December 13 Open Source News

Does Open Source Software Put Government Security at Risk? DaniWeb (blog) The Obama Administration vows to cut costs in part by using open source software (Software whose source code is made available to the user), cloud computing ...

Open Source Hardware 2009 (Make) LWN.net Make Magazine has posted a guide to over 125 open source hardware projects. "Fab@Home is a project dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can ...

Red Hat Open Sources SPICE SYS-CON Media (press release) Red Hat expects its open source development to help break down the barriers to virtualization adoption as well as contribute to interoperability. ...

French Military Picks Mozilla Email Client Over Microsoft Outlook ShortNews.com The open source option was chosen because it could be extended to suit their needs, unlike Microsoft Outlook, which is closed-source. ...

openlogic Announces Source Code Scanning and License Compliance Module for ... PR-CANADA.net (press release) openlogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced a new Source Code ...

Chrome: The new colour of OS Hindu The source code of Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS, was released a couple of weeks ago and, according to the official Google ...

Google Releases Experimental Phone to Employees PC World Instead, it released an open source operating system that other hardware vendors can use to make phones. In the Google blog post, Mario Queiroz, ...

Gartner Predicts that Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production ... PR-USA.net (press release) Egham, UK, Once the preserve of cash-strapped organizations, open-source business intelligence (BI) tools are becoming a mainstream deployment option for ...

Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (12-Dec-09) CMSWire NET, An Open Source Blogging Platform. For those who want to go their own way in the blogosphere and ignore the big guns of WordPress, Blogger.com, ...