ideOS

Startup commercializes open-source microkernel

Richard Goering, EE Times, 18 Apr 2007

The open-source OKL4 microkernel, developed by Australia's Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology (NICTA), is about to receive a strong commercial push. Open Kernel (OK) Labs, a NICTA spinoff, is setting up its U.S. headquarters in Chicago and rolling out commercial support package.

OKL4 is an open-source microkernel aimed at embedded consumer and mobile devices. It claims fast performance and supports virtualization, real-time programming, software componentization, fine-grained protection domains, and dynamic resource partitioning

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Labels: australia, embedded-devices

Queensland govt readies open source analytics

Open source to ensure software lives on

Rodney Gedda, 28 Mar 2007

A desire to make spatial decision making more transparent has led the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water to develop a Web-based application called Spatialise, which is on the verge of being released as an open source project.

Read more from this report @ Computer World Australia

Labels: australia, business-intelligence, government