Wolski is quick to stress that Eucalyptus Systems is an open source company; there is no intention to start charging for software that is freely available for download today, and this will be actively maintained and developed moving forward. A point release is expected ‘in about a week...

I recently came home from three months in Antarctica. As a software engineer, Antarctica was the last place I expected to be. I was there as part of the ANDRILL project, a multinational collaboration comprised of scientists, educators, students, technicians, drillers, and support staff...

On June 26, 2006 the Eclipse Foundation announced the availability of new releases of 10 Open Source projects. This simultaneous release event, named Callisto, garnered a lot of attention for the 10 projects involved. But, meanwhile, on the same day and without much fanfare, not even a...

Surely with its army of kernel hackers and proofreaders, the Linux kernel should be close to perfect. The reality is that most kernel hackers focus on only a piece of the kernel - VM, disk I/O, a particular driver, or some part of the network stack - and mistakes are made through overs...

Callisto is the simultaneous release of 10 major Eclipse projects at the same time. An important thing to note about Callisto is that even though it's the simultaneous release of 10 projects, it doesn't mean these projects are unified. Each one remains a separate Open Source project op...

Software development is typically carried out in an opaque environment where progress can be slow and (too often) the resulting build processes lack visibility, transparency, and collaboration. The Apache Software Foundation's Maven project approaches the problem of building software b...