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Insight from members of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Apache powers half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhances the lives of countless users and developers. Established in 1999 to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations "The Apache Way", the ASF oversees 150+ projects led by a volunteer community of over 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers across six continents. Notable Apache projects include Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, OpenOffice.org, Tomcat, and the flagship Apache HTTP Server, which powers more than 326 million Websites across the globe. From enterprise Open Source adoption, industry trends, emerging innovations, and developer and community management issues, the opinions expressed in this blog are those of the individual authors and do not represent the official position of the ASF.
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Be lazy, be fast
Why lazy consensus is the Apache way
At its best Open Source software is about accelerating the pace of innovation by enabling unconnected groups to collaborate across organisational borders. It is a software development process that allows people to freely share ideas and implementations among a community...
January 25, 2012 5:25 PM Read Full Post
Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun
The turbocharged Diesel of Open Source?
My current Fiat Punto Sport is the second Diesel car that I own, and I love those engines. Very smooth yet quite powerful acceleration, good fuel savings, a discount on state taxes thanks to low pollution, and it's very reliable...
December 7, 2011 4:31 PM Read Full Post
Shaping the future with participation
Twitter is just one organisation using components that originate in the Hadoop community
Back in 2003 a small group of developers started working to turn their vision of an open source web search engine into reality. Based on Apache Lucene as core indexing component they added capabilities for crawling the web to allow...
October 31, 2011 11:19 AM Read Full Post
Twitter, open source, DNA and bread making
Increasing your rate of innovation
Many commentators, myself included, point to open source as being a route to open innovation in software. Open source licences certainly facilitate the free flow of information and the sharing of resources across organizational boundaries. However, they do not provide...
October 24, 2011 9:09 AM Read Full Post
Delivering on the promise
Apache and sustainable open source innovation
The year 2010 was a troubled one for several open source projects. We’ve seen projects leaving hosting services in a hurry after finding their services blocked for unspecified amounts of time. People and companies fighting over ownership of project names...
January 1, 2011 7:13 PM Read Full Post
Open languages are not required
Should I use Java?
There has been a lot of discussion over the past few months about Java, and whether it is an open language or a proprietary language. This has led to speculation about whether it makes sense to invest in Java, should...
November 30, 2010 6:51 AM Read Full Post
Great software is like a great music teacher
Enterprise software and phoney web front ends
I'm amazed at how many so-called "enterprise software systems" do not embrace the Web model in 2010, making them way much harder and much less fun to use than they should be. I have recently started making parallels between this...
November 22, 2010 10:31 AM Read Full Post
The age of intelligence - for software at least
A new era is here
Despite the seemingly never ending noise coming out of reality show contestants and politicians these days, we are, in fact, in a new era of intelligence - for software. That’s right: in case you haven’t noticed, the machines are getting...
November 5, 2010 12:51 PM Read Full Post
Are you an open source friend?
It is more than just following the license
The Open Source and Free Software communities spend a lot of time talking about licenses. What the license terms mean, how they combine, which license is best, and many more. To be honest, most of these questions are rather arcane...
October 29, 2010 9:52 AM Read Full Post
What does IBM joining OpenJDK mean for Java?
Oracle is not playing fair
This week IBM announced it would be supporting Oracle's OpenJDK. At first glance it seems like "Great!" Isn't it good that two big supporters of Java are getting behind a single open source project? Well, in my personal opinion, no....
October 14, 2010 10:37 AM Read Full Post
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