Open source in Amazon cloud
StarPound Technologies has reportedly released its Core open source platform in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, according to TMCnet.
Core is a business process modelling application that integrates voice and data in one application.
Supporting voice and data interactions, the StarPound platform executes converged, composite applications, and an application that uses the platform can be initiated by a Web link, by an incoming phone call or e-mail, or by an incoming Web service request.
Building on Ubuntu
Spain-based eBox Technologies has released version 1.0 of its Ubuntu Linux-based eBox server distribution, according to DesktopLinux.
The open source eBox 1.0 features LDAP, DHCP, NTP, DNS, and e-mail servers and provides a new development framework for building add-on modules, says the company.
Aimed primarily at small and medium enterprises, but also supporting home and enterprise users, eBox combines numerous open source packages under an umbrella framework that is said to ease network management.
Software may cost $387bn
Black Duck Software, a Waltham-based company with the largest database of open source software, has estimated the total cost of full open source software development at $387 billion, reports Mass High Tech.
The cost projection stems from an announcement made in a company analysis called, “Estimating the cost to reproduce OSS.”
The $387 billion estimate includes the reproduction of more than 200 000 open source software projects online, with more than 4.9 billion lines of code.
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