Application Framework for the development of large scale web portals. [edit]
Facebook has stepped up its contribution to the open source community with the release of the Cassandra project on Google Code. The location is mildly ironic: Cassandra is roughly an open source alternative to Google's internal "BigTable" storage system. (BigTable itself isn't open source, though you can gain access to it via the AppEngine DataStore API). Cassandra isn't for everyone, but if you're dealing with scalability issues arising from database concurrency bottlenecks, it's something that you should know about.
The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project, backed by the European Commission and several organizations, has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open source software quality-checking tool.....
Are enterprises still not getting the full benefits of open source?.....
Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code.....