan 2016

Creator of the open source Debian operating system Ian Murdock has died at age 42.