Recent OSS and the Future of IT Resources

Introduction: “The New Normal”

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:10

2008 and 2009 have been years of dramatic changes in the global economy.: Technology, services and all areas of production have been affected. .

Taking Multicore Programming into the Bazaar

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:04

Anwar Ghuloum (a Principal Engineer with Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab) wrote at Intel's blog about “Taking Multicore Programming into the Bazaar: An Argument for Open Source tools”.

It summarises why the OSS development model has been and will continue being successful. It simply works better in most cases:

Open Source Virtual Worlds

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:03

Already more than ten years old, Second Life has been the leader of establishing Virtual Worlds. Membership is free, but the Second Life Grid is written on proprietary software from Linden Labs.

LiMo Foundation: 80% of mobile platforms will be OSS by 2013

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:03

From the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation website: “LiMo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. . The members of the Foundation are major global players in the telecommunications industry: operators, vendors, chip manufacturers, i.e. NEC, Vodafone, Samsung, LG, Verizon, Telefonica, Wind River, AMD, ARM, Huawei, Motorola, Ericsson and many more.

Linux on Mobile

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:02

Mobile computing is more than a trend: it is a reality that most of us are unaware of because it is inside the multiple devices that we use daily . There has been a rapid and growing adoption of OSS for mobile platforms.

Ubuntu planning move to the cloud

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:01

An article from CNET News comments that by April 2009 Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) will start to offer technology “to help enterprise customers build their own cloud-computing setups. But unlike most of the better-known players in this nascent market, the twist here is that the technology will be supplied by an open-source shop”.

The Netbook Effect: how cheap little laptops hit the big time

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:01

Article from Wired magazine that tells the very recent story of commercial netbooks, from Asustek It gives a comparative analysis of how OSS fits in the market battle for the segment. Part of the article focuses on how OSS can change the model in the Education industry: .

Netbooks, cellphone chips and OSS will change the PC market forever?

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:00

“Netbooks”, which with a combination of low cost cellphone type chips, Cloud Computing and Open Source Software, are changing the PC industry. According to the New York Times (April 2009) Microsoft posted for the first time in their history a decline sales of the PC version of Windows. The article and others explain why netbooks are the disruption that is coming “from the bottom and forever change the market”.

The battle: Microsoft versus Open Source Software

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 11:59

“To compete against OSS, Microsoft must target a process, not a company”.

This quote is from “The Halloween Documents” which were written internally in Microsoft as early as 1998 and generated a discussion with the author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar. At the beginning it was like a war between Good and Evil with both parties assuming the “Good side”.

OSBC 2009: The Future of Open Source

posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 - 11:58

At the 2009's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) was presented the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual "Future of Open Source" survey. It brings to light a variety of significant issues and topics surrounding OSS, such as the impact of the economic recession, key market drivers, and predictions regarding the types of companies that will drive the next wave of commercial open source success.

Highlights:

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