Philippines hosts open source conference

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) plans to create a national body to promote the adoption of open source technologies, says Inquirer.net.

The Philippines is scheduled to host a regional open source conference next month, which will gather representatives from 21 countries to sign an agreement.

The said agreement will push for co-operation among these countries in the area of open source and is expected to benefit emerging markets like the Philippines.

Simplexo has unveiled an open source enterprise search engine, joining a small but growing group of vendors hoping to crack the crowded technology space through that development model, says PC World.

Simplexo joins open source offerings from the likes of Tesuji and Lemur Consulting, as well as scores of proprietary tools, using a hybrid approach to searching content.

It places unstructured data, such as Web pages and word documents, into an index, but directly queries structured data sources like databases and enterprise applications, according to a report by Rob Hailstone of the UK analyst firm Butler Group.

Sun Microsystems has expanded its suite of virtualisation tools with a free server product and updated management console, reports VNUnet.

The new products add to its existing software for standalone virtual machines and virtual desktop infrastructure. It is compatible with DTMF WS-Man standards.

The xVM server is a bare-metal hypervisor for Intel and Sparc-based servers that can host Windows, Linux and Solaris guest machines.