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informationweek.in By Marten Mickos, May 13, 2013

Today, open source cloud platforms are winning the IaaS battle, open source storage and file systems are expanding their footprint, and open source databases are replacing closed source rivals. Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems explains why nearly everything is being snatched by open source software

(MongoDB is a Corporate Member and strong supporter of OSSI.)

drdobbs.com By Adrian Bridgwater, May 12, 2013

Lifecycle management company White Source has presented new research that claims to be able to quantify the degree to which open source components depend on other open source libraries, especially where multiple different licenses are involved.

wired.com By Cade Metz 05.08.13

Google solved the problem ages ago, but only for itself. Now, Facebook is building a solution for everyone else.

futuregov.asia By Clarice Africa | 8 May 2013

“Ten years ago, Open Source — notably Linux — was often labelled a ‘fad’ or destined for the ‘hobbyist’ market,” said Mark Bohannon, Vice President for Corporate Affairs & Global Public Policy at Red Hat.

sys-con.com By PR Newswire May 7, 2013

Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, today announced the availability of the 2012 Coverity Scan^™ Open Source Report. The report details the analysis of more than 450 million lines of software code through the Coverity Scan service, the single largest sample size that the report has studied to date. The service, which began as the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, was initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006 and is now managed by Coverity.

fortmilltimes.com Tuesday, May. 07, 2013 

Open source software leader introduces game-changing features that enable corporate developers to quickly become proficient with Big Data and Hadoop

zdnet.com By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols May 2, 2013

Red Hat announced on May 1 that its Gluster Community "has extended its charter from a single project to a multi-project open-source community for open software-defined storage."

infoworld.com By Paul Krill April 30, 2013

Broadcast giant backs open source software, including Apache Hadoop distributed computing system and MySQL database

enterpriseappstoday.com April 30, 2013 By Paul Rubens

There's more -- much more -- to the Big Data software ecosystem than Hadoop. Here are four open source projects that will help you get big benefits from Big Data.

online.wsj.com Apr 30, 2013

 New Sonatype Survey Says Applications Are at Least 80% Component-Based, Yet 76% of Organizations Lack Component Management

 Largest Annual Survey of Developers Using Open Source Points to Exploding Reliance on Components; a Lack of Governance and Control by Most Organizations; and a Dire Need for New Approaches to Application Security