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Lisa Hoover

Lisa is a freelance writer and professional blogger with many years experience covering the tech industry and open source community. A native of Chicago, Lisa lives in Florida where she's raising three rambunctious boys and an assortment of pets. Disclaimer: I am not an Intel employee. Any comments and view expressed are purely my own and do not represent the position of Intel in any way.

Engine Yard Launches Grant Program to Support Open Source Developers

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on January 24, 2011 at 11:26 am
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One of the biggest conundrums in open source software development is how to fund a project. It's tough to attract and keep OSS contributors or sustain long-term project growth with little to no cash flow, but open source projects are rarely moneymakers during the critical early days of development. Engine Yard, a cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service [...]

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Open Source Trends to Watch in 2011

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on January 11, 2011 at 1:52 pm
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From open source mobile platform development to the continued rise of public open source companies like Red Hat, 2010 was a banner year for the open source industry. To be sure, there are plenty of trends to watch in 2011. Let's take a look at a few: Mashable's Jolie O'Dell predicts Ruby will get some [...]

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Linux Adoption on the Rise in Enterprise

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on January 3, 2011 at 10:18 am
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A recent survey by the Linux Foundation indicates the adoption of Linux is overtaking Windows enterprise level at quite a rapid clip. Indeed, nearly 80% of the 1,948 survey respondants plan to add more Linux to their business' infrastructure within the next five years, while only 21% plan to add additional Microsoft servers. According to [...]

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MeeGo Conference 2010 Wrap-Up

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on December 10, 2010 at 11:20 am
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The MeeGo Conference 2010 wrapped up in Dublin recently with a whole lot of information crammed into a mere three days worth of sessions. If you weren't able to attend, here's some of what you missed. AMD announced its intent to contribute engineering resources to the MeeGo project. Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice president, software development, [...]

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Intel's Cloud 2015 and the Open Data Center Alliance

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on November 30, 2010 at 10:19 am
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As this year winds to a close (already?), many of us are thinking about what 2011 holds. The strategists at Intel, however, are a few years ahead of us and already considering what 2015 will look like, especially its vision of cloud computing. Given how quickly the technology is evolving, expect to see three elements [...]

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Red Hat Cloud Evangelist Touts Community Clouds

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on November 9, 2010 at 11:33 am
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The phrase of the year seems to be "cloud computing" and everyone wants a piece of the action. Plenty of businesses are singing the praises of its scalability, cost-efficiency, and nod to green computing. One nifty emerging use of cloud services is the idea of community clouds, a way for a number of groups and [...]

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Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program: What's In It For You?

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on November 3, 2010 at 8:57 am
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As I mentioned recently, The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of its Open Compliance Program, a set of training aids and tools designed to make it easier for companies to comply with open source licensing requirements. The program is backed by big-name enterprise and mobile computing companies like Adobe, IBM, Intel, and Cisco Systems, [...]

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Open Source Cloud Project Development Jumps 70 Percent

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on October 13, 2010 at 10:46 am
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Black Duck Software, a company that helps businesses automate the management of enterprise-level open source software, released the results of a recent study revealing a sharp rise in the number of open source applications for cloud computing. The number of projects under development associated with cloud computing jumped a whopping 70 percent from 2008 to [...]

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Intel Developer Forum 2010 Highlights and Wrap-up

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on October 7, 2010 at 3:08 pm
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If you couldn't make it to this year's Intel Developer Forum (IDF), you missed out on a lot of terrific information and presentations. Fortunately, you can catch up on most of it online. The three-day event drew attendees from all over the world, and here are some of the highlights of what was covered. One [...]

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Mindtouch Exec Stresses Importance of Project Documentation

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on September 7, 2010 at 10:19 am
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Let's face it, documentation is probably the least interesting part of developing an open source project. In the overcrowded software market however, good product documentation is one of its most critical components. All things being equal, an app with good support material can make the difference between whether a customer chooses your software or your [...]

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LinuxCon 2010 Wrap Up and Highlights

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on August 20, 2010 at 8:32 am
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LinuxCon North America 2010 wrapped up last week. If you weren't able to attend, here are some highlights of what you missed: Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation, used her keynote to implore developers to use free software when creating Web services. Peters says the lack of Web services based on free software [...]

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Kaltura's Michal Tsur on Open Source as a Business Strategy

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on August 9, 2010 at 9:58 am
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In the world of emerging software technology, it can sometimes seem like there's nothing new under the sun. Kaltura, who claims to be the first the first open source online video platform, recently released Kaltura Community Edition 2.0 that supports a full set of online-video mastering tools, widgets, plugins, and applications meant to be run [...]

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OSCON 2010 Wrap Up and Highlights

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on July 28, 2010 at 11:54 am
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The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2010 wrapped up a few days ago and, by all reports, it was another smashing success. Awards were handed out to individuals who've made significant contributions to the open source community, speakers came from all over the world to share their knowledge, and breakout sessions brought individuals together to [...]

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The Diaspora Project: FOSS Community Builds a Better Mousetrap

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on July 13, 2010 at 8:07 am
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When Facebook users started getting nervous about the social networking company's privacy missteps, the open source community did what it does best -- stepped up to build a better platform based on transparency and open source tools. Four college students from New York whipped together the Diaspora project, launched it publicly on April 24th, and [...]

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The Fragmentation of Linux: Two Points of View

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on July 8, 2010 at 9:05 am
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The fragmentation of Linux has become a hot topic in recent weeks as industry leaders debate how the community can collaborate to compete against single, vertical operating systems without creating an ecosystem that pulls the community in too many directions at once to be truly effective. As FOSS developers work at a fever pitch to [...]

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OSCON: The Tech Event With a Little Something for Everyone

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on June 1, 2010 at 9:53 am
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One of the most widely talked-about tech conferences every year is the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), and with good reason. The Portland, Oregon-based conference is slated for July 19-23, 2010, and pulls in attendees from all over the country with varying levels of technical experience from activists and developers to IT managers and sysadmins. [...]

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Rub Elbows With Industry Bigwigs at Next Month's Red Hat Summit & JBoss World

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on May 19, 2010 at 8:58 am
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Developers, engineers, corporate CEOs, and Red Hat community members are gathering in Boston, MA next month for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. It's a one-two punch of seminars, hands-on labs, and presentations combined with keynotes from some of the industry's biggest names. Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst is slated to speak, as [...]

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Got Apps? Get accelerated.

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on May 17, 2010 at 9:07 am
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In a move aimed at bringing more applications to the Intel AppUp Center Beta program, Intel announced the launch of Accelerator 2010 as part of its Intel Atom Developer Program Million Dollar Development Fund. The AppUp Center is a repository for applications designed specifically for Intel Atom-processor based netbooks, and Accelerator 2010 will be used [...]

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Jim Zemlin on the State Of the Linux Union at Collab Summit

By Lisa Hoover (19 posts) on May 5, 2010 at 8:13 am
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The 4th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit wrapped up recently, sending developers, core kernel developers, system vendors, and other attendees away with fresh ideas on how to overcome some of the issues facing Linux today. The Foundation's executive director, Jim Zemlin, got the summit underway with his keynote, "Welcome and State of the Linux Union." [...]

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