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Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source platforms and middleware

InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source operating platforms and middleware of 2010

By Doug Dineley, James R. Borck, Paul Venezia, Peter Wayner, High Mobley | InfoWorld

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Bossies 2010: Platforms and middleware
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Bossie 2010 winner: Android
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Bossie 2010 winner: Nginx
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Bossie 2010 winner: VirtualBox
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Bossie 2010 winner: KVM
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Bossie 2010 winner: OpenVZ
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Bossie 2010 winner: WSO2 Carbon
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Bossie 2010 winner: Intalio BPM
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Bossie 2010 winner: Talend
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Bossie 2010 winner: Cassandra
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Bossie 2010 winner: Infobright
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Bossie 2010 winner: KVM

KVM is a free, open source, bare-metal virtualization platform for Linux on x86-64 hardware with Intel VT or AMD-V virtualization extensions. KVM combines a slim footprint and support for a ridiculous number of guest operating systems. Because the KVM module resides natively in the Linux kernel, no mods or patches are required, as with Xen. Plus, KVM reaps the benefits of the underlying Linux platform's APIs, allowing developers to build out custom monitoring and management tools. Add to KVM the SPICE-driven VDI components available from Fedora (and commercially from Red Hat), and you have a scalable virtual desktop experience that's darn near indistinguishable from an actual PC. Meanwhile, the oVirt project is just getting to work on the tools needed to manage large virtual server environments...

License: Parts under GPL v2, LGPL v2, GPL, and LGPL

The Bossies 2010 index:

Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source software of the year
Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source applications
Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source application development software
Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source platforms and middleware
Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source networking software

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Tags: Server Virtualization, Application Servers, Data Integration, Virtual Desktop, DBMS, OLAP, Enterprise Application Integration

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