With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world's largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle's support didn't start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
Sun's VirtualBox 3.1 has definitely made a big hit with InfoWorld's reviewer Randall C. Kennedy, who writes, "This is one freebie that breaks the mold and delivers more, not less, than you're expecting." In Kennedy's opinion, VirtualBox 3.1 should give VMware something serious to worry about. " ... after years of wallowing in obscurity, VirtualBox, the desktop virtualisation solution of choice for FOSS groupies and similar anti-establishment types, is causing quite a ruckus," he continues.
Many don't know that there are compelling open source software solutions for Microsoft Windows. Besides the free and open source Mozilla Firefox web browser, which is widely known, used and definitely part of this top 10 list, there are many more undiscovered FOSS-on-Windows treasures and Randall Kennedy with itbusiness.ca has picked out another 9 applications he believes all Window users must have.
"Open HA Cluster on OpenSolaris," a white paper by Thorsten Frueauf, technical lead of Sun's Project Colorado, was originally presented at the Open HA Cluster Summit 2009, where the author explained how to set up a system with OpenSolaris, serving as a host for at least two VirtualBox OpenSolaris guests, and shows how to setup a two node Open HA Cluster with them by using technologies like Crossbow and COMSTAR.
CommunityOne is a three-day event that will bring together developers, students, and technologists to focus on open source innovation and implementation. Slated for June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the third annual developer conference is free the first day that promises an opening day keynote from John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems, and Dave Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems.
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