Articles tagged ‘apache’

In this article we’ll focus on one of the most popular cloud computing solutions today, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2.

Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.

The most popular open source projects are beginning to share the limelight with lesser known projects because of a phenomenon called the Long Tail. The Long Tail is key to the success of open source.

Real decision makers could use the lessons they learn from experimenting in v-government to implement policy and practice in real government.

Weak industry momentum is prompting China to re-think its open source software business strategy. This is a good time for China and others to look beyond product models based on traditional proprietary thinking, and see the wider doors of opportunity that open source software services can open.

Open Source Software (OSS) embodies a spectrum of evolutionary forces enabling market creation and change that can reward investment in sometimes surprising ways. Furthermore, Open Source's model of collaborative technology development can be applied to other technology and information fields such as biological sciences, manufacturing and knowledge creation.

OSS and proprietary software are different sorts of animals. Evolution favors collaborators in OSS while preferring winners-take-all within proprietary species.

In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), I've really come to like it. The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific.

This year’s Foo Camp remixed brainstorming amongst peers. Focused yet relaxed discussions over a couple of days resulted in ideas and solutions, strengthened social networks and crystalized thoughts into next steps for all.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.