Darryl K. Taft

PORTLAND, Ore. €” The open-source community creates tremendous value for the U.S. economy, driving small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and empowering entrepreneurs, according to a top open-source supporter. At the O€™Reilly Open Source Convention 2012 (OSCON) here, Tim O€™Reilly, founder of O€™Reilly Media, exhorted open-source developers to €œwork on stuff that matters€ and to create […]

PORTLAND, Ore. €“ Adobe€™s PhoneGap team announced the release of PhoneGap 2.0, the latest release of the open-source mobile development framework. Tapping into the developer crowd in town for the O€™Reilly Open Source Convention 2012 (OSCON), the PhoneGap team held its second annual PhoneGap Day here on July 20, enabling attendees to meet with the […]

PORTLAND, Ore. €” As Microsoft is all about developers, the company is willing to go wherever it must to reach developers where they live including the open-source world. That Microsoft is supporting open-source development efforts is not new, but that it is doing it so purposefully and methodically may come as a surprise to some. […]

Stuff That Matters O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly says open-source developers should work on stuff that matters. Halls of Open Source The main hall, including the registration area for OSCON 2012. Ward Cunningham Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, imparts some of his knowledge to OSCON attendees, giving back to the community. Welcome to OSCON […]

PORTLAND, Ore. €” Dell has announced the expansion of three open-source software and cloud computing initiatives: the formalization of Project Sputnik resulting in a Dell product in the fall, its Dell€™s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem to include Pentaho and Datameer, and enhancements to Dell€™s OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution and the Dell Cloudera solution. Dell officially launched Project […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Open Source Initiative, a non-profit organization that advocates for open-source software and builds bridges between open-source communities, announced that it is accepting applications for Individual Membership, starting immediately. Up to now, individuals were not allowed to join the OSI. However that has changed and open source community members worldwide are invited […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Black Duck Software has announced key updates to Ohloh.net, the company€™s comprehensive online directory of open source projects, contributors and code, as well as a new code searching capability. At the O€™Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2012 here, Black Duck said that effective immediately, Ohloh.net data has been licensed under the Creative […]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be generally available on Oct. 26. That means the much-anticipated operating system will be available for PCs shipping for the holiday shopping season. At its Worldwide Partner Conference last week in Toronto, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would be released to manufacturers (RTM) during the first week in […]

IBM reported second-quarter revenue of $25.8 billion, down 3 percent from a year earlier, but net income rose 6 percent in this interval to $3.9 billion. IBM said currency negatively impacted revenue growth by approximately $1 billion. €œIn the second quarter, we delivered strong profit, earnings per share and free cash flow growth. This performance […]

Customer Focus AWS customers will play a significant role in the conference whether they are running their own sessions or participating in AWS sessions. Engaging With Amazon re: Invent will be an opportunity for attendees to engage directly with AWS solution architects, support teams, service leads, etc. Attendees can bring their architecture diagram and sit […]