Achievements of Open-Source Products in 2009
Open Source
From the launch of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, to the continued improvements in Firefox, open source products achieved a lot in 2009. While established products like OpenOffice continued to flourish, we saw the emergence of new and promising contenders like Chrome OS. Here is a highlight on what open source community, as a whole achieved this year:
Drupal
Drupal
The Drupal content management system runs Whitehouse.gov and dozens of other high-profile Web sites. Acquia, a startup in charge of commercializing Drupal, has received more than $18 million in venture capital to date, which is testimony the success of Drupal.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
In October, Canonical released Ubuntu 9.10, code-named “Karmic Koala,” which enables companies to build their own cloud computing environments on their own servers and hardware. As it has done with desktop and server Linux, Canonical aims to take a pioneering role in cloud computing, and this release is the first step in that direction.
Git
Git
Git, a distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel, has very quickly entered the mainstream since its creation less than 3 years ago. The documentation that comes with Git describes it as “a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set”.
SUSE Studio
SUSE Studio
Novell launched Suse Studio in July as part of its Suse Appliance Program. So far, Linux users and developers are impressed with what Suse Studio brings to them, in terms of simplicity and functionality.
Chrome OS
Chrome OS
Unveiled in July, Chrome OS, an open-source system that initially will be targeted at netbooks, is Google’s bid to offer a fast, lightweight and secure way to find information online. Google released Chrome OS to open source in November and revealed its intention to partner with as-yet-unknown hardware vendors to bring Chrome OS-powered netbooks to market in time for next year’s holiday season.
OpenOffice
Open Office
In October, OpenOffice.org proudly declared that more than 100 million visitors had clicked on the Web site’s ‘Download OpenOffice.org’ button since version 3.0 of the software was released in October 2008. OpenOffice is being adopted by more and more users because of its increased interoperability with Microsoft Office.
Firefox
Firefox
Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser passed the one billion download. No need to talk about its speed and performance, which always continues to be better.
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In 2009 Open Source programs/softwares definitely made alot of huge improvements and leaps forward, I would also add WordPress to that list, although wordpress has been around for a while now, I still feel like it made alot of huge steps forward in 2009 which alot of new version releases, each time better and better :D
Till then,
Jean
Agree totally, wordpress has progressed a lot especially in last couple of years.
erm, the news is sql is in danger inspite of being the best and most use open source project. Imagine life without mysql :|
Yes it is, all thanks to Oracle overtaking Sun MIcrosystems. But open source developers around the world are trying their best to save it. They have started a petition, which you can support by signing. You can read more about it here: http://techie-buzz.com/opensource/help-mysql-help…
Enjoyed your article Anurag,
I use Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice, Google Chrome extensively.