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• An SDN vulnerability forced OpenDaylight to focus on security

  Open-source software projects are often well intended, but security can take a back seat to making the code work.

• With mobile on its mind, SugarCRM looks to expand

  SugarCRM has been busy, acquiring mobile app and data analytics company Stitch earlier this month and then this week, announcing with Deutsche Telekom a customer relationship management hosting service in Germany. The moves highlight the company's progress beyond its initial position as a niche, open-source alternative for CRM.

• Networking's open at last. Now what?

  Networking hardware and spontaneous applause don't often go together, but Facebook's Omar Baldonado set off a round of cheering this week when he told engineers there's finally an open-source hardware design that they can use to build switches.

• Google killing Google Code

  Google announced today that it would henceforth stop accepting new projects for Google Code, as a prelude to shutting down the project hosting platform completely as of January of 2016.

• Docker scoops up Kitematic for smoother Mac compatibility

  The containerization trend has been growing fast and furious over the past year or so in the world of software development, and on Thursday leading player Docker announced a step toward further expansion.

• Facebook's Open Compute Project starts to crack networking

  The Open Compute Project says it has broken tight bonds between hardware and software that have kept networking closed for decades -- and it took less than two years.

• VMware sued for alleged GPL licence infractions

  A Linux kernel developer is suing VMware in Germany, alleging the company has not complied with copyright terms for using open-source software.

• Red Hat strips down for Docker

  Reacting to the surging popularity of the Docker virtualization technology, Red Hat has customized a version of its Linux distribution to run Docker containers.

• Facebook garners big gains from tighter management of open source

  Thanks to some applied discipline, Facebook is reaping greater benefits from its efforts around open source software.

• Big data vendors back open source tools

  Major players in the big data space are joining forces to support open source software with the creation of industry association, Open Data Platform (ODP).

• Google's new open-source PerfKit framework watches cloud application performance

  Google's latest foray into the open-source realm is a framework it's calling "PerfKit," which is designed to measure application performance in the cloud, the company announced Wednesday.

• To avert another Heartbleed, group narrows list of projects in need of support

  A group dedicated to averting another Heartbleed-style vulnerability is narrowing down a list of critical open source projects that will receive its funding and support.

• In Pictures: Best open source monitoring tools

  We found all four products to be capable network monitoring tools that performed well in our basic tasks such as checking for host availability and measuring bandwidth usage. Beyond the basics, there were quite a few differences in terms of features, granularity and configuration options.

• ClusterHQ: Bringing the power of containers to enterprise data

  It's no small testament to the appeal of container technology that Docker -- by far the leading contender in the field -- went from under 3 million downloads in June 2014 to 100 million last month.

• Microsoft .Net's execution engine goes open source

  Continuing with plans to open up its software development technologies, Microsoft this week open-sourced CoreCLR, the .Net execution engine in the .Net Core platform.