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Red Hat’s middleware division, JBoss, recently held a virtual conference to announce several product updates, including a new version of JBoss Portal Platform. It also unveiled plans to create a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. Craig Muzilla, vice president of JBoss, discussed these announcement and the issue of [...]

With a global recession looming, software development managers are being asked to slash resource budgets in 2009 while maintaining schedules. When you need to deliver more features with fewer coding resources, there is only one answer: hybrid development. Hybrid software development involves the combination of internally developed code with external code from vendors, partners, and, [...]

Claims that open source software compromises security are largely false and misleading, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based software risk analysis company said today.
Officials with Ounce Labs Inc. say that the relative security of software – be it open source, commercial or home-grown – really just depends on whether security was a top priority during the development cycle.
Ounce [...]

Everywhere we turn these days, we see evidence of open source developers trading their time and hard work for little more than the hope of benefiting the ever-growing open source community.
While there are many companies world-wide enjoying the benefits of a number of Linux and open source products, there are instances where creating sustainable employment [...]

Microsoft has a long history of rivaling open source, a history that is now seeing the company increasingly warming up to the competitive technology and business model. An illustrative example in this context is the Microsoft Open Source Club, a project that made its debut on the software giant’s repository for open-source projects: CodePlex. According [...]

Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE).
The new software is offered under the Lesser GPL for the first time, as well as the main GPL and two commercial licenses dating [...]

Do you remember when you were one and a half and you figured out how to grab your shoulder blade? Probably not. That is part of the reason why 13 research centers got together to build RobotCub.This advanced, humanoid robot is built in the image of a three and half year old human. It took [...]

The recession is a good opportunity for out-of-work developers to turn their hand to open-source software, a leader of a free software group suggested on Tuesday.
In fact, all companies, programmers and other IT professionals would do well to look into free software, Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, said in a speech [...]

Over at Forbes.com I spied an article with the intriguing title “The Open-Source Collaboration Gap,” which delves into the whole question of why the vast majority of contributions to open source projects come from individuals and not companies or institutions. Two questions came to my lips: 1) Is that the case? and 2) If so, [...]

The open source community is not quite as free-wheeling as it was a decade ago. Now, industry titans like IBM and even one-time nemesis Microsoft are part of the ecosystem, blurring the lines between open and proprietary models.
Not many years ago, the open source software ecosystem and proprietary models might have been thought of as [...]