Amid proposals to tighten requirements, the National Foundation for American Policy argues doing so could be a "serious mistake" since the H-1B temporary visas allow high-skilled foreign nationals to work in the U.S. and benefit the overall economy.

The cloud operator has released an SDK for .NET developers and an API for PowerShell developers, which puts it in competition with Windows Azure...

The Red-Hat-sponsored Gluster community is adding a forge for Gluster-related projects, which should at least increase visibility for the range of integration available in the cloud/cluster-oriented distributed filesystem...

All the way back in 2008, I wrote a post here called "Open Source and the Fall of VMware," which made the case that VMware's huge market capitalization was precariously based on one primary bet: its proprietary virtualization solutions. At the time, VMware was experienceing rocky times, but since then the company has steadily shown signs of warming up to open source.