Open Source Zone

Hadoop in  Practice author Alex Holmes explains how you can use the Sqoop relational database import / export system with Hadoop.

You may think that your organization is safe from using open source improperly because you are buying proprietary software. However, if your software supplier unknowingly incorporated open source into its product, your organization may face unexpected legal and financial consequences. Read on to learn about tools that are available to protect you from open source surprises.

A pair of new open source tools, RailsInstaller and App Scrolls, make it easier to get started with Rails and to get Rails apps properly deployed.

You can't put Node.js code into production without testing it, but where are all the testing tools? Enter Whiskey from Rackspace.