Open Source News & Articles

Not only is Google getting ready to launch its own tablet, but the company will create an online store to sell the upcoming Nexus device, as well as rivals' models in an attempt to avoid claims of favoritism. With a new cloud storage service plus a dedicated games store, the Googleverse is booming.

In his morning keynote, open source CMS Drupal creator Dries Buytaert offered a vision of what to expect at this week's DrupalCon, and explained the expectations for Drupal 8.

“What Java did for the Internet, they (EMC Greenplum) will do for the web.” That’s a pretty profound proclamation, especially when you consider who’s making it; none other than Scott McNealy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, where Java was created in the early 1990’s.

Later today, Acquia is releasing an infographic that illustrates 10 years of Drupal growth, from the dorm room to the boardroom -- and we got an exclusive early look at Acquia's look back.

Phase2, an open source technology solutions provider with a focus on publishing, government, public policy and non-profit clients announced that the company has merged with Treehouse Agency, a company that builds large-scale websites on the open source Drupal CMS.

If you use open source enterprise CMS platform Nuxeo and open source portal platform Liferay, we have good news for you. The vendors announced that Nuxeo’s platform is certified as a content source for Liferay.

French-American based Commerce Guys announced today an influx of US$ 5 million in Series A funding led by European venture firms Alven Capital, Espoo and ISAI.

With support from Microsoft, Automattic built and released a free, open source WordPress.com app for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

MarkLogic was doing big data long before big data became a required bullet point on every database provider’s sales slides, and it is continuing to evolve. Today at Strata, MarkLogic announced it has joined the technology partner program of Yahoo’s Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks.

Rackspace has taken the next step in getting two-year old open source cloud, OpenStack, ready for prime time. This week the hosting giant will begin stress-testing its OpenStack implementation by running tens of thousands of instances.

Pentaho is continuing its efforts to make big data a first -class citizen in business analytics. In October of last year, the open source business analytics provider began its efforts to comprehensively embrace big data by adding support for Hadoop and a few other NoSQL data sources. Now the company is going a step further.

March 19 will be here before you know it. Thousands of people will flock to Denver, Colorado for a week of learning and networking with Drupal community members.

The backlash against the buzzword of the year -- big data -- to some extent has begun. As Forrester's James Kobielus so eloquently put it, “Some shiny new thing gets built up until it’s too big for its britches and then we delight in shooting it down.” Practitioners who live and breathe content and information management technology on a daily basis can become tired of the hype behind new labels and acronyms as they get more and more attention from technology marketers and pundits.

Open source portal provider Liferay has released a new version of its enterprise portal, Liferay Portal 6.1 Enterprise Edition (EE). The latest release features several usability enhancements and multiple improvements to empower end users to create content and automate process without engaging a developer.

Open source content management system (CMS) vendor Jahia has released a new version of their platform. Jahia 6.6 includes several notable enhancements to Jahia Studio, the free user interface builder the company introduced in its last release, and the core platform.