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Cleversafe Goes Open Source With its Storage Software

Cleversafe, which specializes in dispersed storage technology, has traditionally relied on proprietary software for its technology solution. Unlike mirroring stored data, or using RAID, dispersed storage calls for slicing stored data and spreading it out among servers, reassembling it as needed. The benefit is reduced storage overhead. Now, the company has released the next generation of its software as open source, and is calling for software developers to create their own solutions for dispersed storage. For those keeping an eye on fast-growing storage and archive repositories, this could lead to some meaningful cost reductions.


Cisco Buying Jabber--The Open Source Connection

As GigaOm notes today, Cisco is buying instant messaging service Jabber for an undisclosed amount. Many of the news stories on this are missing the open source connection--or the almost open source connection. As Stacey notes in the GigaOm story, Jabber is based on Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the same protocol being used by several open-source IM implementations. Matt Asay also does a nice job of clarifying that Jabber uses open technologies, but has never been 100 percent open source. Find more at GigaOm.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

SGI relicenses OpenGL--the heart of 3D acceleration: A huge gift to the free software community .....

VMware takes on Microsoft, Cisco with VDC-OS--see our previous analysis here, and a help wanted ad from VMware for an open source/Linux expert......

Zarafa has open sourced its respected Exchange server replacement--works with major Linux distros, and native syncing reportedly works well with the iPhone.....

Mandriva unveils Linux for netbooks.....

Firefox 3.1 beta release schedule delayed.....



Canonical Opens Codec Sales and Potential Can of Worms

This week, Canonical opened sales of legal multimedia codecs and DVD playback software to all Ubuntu users, regardless of whether the distribution was pre-installed on a purchased system or downloaded gratis from an Ubuntu mirror.

Fluendo handles the bulk of the codecs using the GStreamer framework. CyberLink offers DVD playback through a Linux version of its PowerDVD software.

It feels the most positive word that can be applied to this announcement is bittersweet. There are many more colorfully negative words that are applicable, as well.



MindTouch Teams Up With SnapLogic for CRM Services

Open source collaboration platform vendor, MindTouch, announced a partnership this week with SaaS integration company SnapLogic to deliver Deki for CRM to customers who want to enhance the capabilities of customer relationship management (CRM) software like Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.



Google's Chrome Browser isn't Going Unnoticed

Even though it's only available in a Windows version so far, Google's open source Chrome browser is reaching a lot of people, according to data from Nielsen Online. Nielsen reports that between Sep. 1st and Sep. 7th, more than 1.9 million unique visitors in the U.S. visited the Thank You page for the Chrome browser. The data lines up with similar findings from NetApplications, which has found that Chrome has about one percent of browser share--ahead of Opera. Which browser does Chrome not appear to be taking share from, though? That would be Safari.


Yuguu Offers Linux and Flash Clients for Online Meetings

A while back, on our sister blog WebWorkerDaily, I covered Yuguuu, which is a very useful online meeting and collaboration tool that is offered for free. Now, as a follow-up post reports, Yuguu has launched Linux and Flash clients. There are supported clients for Suse, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Yuguu is a very easy and efficient way to collaborate and meet online. Check out more from WebWorkerDaily.


Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition

Have you been frustrated with speech recognition software in the past? I've used the top proprietary products, such as IBM's ViaVoice and Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past. I've found limited good uses for them, but they're not entirely accurate, and they're reasonably expensive. Carnegie-Mellon University developed a free offering called Sphinx, which may be a good alternative for many people, and it's now offered under a BSD license.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Are open source violations lurking in your code?.....

Who runs Ubuntu? The list keeps growing.....

12 mthys about free and open source software.....

Microsoft claims it's reaching out to open source.....



OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software

OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are utilitarian, complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of modern life, used daily by individuals and businesses all over the world.

It isn't that people take them for granted. People don't consider them much at all. It has been a long time since I've had any feelings whatsoever about an office suite. There have been developments in office software that have been innovative, such as online document creation. And though useful, I still can't honestly say that I've been enthusiastic about (or, since Clippy, repulsed by) any office application.



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