I was asked participate on a panel on open source geospatial organized by Eclipse LocationTech at the Location Intelligence in Washington DC. I decided to look at how software had changed since the early days […]
OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being open, simple to implement, and massively scalable. The OpenStack […]
At the NRECA TechAdvantage conference in New Orleans Craig Miller and David Pinney of the Cooperative Research Network (CRN) gave an overview of a joint project between the Depatrment of Energy (DoE), NRECA, several electric […]
Microsoft has announced that Team Foundation Server and Team Foundation Service (TFS), Microsoft’s collaboration platform, now supports Git, the version control system used by many open source projects. There is a plugin for Microsoft Visual […]
Steve Walli of the Outercurve Foundation has published a very perceptive discussion of why the phenomenon of the open source software foundation (neutral non-profit) has become so important in the free and open source software […]
A while back Henrik Ingo was asked to do a study of the most popular open source projects to see what governance model they used and whether the governance model had any impact on how […]
Apache Foundation and corporate engagement As I remember the story, back in the late 1990’s IBM, seeing a need for a http server for the rapidly developing internet market, looked at a couple of alternatives, […]
I’ve blogged about the FCC’s broadband map before. Last year the National Broadband Map was launched with more than 25 million records showing where broadband Internet service is available, the technology used to provide the […]