Open source news stories

“Perceptions of open source software are evolving. What was once seen as potential risk is now seen as an enabler for both security and business."

Open source giant Red Hat's latest report, 'The State of Enterprise Open Source 2022,' reveals why the community is a catalyst for changing the working world as we know it.

With almost 30 years of experience in open source software, Red Hat knows a thing or two about how to successfully run a business, and the company has just released its latest information on the open hybrid ecosystem.

DiUS has announced it has entered a definitive agreement to sell its global contract-testing collaboration platform, Pactflow, to SmartBear.

A free training course on developing secure software from the Open Source Security Foundation is now available.

GitHub has released three new features for GitHub Actions to assist teams of all sizes to work faster at scale and enable increased productivity.

"In the post-pandemic world, enterprises continue to keep up with the digitalisation of their infrastructure, processes, people, and customer experiences."

Enterprise open source is increasingly seen as having many of the same positive attributes as proprietary software.

Snowflake has announced its intent to acquire Streamlit, enabling global developers and data scientists to mobilise data. 

Dell Technologies has introduced new telecommunications solutions and services to help CSPs affordably ramp their transformation to open, cloud-native networks.

Kong has announced Kong Enterprise 2.7, a service connectivity platform that enables companies to manage APIs and microservices at scale.

"The joy of open source is the joy of sharing, learning from others and building capability that can be used anywhere by anyone."

The Sandbox has committed US$50M to Brinc for The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program, targeting 100 startups to enhance the open metaverse.

The Linux Foundation summarises the progress made in 2021 towards its goal of ensuring anyone can start an open-source technology career.

Last year's Apache Log4j vulnerability created a lot of chaos, so what can be done to protect companies from the security implications?

Open-source data streaming company Confluent has launched its expansion of new connectors and on-demand scaling to break down data silos.

Enterprises face an overwhelming degree of technological complexity due to code, application and cloud and network sprawl, making it more difficult to know what’s happening in the tech stack and how to fix problems as they arise.

Vocus has announced the launch of Datahub, a new cloud storage solution in partnership with open-source data storage vendor SoftIron.

Team82 and JFrog have announced the discovery of 14 vulnerabilities affecting the latest version of BusyBox.

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled a new in-house processor designed for use in its data centres. 

"By open sourcing Zero-Trust Access and GitOps services, we are doing our part in furthering the community's goals of making cloud-native computing ubiquitous."

Styra, founders of the Open Policy Agent (OPA), have announced a new partnership with Kong. 

The ninth annual Open Source Jobs Report examines trends in open-source hiring, retention, and training.

Cloudera has announced the appointment of Robert Yue as the new vice president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand.