 Pentaho open sources 'big data' integration tools under Apache 2.0BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.0 license, the company announced Tuesday. [ComputerWorld]  Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. [ComputerWorld] HP To Commit webOS to Open Source by Fall 2012 "HP today began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform's source code available under an open source license. The company aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by September. HP also announced it is releasing version 2.0 of (...) [OSNews] HP plans September open-source release for webOS HP announced on Wednesday that it plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License, Version 2.0. [ComputerWorld] Upstart mobile OS Tizen previews code An alpha release of the source code for the Tizen open-source operating system, aimed at giving Android and iOS a run for their money, is now available for download. [ComputerWorld] NASA clears the runway for open source software The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development. Open source development, which invites the public access to view and improve software source code, is transforming the way software is created, improved and used. NASA (...) [Science daily] Jaspersoft aims its open-source analytics suite at PaaS vendors Open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Jaspersoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings. [ComputerWorld] How HP And Open Source Can Save WebOS If HP wants a future for struggling WebOS, it must invest in the platform, not abandon it, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister. 'It seems HP may only be truly committed to the platform if it can offload the cost of developing and maintaining it. Yet if that's what HP hopes to achieve by (...) [OSNews] Open-Source webOS Is Dead on Arrival The more I look at what HP has had to say about webOS; the more I think the project's as dead as a doornail. [OSNews] HP decides: webOS will be open source After more than $3bn spent or written off over the past two years, HP's chief executive Meg Whitman won't shut the webOS divison. But what future does the orphan OS have?
HP's chief executive Meg Whitman has decided to make webOS - the operating system that it acquired in buying Palm for $1.2bn (...) [The Guardian] HP puts webOS on open-source track Hewlett-Packard said it will "contribute" its webOS operating system to the open source community. [ComputerWorld] webOS To Be Released as Open Source Heck yes. This is one fine way to toast the weekend, ain't it? HP has just announced it's going to release webOS under an open source license. While the company will cease making hardware for the platform for now, it will continue development on it together with the open source community. Hey (...) [OSNews] Did HP just give webOS 'a death sentence'? As an open-source project with uncertain backing, webOS has a tough road ahead of it, analysts said on Friday. [Network World]
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