On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance of 34 companies seeking to turn the mobile phone into a freely open computing device.
The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
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The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
Governments are finally becoming aware of the implications of combining cloud computing practices with open source initiatives for their citizenry.
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"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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Rented applications fit beautifully with Oracle's vision of a simpler and more reliable form of computing based on the open standards of the Internet and the Java programming language.
Since its launch in 2004, it has become the preferred choice for open desktop and scale-out computing, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and consumers.
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Farther down the hall, Open Kernel and CohesiveFT, a cloud-computing firm run by Patrick Kerpan, ex-CTO of software icon Borland, run larger operations.
The company working to make that open environment possible is neither Cisco nor cloud computing leader Amazon, but rather the tiny, Aliso Viejo, Calif.
Steven VanRoekel, U.S. chief information officer, says the combined initiatives to open up federal data, along with cloud computing, have the potential to create entire new industries.
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Jackson also emphasized the need for open standards when dealing with virtualization and cloud computing, an extremely welcome step, but we can start with VMware View, allowing it to be hypervisor independent.
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For the first time in the memory of most people in the enterprise computing and software business, Oracle Open World took a back seat to a whole new industry event, this one dedicated to the Cloud and to Big Data.
Naveh says a lot of the work the company does is so-called open source intelligence, with trained experts using computing and other technological tools to connect the dots of information that are already in the public domain, particularly on the Internet and social networks.
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The SUSE Linux enterprise computing platform allows for high interoperability between open source and proprietary systems.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.
The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.
The best practice approach to systems is that they must be open, capable and affordable, enabling both process and computing innovation.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
In the next decade each crank of Moore's Law--by which computing power doubles every 18 months--will open new worlds that wireless engineers have barely begun to explore.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
Enhancing the University's philosophy of open-ended exploration, students discover new opportunities for learning with mobile computing, sharing ideas and collaborating with peers and faculty while learning how to utilize technology effectively in their academic professional and personal lives.
But it could get there as an "open services development platform, " which Stahlman believes is the future of enterprise computing.
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.
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