The interviews of the speakers at the Profoss event on "OpenOffice.org in the enterprise" have been published.

Read the interviews of

• Eric Descamps, Project manager at the belgian Post
• Machtelt Garrels, co-founder of OpenDoc Society Belgium,
• Roberto Galoppini

Video interviews of Profoss speakers have been published on Virtualization.com. Here are links to the interviews of Tarry Singh , John Abbott , Werner Fischer , Frank Kohler and Matt Rechenburg

Those interviews have been recorded on the evening of the first day of the virtualisation event on 22 and 23 january 2008.

The 451 Group had a press release stating that "Thanks to open source projects, the hypervisor – the software layer that enables physical machines to run multiple virtual machines – has become a commodity. As a result, hypervisor vendors have become virtualization management vendors and are now selling virtualization administration". In one year, their list of private companies in the category "VM management" has grown from 6 companies to 50!

It's been years that we hear software will become a commodity, with Sun clearly following that direction. Virtualisation is a clear example of that trend, with the sector's current leader VMWare well aware of this, and offering free downloads of its basic solutions. But Free and Open Source solutions are moving also, as illustrated by Open QRM (which will be represented by its project manager at the Virtualisation event organised by Profoss, where a session titled "The future is in the management tools" will also be organised)

A call for paper for the Profoss event about virtualisation has been sent out. If you're using virtualisation in a professional environment, and want to share your experience with professional ICT users, send your proposal!

Slides used for the presentations during the Profoss Asterisk event on 9 and 10 october in Brussels are now online. They are available from the event's schedule, but here's the list for easy access:

• Carmelo Zaccone's "VOIP & Asterisk introduction" in original format (ppt) and pdf, also available on SlideShare
• Gautier Hankenne's SME deployment case study in original format (ppt) and pdf
• Raphaël Libois' Interfacing a proprietary product with Asterisk in original format (ppt) and pdf
• Jacques Gripekoven's "Improving your commercial service with Asterisk" in pdf
• Vincent Luba and Charles Lopes' "Tips and tricks for big deployments" in original format (odp) and pdf
• Kevin P. Fleming's "The future of Asterisk" and "Asterisk and security", both in pdf

Kevin P. Fleming, Asterisk co-maintainer, has been interviewed by Profoss in preparation to his participation to the event titled "Asterisk and VoIP". He talks about his role at Digium, the future of Asterisk, Digium's activities, etc. Go read it!

Other interviews published to day are: Carmelo Zaccone, technology watcher for the Walloon government, Jacques Gripekoven, Managing Director Eyepea, Gautier Hankenne, who deployed Asterisk at Eurofer.

Previously published interviews: Jordi Nelissen, Escaux co-founder, Raphaël Libois, Sales Engineer GenesysLab, and Vincent Luba, Novacom developer.

Today the first interviews of the Profoss Asterisk speakers have been published.

Asterisk, subject of the next Profoss event, has seen two new versions published, The 1.2.24 is the final in the 1.2 series, as it will only be updated with security fixes from now on. Version 1.4.10 contains security fixes. Both releases can be downloaded now.