Open Source / GPL

Fortify Software announced that Fortify’s Security Research Group has identified a new class of security vulnerabilities, known as cross–build injection. These vulnerabilities, which Fortify…

Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides general…

A lot of digital ink is spilled over the usability of open source software and how a lack thereof hinders the adoption of both Linux and open source software packages in general. Among the…

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. today announced the signing of another global customer, Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes company. Group 1, the world’s leading provider of mailstream software,…

Industry experts have identified cultural, as well as technical, factors affecting the take up of open source software in the UK.

Many countries in the European Union are showing…

Companies that are adopting open source in the contact centre are being drawn by the low cost, as well as the greater control and flexibility that open source telephony offers. However, as with…

One of the most intriguing launches at Interbike was a pairing of power measuring crank spider and power meter/global positioning system (GPS)/heart rate monitor/altimeter computer from new…

The slowdown in venture capital funding for Linux and open source-related vendors continued in the third quarter as disclosed funding deals were down 41.6% to $77.8m*, compared to $133.3m in the…

"It turns out that perhaps the best way to beat guerrilla insurgents is by becoming one or, at least, funding one. Or, as John Robb argues on the Global Guerrillas blog, funding and partnering…

As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open…