Birthdays And Anniversaries
IBM
is celebrating Autonomic Computing’s third birthday; it’s
celebrating by talking about how customers are using it in
real-world applications. Autonomic
computing is a nearly invisible enabler; often it is implemented in
the form of embedded hardware, firmware, or software that make
systems or applications faster, more reliable, or better able to
monitor, diagnose, fix, and manage themselves, saving substantial
sums of customers’ money. Since
they’re invisible, they often don’t get much credit.
IBM notes that it now has
implemented over 415 autonomic capabilities in 50 IBM hardware and
software products. It
is now reaching beyond the company, extending autonomic computing to
open standards with the submission of the Common Base Event format
to OASIS with Cisco, which will allow the exchange of standardized
problem determination data. Other
standards are on the way. An
Autonomic Computing Toolkit is available on DeveloperWorks to assist
software developers in designing and testing autonomic solutions
with a new version coming later this month.
IBM has created an architectural blueprint to help companies as they
begin to build autonomic computing systems. It is available on
ibm.com/autonomic.
Openoffice.Org Is Four
OpenOffice.org
is celebrating its fourth anniversary as the leading alternative
open source productivity suite.
Because it is used by many of the Linux distributions as part
of their desktop solution, as well as being the basis for a number
of international products, OpenOffice.org has become an important
driver in helping to create a market for open source applications.
OpenOffice.org
and StarOffice have together become the most popular office
productivity alternative, with over 40 million downloads.
It’s been widely endorsed by the European Union, the French
Ministries of the Interior and Finance, the City of Munich, and the
Singaporean Ministry of Defense.
It
is supported in 44 languages with 60 additional translations
currently in progress.
Estimates
of its use vary widely, but on a worldwide basis it is likely that
5% of the market use it today and as much as 20% of the market might
use it within five years.
For
more information about OpenOffice.org's anniversary,
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/birthday4.html
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