Every year InfoWorld recognizes the top free and open products for business, IT, and personal productivity for the Best of Open Source Software, the BOSSIES. Chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers, InfoWorld’s annual Best of Open Source Software awards (or Bossies, for short) celebrate the best products that open source has to [...]

Your favorite open source based monitoring and management suite just got sweeter. After working with the Xensource/Citrix team for two years, Hyperic HQ now supports Citrix Xen Server, giving customers a 360 degree view into their Xen-frastructure.
“With the rapid proliferation of virtualized infrastructure, effectively managing virtual resources is critical to successfully realizing consolidation benefits and [...]

Friday the first…Everyone, everywhere trying to claim the cloud
Dell puts dibs on “cloud computing” as trademark
Who will dominate the cloud? Allan Leinwand thinks the answer is a decade away
Mike Gunderloy writes that architecture will hold precedence over licensing laws with open source and the cloud…Tim O’Reilly provides input with his own essay

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud
The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news
451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions
Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall Street [...]

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OSCON, 2008
OSCON was a blast this year, as usual. Every year, Portland becomes ground zero for free and open source companies and advocates. Sessions, panels, BoFs and parties. Hyperic sponsored the Community Choice Awards, and Robin Miller has [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface
The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises
Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud?
More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a new leader [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS:
HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers
Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage
Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature”
A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff
Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more energy-efficient [...]

We just found out that Hyperic has been nominated for two, count ‘em two, LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Hyperic HQ is in the running for Best System Management tool and our newest product, the CloudStatus.com cloud monitor, is nominated for Best Clustering or Grid Solution.
Hopefully you’ll be able to attend the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty.
OSCON — Portland — 7/23 - 7/24
The following happened between 6:00p - 8:00p (7/23)

It was a long day. I traveled for [...]