07.16.08
Links 16/07/2008: VMs Can Replace Windows, Nokia Sidles with Android?
GNU/Linux
- Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
- Check scanners add Linux support
A vendor of digital check scanners has updated its closed Linux drivers, releasing drivers for recent versions of Red Hat and Ubuntu. Digital Check can also supply custom drivers for device makers and OEMs, it says.
- Red Hat Solutions Deliver Flexibility and Reliability for InfoCamere
- Test automation suite targets embedded Linux developers
- Offline Wikipedia for Linux
- Ubuntu Ireland goes for open source success
Phones
- Beta-testing of Linux mobiles under way
Mahesh said Nokia currently ships out about 1.2 billion handsets per year. The total market is around 1.5 billion a year which includes the top-end models such as Blackberry and the low-end basic phones. This is estimated to increase to seven billion handsets within the next five years.
- Symbian CEO Says Collaboration With Google Is Possible
Desktop Environments
- A Storm In The Computing World: Stormy Peters
The entity behind one of the most popular desktop interface, GNOME Foundation is doing the right thing at the right time. The foundation has hired Stormy Peters as the executive director. We reached out to Stormy and conducted an e-mailed interview to understand how is she planning to take the computing world by ’storm’. Here is the complete interaction with Stormy.
- Mandriva 2008 Spring KDE 4.1 RC1 packages available
F/OSS
- Brand Labs Releases Latest Volusion Plugin, RapidCart, Under GNU LGPL
- Hamsterdb: a Small, Fast Database That Won’t Weigh You Down [Dual with GPL]
- Optaros Creates Open Source User Interface Framework [GPLv3]
- Enterprise 2.0 Platform Highlights Widgets, Wikis
- Open Source Moodle Heads to the Amazon Cloud
- Web Hosting Provider, Amazon Web Services, Integrates SnapLogic Open Source
- 2008 Open Source CMS Award: Nominations now being taken!
- NTT America and Internet Systems Consortium Advance IPv6 for Open Source Community and General Public
- Sonatype Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer With Seat on Board of Directors
- BroadSoft and Fonality Team Up to Offer Managed IP PBX for Service Providers
- Medsphere and WebReach Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Open Source Electronic Health Record
- IONA and Chariot Solutions Accelerate Adoption of Enterprise Open Source
- Apple’s walled garden & the meaning of Open Source
- AbiWord: A Scalpel, Not a Chain Saw
- Fee or Free?
Leftovers
- grep is a beautiful tool
- YouTube gadget soon scorned on Capitol Hill?
- [Seattle] Newspaper site spreads Virus
- Intel faces another EU probe
- EU dumps more anti-trust charges on Intel
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.