Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports.
Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code.
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