Open source gets MS certification

SilverStripe CMS is the first open source Web application to achieve 'Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2' status, states i-Programmer.

Silverstripe is an open source project that offers frameworks for Web developers as well as CMS for Web site editors.

Commenting on gaining Microsoft certification, Silvrstripe's co-founder, Sigurd Magnusson points out on the Silverstripe.org blog: “This is notable because Microsoft has certified a very small number of Web applications, and we are the first ever open source Web-application to attain certification.”

Provider of open source solutions, Red Hat, has expanded its outreach to introduce open source into the computer science curriculum at colleges and universities, writes TMCNet.

The company is a member of Teaching OpenSource community and acts as its catalyst. It sponsors Professors' Open Source Summer Experience workshops.

“We're continuing to add value to the higher education system and helping prepare professors and universities to develop coursework that will produce graduates with the skill sets necessary to compete in today's challenging and demanding work environments,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO at Red Hat, in a press release.

Novell officially announced the Baracus open project as a new effort to provide a network-based boot manager for provisioning and managing systems, says Internet.com.

Baracus includes remote boot, provisioning and power management as well as the ability to image, clone and backup systems. With Baracus, Novell is aiming to provide expanded remote boot capabilities beyond what is currently available in open source by way of the Etherboot project and its related technologies.

"Baracus leverages etherboot/gpxe as a network-aware BIOS bootloader to chain a managed payload," says Daniel Westervelt, principal architect of the Baracus project. "Legacy pxe had become too limiting in its ability to scale and provide higher level networking functions necessary for modern data centre deployments."