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Xebia, an IT company working extensively on enterprise Java technology and agile software development, has been betting big on open source technology like JBoss in recent times. Anurag Shrivastava, head of Xebia India operations, talks to Vanisha Joseph about open source being the next big thing to watch out for by any developer/IT company.

Two months after the launch of Fedora 12, we spoke to Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat, about how this release has been received by the community, and what is in store for the next. Though it started as a technical discussion on what Fedora 12 offers IT admins and developers, it graduated into a more serious conversation on the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the distinction (if any) between commercial and community Linux.

By targeting students from distant shores, a training and certification institution has created a lucrative offshore travel-cum-training certification business that could be the forerunner of a BPO-scale industry!

Here’s how to start using Django for Web application development.

Virtualisation continues to be a buzzword. The idea isn’t new in itself; IBM mainframes have always had to have a hypervisor. It’s in the news now because even simple desktops can now act as virtual machine hosts. A lot of possibilities have opened up as a result. Let’s take a brief tour of what virtualisation means, in its classic sense, and look at why open source virtualisation is going to win.

In the second part of the series on OpenLDAP, we'll cover rootdn password encryption with slappasswd, understand slapd.conf file structure, disable anonymous directory reads,...

For more on Google's association with open source, here's the story.

Take a look at five specific open source tools that are used frequently in many AAA titles.

Shrinking budgets and performance-hungry business applications are making organisations sway the open source way when choosing database management systems. EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, is scoring consecutive goals on reliability, performance, scalability and cost comparisons against both its open source and proprietary opponents.