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Open source solution provider Red Hat announced Monday that it will collaborate with Google to enable Red Hat customers to move eligible Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to Google Compute Engine using Red Hat Cloud Access.

For long we have been hearing strories that Android is unsafe, unstable, while iOS is reliable. But new data that has emerged will totally change the picture.

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system.

The best ever MariaDB is now available! In 2013, Wikimedia Foundation, the people behind Wikipedia, announced the migration of many of its production MySQL systems over to MariaDB and Google confirmed it aims to move its thousand-plus MySQL instances over to MariaDB technology.

We all know Verizon uses open-source operating systems and software in its products and services. But, Verizon is now becoming a major working partner in open-source communities.

As Red Hat looks for future growth, the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is front and center.

Red Hat is out with a slew of news this week. As Susan covered earlier, the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, aided by strong subscription growth for its Linux operating system, but also forecast full-year profit following below average analyst estimates. Along with that news, the company announced the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 Beta, which builds on the recent … Read More

This is an overview providing 10 Linux open-source replacements for various commercial power tools, most of them available only on Windows.

Why replace Windows XP with Linux Mint? For starters it looks and works a lot like XP. You may also have considered switching to a Mac and gotten hives from just the thought, or contemplated a Chromebook but couldn’t get past the idea of relying so much on the Internet and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Apple lost the lion’s share of the global tablet market in 2013, though the iPad remained the top seller, says Gartner. Fueled by a 127 percent surged in worldwide sales, Android tablets collectively overtook the iPad last year, research firm Gartner said Monday. But Apple’s share of the tablet market dropped to 36 percent from 52.

The Gear 2 and Gear Neo will ship with 100 Tizen apps, mostly ported over from the first generation Galaxy Gear, and an open SDK is available to make more. Also at MWC, the Tizen Project announced winners of the Tizen App Challenge (see farther below).

Cisco has released open source security software designed for building secure corporate Internet firewalls called OpenAppID. While the open source community had previously postulated as to how far Cisco would develop Snort (as a company NOT famed for open source development) we now see Cisco saying it is dedicated to making it happen. Open source application detection and control here is enabled by Cisco’s new OpenAppID application-focused detection language. Once again, the Not Very Open Source so far Cisco did in fact last year announced it was joining IBM (and others in the networking business) to create an open source framework to ensure various vendors products work appropriately together.

SUSE®, the first to release an enterprise-grade OpenStack distribution, is pleased to announce the availability of SUSE Cloud 3. Backed by the excellence of the SUSE engineering and support organizations, SUSE Cloud provides an automated cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to speed the delivery of IT services while improving resource utilization. SUSE Cloud is ready for production deployments today, and its advanced cloud technology and broad solution choice help ensure a smooth deployment.

SUSE has announced theavailability of SUSE Cloud 3, the next version of its OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds.