February 2 Open Source News

Facebook Prepares To Open Source A New PHP AllFacebook (blog) Over the weekend, the SDTimes suggested that Facebook will officially announce their latest open-source project: a new PHP compiler (referenced off the ...

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) Open source doesn't overwhelm a proprietary system. It whittles away at its lead, slowly and sometimes unsteadily. It's the old Aesop story of the tortoise ...

Why open source is health reform ZDNet (blog) Open source starts by connecting data. As Matt Mattox of Axial observed last week (talking with Jason Hibbets of Red Hat), it drives systems toward an open ..

Open-Source ATI Evergreen Support Arrives Benchmark Reviews The open-source ATI driver currently offers no 2D (EXA) acceleration and the 3D support either through a classic Mesa driver or Gallium3D also is not yet ...

Easier but not easy enough Wall Street Journal By Walter S. Mossberg The good thing about open-source software is that it harnesses the talents of techies around the world. ...

Lessons learned from the Open Data front lines O'Reilly Radar (blog) This is the exact analogue of an open source software failure mode: often companies think they can get all the benefits of open source simply by releasing ...

Linux Foundation: mobile Linux needs "magic" to beat Apple Ars Technica In his latest blog entry, Zemlin contends that Linux still has the price advantage, but he acknowledges that the open source operating system still can't ...

Microsoft's Azure cloud is officially open for business ZDNet (blog) Microsoft has been working with a variety of partners to make open-source tools available for Azure — everything from Eclipse, to PHP. ...