In this article in IDG.se Niklas Andersson comments on the continued progress of Web 2.0 and, like the O’Reilly Radar, notes how Web 2.0 is essentially a synonym for composite applications built on Open Source components. In light of that context, Niklas points out 5 Open Source companies/projects that people should be looking out for:
Friday, April 6, 2007
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I'm a little confused -- what does Open MPI have to do with Web 2.0?
I'm one of the founders of the Open MPI project. While I certainly appreciate any free publicity of our project :-), I'm a little confused because Open MPI doesn't really have anything to do with Web 2.0 (or anything web, for that matter...).
I might be missing something -- I unfortunately cannot read the original post because it's in Sweedish and I can't find a reliable Sweedish -> English translator. So any explanation would be appreciated!
Thanks.
The Web 2.0 bit is misleading in this case. What he's really talking about is web infrastructure and modern data center technologies.
OpenMPI may not be "web" per se, but it sure helps companies that wish to deploy all that hot new multi-core action. At the moment, many of those are companies building out web interfaces with a large investment in infrastructure.
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