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No, the Cloud is Not Killing Open Source

Andrea DiMaio from the Gartner Blog Network asks an interesting question in a post titled Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source in Government?, and InfoWorld weighs in on the issue as well. One might as well not limit the question to government usage. Is cloud computing killing open source in general? DiMaio notes that government officials in London and Washington D.C. are finding that primary drivers for open source adoption--including cost savings and vendor independence--are going away, while free, cloud applications proliferate and grab headlines.

Do Google Docs and Zoho's applications spell doom for, say, the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications? I think cloud computing and open source are on a collision course to grow together, with neither killing the other.



A Collection of Open Source Cloud Resources

When North Bridge Partners did its Future of Open Source Survey earlier this year, and respondents were asked which trends are having the greatest impact on commercial open source players, Software as a Service (Saas) was ranked number one. Cloud computing, which is inextricably linked with SaaS, was also ranked very highly. As more and more people favor online hosted applications, the world of open source has to respond, and it already is. In this post, you'll find several good resources on cloud and SaaS solutions as they relate to open source.


Not Open Source, But Free: Four Must-Have Apps

While OStatic is dedicated to open source, one of the big attractions with open source applications for many users is that they're free. That's why when we see really outstanding freeware applications--even though they're not open source--we still call them out. In this post, I'll discuss four really outstanding freeware options. Windows and Mac users will find tools to like here, and the price is right.