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Dienstag August 07, 2007

Green and open source hardware
It's fun to work for a company that is a leader in both, eco-computing and open source. Check out Sun's latest announcement:

"This next generation of the UltraSPARC family of processors also extends its lead in eco performance, bringing Sun's revolutionary CoolThreads(TM) chip multithreading (CMT) technology to the UltraSPARC T2 processor, powered by fewer than two watts per thread. At one-tenth to one-thirtieth the power consumption of competitive offerings, the UltraSPARC T2 processor sets the gold standard for green computing and efficiency, combining the industry's lowest power consumption with double the cores, 16 times the threads, 4 times the throughput, with on-chip network and security functionality. Bottom line: The UltraSPARC T2 processor has the potential to save systems builders and their end users millions of dollars on skyrocketing power, cooling and space expense.
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Having surpassed 5,500 downloads of the OpenSPARC(TM) T1 source code, Sun is working to release source code for the UltraSPARC T2 processor to the OpenSPARC community at www.opensparc.net."

The full annoucement can be found here.
( Aug 07 2007, 05:21:36 PM CEST ) Permalink

Dell/Ubuntu systems will be shipped in Germany, France and the UK as well
According to this German article, Dell will ship their Ubuntu systems in Germany, France and the UK as well. Great news for the open source world and OpenOffice.org!
( Aug 07 2007, 03:52:26 PM CEST ) Permalink

Microsoft Project alternative going open source
As can be read here, OpenProj, an alternative to Microsoft Project is going open source. Here is a quote from the announcement:
"Projity Inc. is releasing a free desktop version of its 18-month-old Project-On-Demand service. Called OpenProj, the still-in-beta software will be bundled with several leading flavors of the Linux operating system, according to an interview last week with Projity CEO Marc O'Brien."
Considering that quite a few of the millions of users adopting OpenOffice.org will look for alternatives to Microsoft Project, these are great news!
( Aug 07 2007, 03:49:34 PM CEST ) Permalink