| Saturday, August 10, 2013: Open source has emerged as a key force in the IT industry in 2013 courtesy some significant moves from the likes of Ubuntu and Mozilla, that have taken the open source movement to the mobile space in a big way. As the movement is based on the philosophy of openness, collaboration, and supports adaptation and improvement from end users, unlike the 'closed' development approach adopted by most commercial software. The collaborative approach of open source projects ensures bugs are normally identified and fixed much more swiftly as compared to proprietary software. To honour this movement, we have come up with top 5 open source projects. Here they are... 1. Linux Linux is certainly the leader as far as the open source movement is concerned, and is now characterised by a large number of distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu and Suse Linux. Linux is compatible with most of the tools and IT skills associated with Unix and also inherits its industrial-grade security model. The project was started by Linus Torvalds, who launched the first version of the Linux kernel in 1991. Today, Linux has been widely used into a large number of systems, such as small embedded controllers to ATMs, network appliances used in smartphones as well as IBM mainframes and supercomputers. 2. Apache The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit body that consists of a community of developers handling more than 100 open source projects. Most famed of these is the Apache HTTP Server, which is also known as the Apache Web server or simply Apache. In fact, it one of most extensively used web server platform in operation across the world. Apache is responsible for the swift growth of World Wide Web, and it was usually arranged atop a version of Linux as portion of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack. Today, Apache runs a large number of other platforms, including Windows, Solaris and OS X. It is approved under the Apache Foundation's own open source licence. 3. MySQL MySQL is one of the most popular database tools used today, mainly as part of web-based applications or accessible as a hosted service via cloud computing providers. As indicated by its name, MySQL is compatible with the SQL standard for defining and querying databases, which makes it appropriate for corporate and ad hoc projects. MySQL became popular as a new component of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack that helped growth of the Internet, and is broadly used as the back-end behind tools like Wordpress. Initially owned and sponsored by Swedish firm MySQL AB, it was taken over by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle. 4. Firefox Firefox remains one of the most deployed browsers on the Internet. Mozilla's Firefox browser is, in fact, a great success story for entire open source community. The first version of firefox was introduced in 2002, after which a large number of coders came forward to help develop the browser, first dubbed as Phoenix, it emerged as an uncommon challenge to Internet Explorer browser from Microsoft. After that it showed remarkable growth, and by 2004 it had been downloaded around 100 million times. 5. Webkit A large number of people depend on this platform on an every day basis without even realising it. Webkit forms the root for several famous browser platforms, such as Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and the BlackBerry Browser. Even the use of OS X, depends largely on Webkit. Google is also intensely involved in the development of Webkit, which makes the platform one of the few areas where the frenzied opponents can work together in recent times. |  |
Top 5 Open Source Projects
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