Open Source

Rails upgrade fixes security issues, Ruby 1.9 compatibility

XSS protection is cited as major feature of the release, but Rails 3.0 release date "up in the air"

What’s new with Acquia?

Best known for helping move Whitehouse.gov to open source Drupal, Acquia has big plans ahead

Google boosts Chrome dev tools

Improvements include the addition of a heap profiler for JavaScript and a tab offering overviews of where time is spent when loading a Web app

Open-Xchange opens e-mail inbox to Facebook, Twitter

The open source company wants to ease the burden of handling different ways of communicating

Provisioning a Hudson CI server

Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

Implementations of the dynamic language leverage popular platforms to broaden its appeal

Will it be a winner-take-all market for the cloud?

In this potential clash of the titans, the fight for open standards in the cloud market could easily fall by the wayside

Corporate IT turns to open-source virtualization

Savings are a big factor in the move to open-source virtualization, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements

CouchDB is so Groovy

Europe’s dishonest squeeze play on Oracle over MySQL

The EU claims to be the friend of open source. But insisting on a spin-off of MySQL benefits no one -- except a tiny European software maker afraid to compete with Oracle