Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the “burger cloud” among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments.
James Weir, UShareSoft CTO, answered few questions about their offer and open source strategy.
Florian Mueller – the EU campaigner involved in the software patents war – a couple of months ago talking about the Sun-MySQL merger called IBM a “false friend of open source”, but when I asked for more details he told me to wait.
Today he pointed me to his new foss patents blog entry reporting IBM has concerns about unauthorized use of proprietary IBM information by TurboHercules contributors.
Roger Bowler – CEO of TurboHercules, the company behind the mainframe emulator distributed under the Q Public license – asked IBM to consider adding such intellectual property to the IBM “non-assertion†pledge to the open source community.
Is there any chance that IBM would consider that?
Read more at The Register and at Dana Blankenhorn’s blog.
Actually I didn’t take any position yet, though I believe that posing questions is legitimate and it doesn’t imply a judgment, as eloquently explained Simon Phipps.
The deadline for the call of proposals of the third Open World Forum – to be held in Paris, 30 September – 1 October 2010, plus an optional Geek Day on 2 October – has been extended from March 30 to April 15.
GNOME is raising funds for a system administrator, and just yesterday a ruler has been added to the top of various GNOME websites to show people progress. Stormy Peters reported that on the first day almost $1,000 in donations came from individual donors, and $5,000 from a company.
The goal tracking ruler added by Lucas Rocha and others is a nice and effective tool. Kudos to the GNOME Marketing team.
Maybe others like the Eclipse foundation will follow the GNOME example, hope at PLIO will consider that at some point.
Business International, the Italian leading conference company, is organizing the 1st Cloud Computing and Virtualization Strategies that will take place in Milan on the 26th of March at the Enterprise Hotel.
The conference will look at how, when, and where computing opportunities can be taken advantage of, providing IT decision makers and CIOs with useful information and guidance. Round-tables will cover how the cloud can benefit security, virtualization and cloud computing, cloud computing and mobile platforms.
See you there!
The Italian revenue agency has just released the list of ONLUS and volunteer organizations that are eligible for tax payers’ donations (5 per mille), and PLIO, the Italian OpenOffice.org association born in 2007 ,is among them!
PLIO has received 171 preferences, and it is in the first third of the list order by amount desc. The total amount of donations is 5.519,72 euros.
Thank you all for your donations!
The Impact of Virtualization Technology on Open Source License Obligations – This Black Duck Webinar will provide an overview of pertinent virtualization technologies, how they work, the issues they raise and perspective on how to address them.
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 2 pm EDT
SAP – Alfresco Integration for the Public Sector – Presentation and demo integrating Alfresco with SAP based on the CTAC Connector in the public sector.
March 31 2010 11am EST.
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BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync? – Differently from what expected the BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include the ability to work with OpenOffice presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
Many books on Android are available today, but “Android – Guida per lo sviluppatore” (eng. developers’ guide) is the first Italian book covering the open source Java-based mobile platform developed by Google.
The author, Massimo Carli, prepares the reader to deal with this open source mobile platform in a step-by-step fashion, providing also easy to understand code examples.
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