Disclaimer for anyone who doesn’t know, I’m the CEO of JumpBox.
After a quiet couple months, things are really cracking now with JumpBox. We had some great stuff queued up that took a lot longer to get out than I expected. The funny thing is that the product was ready, but it took a while to […]
Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
Just wanted to post a quick note to say I’m in Portland this week for the O’Reilly Open Source convention thru Thursday and will be at the TechCrunch party in San Jose Friday night. If you’re going to be at either of those events I’d love to meet some new people while we’re here. I […]
Trac is a great application to track software development projects, but anyone who’s tried to install it knows it can be a real pain at times. This is especially true if you want to get it working on Windows or Mac OS X. Because there’s such obvious pain here, we decided to give it the […]
Ingres Corporation has released a software/virtual appliance that bundles their relational database server with rPath Linux to make deployment much simpler.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Ingres Corporation, the leading business open source database company, today announced the general availability of Ingres Icebreaker(TM), the first fully integrated enterprise-class database and operating system that dramatically […]
From Network World Virtual appliance make OS … irrelevant?
Virtual appliances give vendors the ability to pre-tune and configure the operating system with the minimal set of components needed to run the application. The end result: a more secure, smaller and better tuned operating system and an application installation experience that is as smooth as possible.
If […]
rPath has announced that they’re now supporting the creation of Xen virtual appliances using rBuilder and rBuilder Online. This included updating many of the existing appliances for use with Xen.
Reflecting the strong community demand for appliances on the Xen hypervisor, rPath has made many of the most popular projects on rBuilder Online available for download […]
CRMBuyer has published an interesting article about the changing environment for software licensing. One of the things that’s changing in that environment is the growing use of virtualization technology.
And virtualization will become an issue soon, as it moves out of the test and development phase and into production environments. Lechner says 54 percent of IBM’s […]
WhatPC has a nice article looking at how to build a Network Attached Storage device using the FreeNAS VMWare virtual appliance running under VMWare player.
Loading and running a virtual appliance this way is easy. Rather than buy a custom Nas appliance, a virtual implementation can be downloaded and set to work on a redundant Windows […]
Microsoft has announced the availabily of its virtual machine hard drive specification under the terms of their Open Specification Promise which says.
Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation to the extent it conforms to a Covered Specification (“Covered […]
Sun is doing a lot of interesting work with Solaris to provide options for partitioning servers. This article on ZDnet provides a brief overview of a number of new technologies they’ll be introducing over the next year or so.
First up is a new virtualization mechanism for UltraSparc T1 based systems.
The technology, called logical domains, or […]
Loading ...