Linux creator Linus Torvalds was named 2012 Millennium Technology Prize laureate, along with stem cell pioneer Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Japan.

As hospitals and healthcare institutions begin to move from paper-based to electronic medical records (EMR), developing countries in Asia have found a way to catch up with the digital trend: open source software.

HP has announced recently it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.

Make free and open source software a priority, a university professor urged Philippine government executives at a forum held in Manila recently to mark the 40th anniversary of the National Computer Center.

A year of significant growth in the number of open source projects established to develop healthcare applications was led by practice management and electronic records management projects, according to an analysis by Black Duck Software, global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software.

RiverMuse, the first commercial open source company of its kind in the event and fault management sector, is on course to set a new industry benchmark.

Harish Pillay, the open source evangelist at Red Hat, is never shy to express his opinion. In this exclusive interview, he shares 5 reasons why open source is the ideal platform/strategy for most government infrastructure implementation projects.

Organizations are starting to evaluate open source software (OSS) as a viable alternative while they are trying to find ways to reduce their operational expenses.  This is according to IDC's latest studies, "Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Open Sour

The Ministry of Education (MOE), together with NCS Pte Ltd and Google are working together to make available the Google Apps (Education version) suite of online communications and collaboration tools to more than 30,000 teachers and staff in over 350 schools in Singapore by the end of 2009.

What is the implications of cloud computing in the government or public sector. Harish Pillay, open source evangelist for Red Hat, discusses the potential impact of cloud computing on government data centers.