Facebook open sourced its SQL query engine, Red Hat’s Fedora project turned ten and there’s a new bug bounty program in town! Plus, new announcements from the OpenStack Summit and open source news from the founder of the secure email service Lavabit are highlighted in this week’s Wrap Up:
- GigaOM’s Derrick Harris reported on Presto, Facebook’s newly open sourced SQL-on-Hadoop query engine that’s said to be 10 times faster than Hive: “Facebook Open Sources its SQL-on-Hadoop Engine, and the Web Rejoices.”
- In the ZDNet article, “Fedora, Red Hat’s Community Linux, Turns 10,” SJVN reflected on the rocky start the project had with Linux users and how it’s become one of the most popular Linux communities today. [Watch Red Hat’s video celebrating Fedora’s ten years]
- Details around the new Microsoft and Facebook sponsored bug bounty program, covering security issues found in key open source software platforms, are included in Lucian Constantin’s PCWorld article, “New Bug Bounty Program Wants to Make the Whole Internet Safer.”
- All the big announcements by Cisco, SolidFire, Brocade and more at this week’s OpenStack Summit were covered by Maria Deutcher in the SiliconANGLE article, “Top Vendors Flex Cloud Muscle at OpenStack Summit.” [Check out the new OpenStack infographic]
- On The Next Web, Ben Woods shared comments by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at this week’s Financial Times Innovate conference on how the cloud and OSS have transformed IT departments and created greater opportunities for tech start-ups: “Amazon CTO: Open Source Software and the Cloud Allows Startups to Focus on Innovation.”
- The founder of Lavabit is attempting to open source the former email provider’s encryption tools. The new Kickstarter project called the Dark Mail Initiative has been created to help finance these efforts and was the topic of Natasha Lomas’ TechCrunch article, “Lavabit Founder Takes To Kickstarter To Open Source A New End-To-End Encryption Messaging Protocol.”
- The VARS Guy shared the top five open source platforms he believes will shape the technology market over the next few years: “5 Open Source Platforms That Will Define 2014.”
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