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By Nate D'Amico

For the Eclipse lovers out there, IBM has another free toy for you to experiment with. It's geared toward web application development, and is dubbed Project Zero. With Project Zero, IBM hopes to entice Java, PHP, and Groovy developers to use its platform for creating next generation web applications. Among the interesting aspects of Project Zero, developers are encouraged to compile PHP into Java classes to have it run in the same Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as the rest of Project Zero's Java code. The project leverages communities in ways that open sourcers will recognize.

By Raj Bala

Trends in data storage and server computing are changing rapidly, and there are some unexpected shakeups to come, with open source implications. Hardware continues to get cheaper. Bandwidth isn?t quite free yet, but it?s hardly expensive. High-quality open source software now abounds in enterprise data centers, but grid computing solutions remain half-baked and hardly commoditized.

These trends are all behind why I think Yahoo! and EMC are set for a future technology collision, given their respective philosophies--and open source is too.

By Aaron Huslage

The world of open source VoIP platforms has been dominated by the Asterisk PBX and the products that surround it. While no one has perfect market share numbers for this beast, it has more than likely over 95 percent of the open source share and some significant portion of IP PBXs installed around the world. As Om Malik wrote in late 2007, Asterisk has been downloaded over 1 million times.

Now, another player could give Asterisk a run for its money. Announced at the Emerging Telephony conference in 2006, Freeswitch is quietly growing in popularity and stability.