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Open Source Hotness

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HP pivots, says open sourcing SDNs is right | Open source pitfalls – and how to avoid them

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Meet top open-source school in America
The researchers ranked 297 American educational institutions based on a range of different criteria, including participation in open-source projects like the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Open Source Science Project. The rankings also measured whether colleges used open-source software operationally – specifically, for virtual learning environments and web servers. Read More

In this Issue

HP pivots, says open sourcing SDNs is right
Seven months after dismissing OpenDaylight, HP has raised its membership in the vendor-driven open source SDN consortium to its highest and most expensive tier. Read More

Open source pitfalls – and how to avoid them
It's hard to imagine a company these days that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user desktops, or the Android operating system on mobile devices. Read More

7 cool free open source projects you need to check out
The free open source world continues to expand at a phenomenal pace. These are great "jumping off" points for developing products and technologies. Read More

Why we should preserve useless, old software
Open Source (and Free) Software provides a number of obvious, and often talked about, benefits – such as that whole "freedom" thing that the kids today like so much. Read More

5 Ways to Get Open Source Software Support
Support for open source software is 'unbundled' from the software itself. That actually makes it much easier to get the right level of support at the right price. Read More

Little-known Cisco open source project among contributors to OpenStack Neutron policy blueprint
Multiple vendors, including an open source project within Cisco, have had a policy blueprint approved for the OpenStack cloud platform's Neutron networking component. Read More

Open source trounces proprietary software for code defects, Coverity analysis finds
Forget bad headlines generated by the Heartbleed flaw, when it comes to code defects open source is still well ahead of proprietary software, generating fewer coding defects for every size of project, according to a new analysis by scanning service Coverity. Read More

Microsoft cheaper to use than open source software, UK CIO says
A UK government CIO says that every time government people compare open source and Microsoft products, Microsoft products always come out cheaper in the long run. Jos Creese, CIO of the Hampshire County Council, told Britain's "Computing" publication that part of the reason is that most staff are already familiar with Microsoft products and that Microsoft has been flexible and more helpful. Read More

Autodesk to offer Spark open software platform for 3-D printing
Autodesk announced Wednesday an open software platform for 3-D printing called Spark, which will be open and freely licensable to manufacturers and others. Read More

Tip of the Hat: Heartbleed exposes an open source failing
Computerworld offers a Tip of the Hat to The Register's Chris Williams for his insights on how a lack of oversight of open source technologies contributed to to the creation -- and the two-year spread -- of the Heartbleed bug. Read More

DARPA shows off clearinghouse site for open-source code and information
he Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency debuted a new website dedicated to sharing open-source data and publications recently, calling it the DARPA Open Catalog. There are a number of different aims for the Open Catalog. By sharing open-source code freely, DARPA says it hopes to create a community of developers who are experts in software for government use. Program manager Chris White said that the collaborative nature of open-source was another incentive for the project. Read More

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