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Last week, OStatic published a story on an unsung open source cloud computing infrastructure effort from U.C. Santa Barbara called Eucalyptus. The lead developer, Rich Wolski, now confirms that hours after the post went up, all members of the team behind Eucalyptus were contacted by Facebook recruiters--except Rich....
Microsoft and Nokia apparently aren't worried about open source software platforms for phones and mobile devices.....
Linux--a new user's review.....
Free extensions and templates for OpenOffice.....
Recently, I got the opportunity to pose a few questions to key people involved with open source efforts at Microsoft, including Sam Ramji (the recently promoted head of Microsoft's open source and Linux efforts), Ori Amiga (Microsoft Group Product Manager, Live Developer Platform), and Susan Hauser (General Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing). They offered up some thought-provoking input on what open source needs, Novell, China, Live Mesh, and other topics. I thank them for taking the time, and please read on for their comments.
Check in with Chris DiBona, Google's open source chief, on how committed Google is to OSS, and more.....
Google announces OpenSocial 0.8.....
Bill Gates discussed Windows 7 at the D conference. It has a multi-touch interface--video and photos found here.....
Ruby on Rails upgrade may arrive this weekend.....
Eighteen universities say they are turning to Groundwork Open Source's network management software.....
Funambol, maker of open source messaging software, has a new version of its BlackBerry push e-mail and PIM sync app.....
The rumors were true: Microsoft is opening up its Office 2007 suite of productivity applications to full support for other formats, including Open Document Format (ODF). Earlier this year, Microsoft was under fire for pushing its own Open Office XML set of formats as an international standard, when many people in the open source community wanted support for the more strictly open ODF standard. Microsoft officials have now also said that Office will fully support PDF format and XML Paper Specification (XPS). The new formats will arrive in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, early next year, and some translators will arrive before then.
Fedora 9, the community-driven Linux distribution from Red Hat is out. Bruce Byfield has some interesting thoughts on it.....
Openbravo, developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point-of-Sale (PoS) solutions has received $12 million of second round funding.....
Ingres OpenROAD, the companyοΎs platform for rapid application development, is now open source.....
InformationWeek has an interesting interview with Microsoft's open source chief Sam Ramji.....
Open-Xchange and Parallels are integrating Open-Xchange open source e-mail and collaboration software with Parallels.....
By Aaron Huslage
Multitouch display technology has been at the center of many a geek's attention since the release of the iPhone almost a year ago. The ability to combine computer vision, projector display technology and the electronics to control it all had been the provenance of big companies and university research labs. Now Stefan Hechenberger and Addie Wagenknecht of New York based NOR_/D have put together an open source alternative called Cubit. This is worth taking a gander at.
