Google plays investigator
Information about how ISPs manage their networks is famously hard to come by, but Google's on the case, reports Enterprise Networking Planet.
Pioneering Internet architect Vint Cerf, who now serves as Google's VP and chief Internet evangelist, unveiled an ambitious project called Measurement Lab, which aims to collect information about connection speeds around the world to develop a comprehensive picture of how, exactly, the Internet is working.
At the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank that is collaborating in the project, Cerf and other participants demoed the M-Lab Web site, which invites users to link up to an open source, distributed platform and test their connection.
Business Objects founder embraces open source
The founder, former chairman and chief executive of Business Objects has turned to open source for his latest venture in business intelligence (BI), reports The Register.
Bernard Liautaud has joined the board of open source ETL and data integration specialist Talend, following a round of $20 million funding by Balderton Capital. Liautaud - a pioneer in BI, who helped create an industry with his founding of Business Objects nearly 20 years ago - is a general partner of Balderton, which was an early investor in MySQL.
Talend promises to undercut proprietary and expensive data integration tools such as Informatica's PowerCenter, IBM WebSphere DataStage, and tools from Business Objects' owner SAP.
Splitting up Sun?
Sun Microsystems never fully recovered from the dot-com bust of 2001, and with the company attempting to rally around open source software, is now the time to get out of the hardware business? comments Linux Magazine.
Amid the news surrounding Sun Microsystems' announcement that they had only lost $209 million last quarter (resulting in a 20% bump in their share price) was a suggestion over at the Motely Fool that the company should not be allowed to continue in its current form.
A suggestion: Split the old Sun into two businesses and let one company figure out how to sell chips and servers, while the other gets a handle on turning a profit from open source software.
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