Better software 2012

A couple of years ago things were looking pretty desolate for open source. Independent players were struggling with open source revenue models that relied solely on paid support. More important, outside of app dev, the excitement that once swirled around open source seemed in short supply. Fast-forward to InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software awards aka the Bossies and you'll see how dramatically things have changed.

Open source is playing a leadership role across many categories -- not only in app dev, but also in big data, the private cloud, and NoSQL databases. The old saw of "open source doesn't innovate" has been retired forever.

Take the explosion in open source databases. You can't get much hotter than MongoDB , the document database from 10gen, which wins a Bossie for the second year in a row.

Not far behind is Couchbase , which InfoWorld's Andrew Oliver calls "a great choice for an operational data store. Another highlight: open source private cloud software and other offerings intended to take IT automation to the next level. The trial version can be used for 30 days.

Only runs on Windows 7 or above. Antony Peel. Software languages. Author Microsoft. Updated Over a year ago. Last revision More than a year ago. I guess that is exactly the purpose, to mix things up. If it continues down this path we will end up in indycar where the draw of the luck plays a too big part imho. I'm interested to see if any risks are taken in the sprint race this go around.

Advantage Merc for me if RB can't get that difference decreased. I expect anyone that crashes in the Sprint to take all-new PU components.