HP seems to have a liking for big deals - remember when they spent $25 billion for Compaq? Now they're laying out almost $14 billion to acquire global services company EDS. When elephants go dancing together, the rest of us need to be cautious.
Whatever HP intends to get out of this deal (our parent site GigaOm interprets it as an investment in a cloud future), we look at it from a different point of view: what does it mean to open source?
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Alfresco Software, maker of popular open source content management software, has announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2. The new release is designed to let web site managers delve into web 2.0 features and online community building. According to the company, "Enhancements support the creation, deployment and updates of scalable Web 2.0 sites that can be developed using any web application language." Alfresco is behind interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries, and many of the new features are targeted at such sites.
Startups Funambol and Laszlo Systems have announced that Funambol's open source mobile messaging software will integrate with Laszlo's web-based communications suite, including e-mail, contacts, and calendar.....
Sun Microsystems is promising regular updates to its new OpenSolaris operating system, and costs for support are expected this week.....
Powerset, a contextual, semantic search engine that relies on open source Hadoop cluster technology for processing, has launched new search services.....
Digium's CEO discusses his company's open source balancing act in the VoIP arena.....
The Associated Press has an interesting story out today about a group of MIT students who set out to show the power of open cell phone systems. MIT professor Hal Abelson challenged them to design an application for cell phones based on Android, Google's upcoming Linux-based mobile operating system. According to the AP story: "In the process, they revealed the power of an open system like Android to shake up the mobile phone industry, where wireless companies are being pressured to loosen the control they have maintained over what devices do." Is there something to this?
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