The new Postgres database can be run across as many as 64 processor cores 

The open-source Postgres database continues to be refined for enterprises: The latest version, released Monday, contains a number of new features and performance enhancements designed to ease professional large-scale usage.

“Postgres has always done very well on personal computers, but with 9.2 it will run very nicely on very large servers,” said Tom Kincaid, director of global services for EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB, which offers a commercially supported version of Postgres, is a major contributor to the continued development of Postgres, also commonly referred to as PostgreSQL. “It will be in places it hasn’t been before.”

Full article at: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/postgres-92-invites-large-scale-enterprise-deployment-202058

The Open World Forum is the leading global summit meeting bringing together decision-makers, communities and developers to cross-fertilize open technological, economic and social initiatives, in order to build the digital future.

The event was founded in 2008 and now takes place every year in Paris. With over 160 speakers from 50 countries and an international audience of 1,400 delegates in 2010, Open World Forum has grown very fast. The Forum is governed by steering group that brings together the leading international technological communities (Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Open Source Initiative, OW2 Consortium, Qualipso Consortium), and the main Open Source software associations from the French-speaking world (Adullact, AFUL, CNLL, PLOSS, Silicon Sentier), with support from major European and French institutions (the European Commission, the Paris City authorities, and the Ile-de-France regional council and regional development agency) (Agence Régionale de Développement).

The Forum’s partners include 70% of the key global players from the IT world.

The Open World Forum is being organized this year by the Systematic competitiveness cluster based in the Paris region, supported by a Forum Committee which brings together the main partners and contributors to the OWF (AF83, Alter Way, Bull, Systematic’s Open Software Special Interest Group and Smile).

Reproduced from: http://www.openworldforum.org/en/Articles/Open-world-forum

In the last 5 years, Open Source has gained more and more interest in the domain of Embedded Systems development. It now covers most of the industry domains from Telecommunications to Aeronautics, including Space, Transportation, Energy and HealthCare

The Open Source initiatives of the Embedded Systems domain go from Operating Systems to development tools areas including middleware platforms like Genivi. Some recent initiatives even address Open Hardware for Embedded Systems. Many established communities like The Linux Foundation or the Eclipse Foundation create special programs to tackle specific issues of Embedded Systems: need for long term support, development in extended enterprise context, system certification by authorities, etc. This track gathers the main actors of OSS for Embedded Systems ecosystem who will share their insights, their feedbacks and their plans for the future.

Reproduced from: http://www.openworldforum.org/en/

Read full story: The open source problem solvers creating government 2.0 | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

Ubuntu 12.04 arrives and its great | ZDNet.

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 26, 2012, 8:40am PDT

Summary: Canonical’s latest Linux distribution, Ubuntu 12.04, is now available for your home and office and it’s a winner.

Is the Internet Becoming Less Open? | WebProNews.

Although the issue of Web openness has been mostly quiet of late, it was revived after Google’sSergey Brin made some powerful statements to the Guardian. According to him, the freedom of the Internet is under a greater threat than it has ever been before.

“I am more worried than I have been in the past,” he tells the Guardian. “It’s scary.”

Brin also indicated that he and fellow Google co-founder Larry Page would not be able to build their search engine in the current Internet environment given restrictive players such as Facebook. He categorized both Facebook and Apple as “walled gardens” saying they have too many limitations within their services.

As one can imagine, Brin’s statements have gained a considerable amount of criticism. What’s more, his perspective has also reignited the debate over what true openness actually is and what real threats lie with it.

Google announced this week that it has overhauled its internal networking infrastructure to reduce costs and increase efficiency. To do this, Google is using a software-defined, open source networking system called OpenFlow. The OpenFlow protocol allows network packets to be routed by software running on routers. By separating packet switching from network management, Google has better and easier control over their network.

Source and full article at: Google Reveals its Open Source Networking | WebProNews.

NASA chose its website as flagship for a revamp of its open government plan rolled out yesterday, and — as if to show the agency meant business — did so with a brand-new, brightly colored buzzword-catcher of a website.

There are two things worth noting here. First, NASA — which, seeing as it has its own cloud computing environment, is on the leading edge of government IT already — is making the case that accessibility through web design and funcitonality will be important for open government. Second, the agency promises a full-scale reorientation in how it chooses technology. NASA’s new goals include a transition to an open-source content management system and change its procurement process to value open-source over proprietary solutions. This in a federal government that wasn’t clear on how to treat open-source software until 2009.
Reproduced from: NASA’s Open-Source Open Government Future | TechPresident.