Sunday, 24 February 2008

2006_08_01_archive



Eclipse OHF, Health Care and Open Source

Just in time for Linux World Expo IBM came out with a press release

about IBM's involvment in the Open Source - Eclipse open Healthcare

Platform (OHF). Thanks to Eishay Smith for the info!

posted by Gerrit @ 3:42 PM 0 comments links to this post

Containers and Virtualization

The sourceforge list for containers (lxc) is being shut down since

sourceforge mailing lists are being soooo slow. The list list is at

OSDL - containers@lists.osdl.org. People working on openvz and vserver

(with the goal of getting a common solution into the mainline linux

kernel) will get postings sent to this list as well since the plan is

currently to subscribe the existing openvz and vserver mailing lists

to this list

To subscribe, please visit:

https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/containers

The end result of this discussion and relevent patches should be a

single infrastructure in the mainline kernel that is fast, reasonably

complete, and allows any other solutions to be wholly contained within

the kernel or enabled through user level applications on top of the

base kernel support. Today, all major groups are consolidating here

with some healthy debates about the details of implementation. No

outlook yet on completion but all groups are motivated to generated

patches as fast as possible.

gerrit

posted by Gerrit @ 3:36 PM 0 comments links to this post

Open Source and Health Care

Another activity I've been involved in lately is looking at Open

Source utilization in the Health Care field. I have a lot of reasons

why I think this is very interesting, which I'll try to share sometime

in the future. However, for those that may be interested, I'm in San

Francisco this week at Linux World Expo and participating on a panel

at their Health Care Day. I should have lots more information to share

about where Open Source and Health Care are headed after that event as

well. Feel free to look me up if you are in San Francisco!

posted by Gerrit @ 12:06 PM 0 comments links to this post

Virtualization

Here's one of the more accurate articles I've seen on the current

state of Linux and Hypervisors.

I spent some quality time with Simon Crosby (XenSource) and previously

with Jack Lo (VMware) as everyone was working to find a good solution

to getting Linux to directly run on a virtualized platform. Of all the

news articles on this that I've seen so far, this is definitely the

most accurate.

On a similar note, whether or not Xen is ready for prime time, we at

IBM have done a lot of testing in support of Novell's inclusion of Xen

and believe that it is ready for Enterprises to begin testing and

evaluating for use in Enterprises. It is still relatively young in

capabilities compared to System p and System z virtualization


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