The latest release of MongoDB 2.4 expands the NoSQL database's capabilities with the addition of text search.

One of the key elements that helps to enable open source software applications to gain broader enterprise usage is the availability of commercial support options. In the case of the open source MongoDB NoSQL database, that commercial support is now coming from project backer 10gen.

Sun has been getting serious about opening up its software for a few years now. OpenSolaris, an open source Unix operating system like Linux and BSD, released in May, is its latest foray into the open source arena. I found OpenSolaris to be a production-ready OS that works equally well on desktops and servers.

The default installation of MongoDB doesn't enable authentication which is essentials for securing contents. The articles describes step by step commands to create a replica-set in MongoDB using multiple ec2 instances having authentication enabled as well as proper security for member server of replica-set.

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.

Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.

The first public release of the BIND 10 open source DNS server is now out. But don't rush to update your servers just yet -- it's still years away from being ready for production use

IT staff and developers often overlook non-technical considerations that are critical when running open source on a production system.

KDE 4.0 is very exciting, though not yet production ready, and that shows with this weeks' release of the first beta.

Version 2.6 of LLVM, the Low-Level Virtual Machine, has been released.