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SYSOPENDIGIA Contributes Source Code of Its 3G Linux Smartphone to Open-Source

HELSINKI, Finland, - SYSOPENDIGIA announced on Feb. 7 that it will contribute to open-source the software created and modified for the 3G Linux smartphone.

The SYSOPENDIGIA 3G Linux smartphone has been created using Linux operating system and other open-source software components, as well as commercially licensed Qtopia application platform and user interface from Trolltech.

"We see that the only way for the mobile industry to answer the rapidly growing need for new functionality and services is increased re-use of existing software asset. Leveraging open-source software is a good way to avoid re-implementing such functionality that is not important for differentiation," says Tuukka Turunen, Director, Special Projects from SYSOPENDIGIA.

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Will Include a New Event the Mobile Linux Conference

Conference offers in-depth technical training, strategic insights and hands-on experience in mobile Linux and open source opportunities and solutions

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events around the globe has announced that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo® will include a new event, the Mobile Linux Conference, to address the increasing penetration of Linux into the mobile handset marketplace. During the conference, attendees will receive in-depth technical training, strategic insights, and hands-on experience in mobile Linux from industry experts covering topics including application development and deployment, power management, mobile initiatives, best practices, and more. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is scheduled to take place August 4-7, 2008 at the Moscone Center.

“The timing of this conference is perfect because it compliments the success of the mobile Linux focus that LinuxWorld® 2007 featured. This conference expands on that successful content, the audience, and the sponsor participation,” said Bill Weinberg, Conference Chair and independent analyst and consultant, Linuxpundit.com. “Linux has quietly been making inroads in embedded and mobile marketplace for some time now, and it has the potential to achieve end-to-end acceptance with a unified code base and development paradigm.”

MontaVista Enables EB and NextWave Wireless to Rapidly Develop First Linux-Based WiMAX Mobile Phone

Innovative new device unveiled by NextWave at Mobile World Congress was designed and built in nine months with MontaVista Mobilinux

Barcelona, Spain - Mobile World Congress – MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization is proud to announce its participation in bringing the world's first Linux-based WiMAX™ multimedia reference design to market, which includes its MontaVista Mobilinux™ operating system (OS). This device was designed and built in only nine months by EB, a technology powerhouse with more than twenty years of experience in solutions for the automotive and wireless industries, and NextWave™ Wireless Inc., a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies.

This innovative new reference design for mobile WiMAX handsets will debut this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Mobilinux-based handset reference design is the first Linux phone to enable mobile WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), a telecommunications technology, which provides wireless voice and data at broadband speeds.

Torvalds says Linux kernel acts like an invisible magician in the background

The Linux kernel has reached a level of maturity where it mostly goes unnoticed and acts like an "invisible magician in the background", according to Linus Torvalds. The only real changes going on in the kernel are for hardware compatibility issues, updates and support.

"I think the pressure has been off the kernel for a long time now because a lot of the new features have been about userland and most people haven't even noticed the kernel. The kernel should be pretty much the invisible magician in the background -- unless things go wrong and hopefully they don't," said Torvalds.

Red Hat offers the market's first comprehensive open source platform JBoss

Raleigh NC – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced on February 14, 2008 the global availability of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, a next-generation, enterprise-class, open source solution for organizations seeking to enhance business performance by integrating people, partners, information, applications, business services and processes in the value chain.

The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is intended to maximize flexibility in a wide array of deployment scenarios from small-scale integration projects to enterprise-wide SOA integration. Built from leading open source projects such as JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform offers a light-weight footprint and simple installation for low-cost operations. These leading open source projects bring the following capabilities to the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform:

JBoss ESB - application and service integration and mediation, transformation, registry
JBoss jBPM - service orchestration, workflow (human and service)
JBoss Rules - business policy and rule management and integration, message content-based routing leveraging rules

Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year

CBR is reporting that open source use in the workplace is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Up 26% since last year, businesses are using 94 different open source tools to get the job done. "[OpenLogic's] breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the GPL, is the most common license. 62% of the packages use Apache, 27% use some variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses (since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total to more than 100%).

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