After one year in existence, Google’s open-source browser has only 2.84 percent market share, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has 66.97 percent and Mozilla Firefox (also open source) has 22.98 percent share… Read more »
When Google recently announced its upcoming Chrome OS and emphasized that it is headed for netbooks, many people wondered what that would mean for Android. There had been a lot of… Read more »
Open source operating systems are suddenly flourishing, especially in the growing netbook and smartphone arenas. Moblin, the open source mobile platform launched by Intel and now overseen by The Linux Foundation,… Read more »
While it doesn’t produce the kind of instant name recognition that some other software platforms do, you’ve probably already used Hadoop many times. Hadoop is a free, open-source software framework, designed… Read more »
The promise of a great open source platform or application is always that armies of developers and people with new ideas can take a malleable core and extend it into new… Read more »
When database giant Oracle recently announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems, a shock wave went around the open source community. Sun, along with Red Hat and Novell, is one of… Read more »