Open-Source news from FierceCIO

Antispam appliance vendor Barracuda has revealed that it has made a US$186 million cash offer for Sourcefire. This is 13 percent more than the company's current's current stock price, though half

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PC World conducted an informal survey of its readers to find the most annoying practices and policies of technology companies. The results included complaints about the software sunset policies of Read more...

Just because they release early and often doesn't mean that you shouldn't still get excited: the good folks at Canonical have just unleashed version 8.04 of their beloved Linux distro Ubuntu and

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Open-source software may be a blessing in disguise for IT offices that are forced to tighten their belts because of economic woes. "The economic slowdown in the United States may actually boost Read more...

> Gartner: 80% of apps to use open-source by 2012. Read more...

If you dual boot Windows and Linux on your machine, you likely know the annoyance that's involved with having to update preferences, documents and applications in two different locations. Read more...

If you've ever run a website, chances are pretty high that you've dealt with the MySQL database management system. And if you've ever used a piece of open-source software, chances are that you've Read more...

Sure, you love open-source software but you just can't help but long for an Outlook-style program that integrates all of your productivity apps into one page. Fear not, open-source fan: Read more...

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is not winning any popularity contests these days. Bill Gates, the outgoing head of Microsoft, disclosed on Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show that Read more...

So much for staying "open," eh? Granted, it's no surprise--we've known that the OLPC XO was getting Windows XP for a Read more...