{"id":209,"date":"2008-03-22T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/03\/22\/the-fossa-project\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T19:29:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T02:29:02","slug":"the-fossa-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/03\/22\/the-fossa-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fossa Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2008\/03\/penguins.jpg\" alt=\"penguins\" align=\"left\" height=\"126\" width=\"180\" \/> At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/brainshare\/\" title=\"Brainshare\">Brainshare<\/a>, Novell&#8217;s annual user conference in Salt Lake City, our CTO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/ctoblog\/\" title=\"Jeff Jaffe's blog\">Jeff Jaffe<\/a>, announced a new technology vision, code-named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/brainshare\/2008\/docs\/4611191.pdf\" title=\"Project Fossa whitepaper\">Project Fossa<\/a>,&#8221; [pdf] intended to enable computing and collaborating with agility.   The fossa is a cat-like mammal from Madagascar, sort of related to raccoons, weasels, and palm civits.   (Fossas may be viverrids like civits or the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falanouc\" title=\"falanouc\">falanouc<\/a>, another Madagascar endemic; the taxonomy seems to be contested.)  Fossas are supposed to be very agile, and if you have little kids you know them as the villains in the animated movie <em>Madagascar<\/em>.  The project&#8217;s name is also a play on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/licensing\/essays\/free-sw.html\" title=\"Free Software\">Free <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/docs\/osd\" title=\"Open Source Software\">Open Source Software<\/a> (FOSS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/206904361\" title=\"CRN on Fossa\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/software\/0,1000000121,39369097,00.htm\" title=\"Brainshare kickoff\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php\/id;2007090663;fp;16;fpid;1\" title=\"ComputerWorld Australia on Fossa\">press <\/a>coverage including the priceless hed &#8220;Novell focuses future strategy around endangered mongoose&#8221; from the UK edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/community.zdnet.co.uk\/blog\/0,1000000567,10007556o-2000331759b,00.htm\" title=\"Novell focuses future strategy around endangered mongoose\">ZDNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Brainshare, Novell&#8217;s annual user conference in Salt Lake City, our CTO, Jeff Jaffe, announced a new technology vision, code-named &#8220;Project Fossa,&#8221; [pdf] intended to enable computing and collaborating with agility. The fossa is a cat-like mammal from Madagascar, sort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/03\/22\/the-fossa-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1061,1425,1029,1422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-novell","category-open-source","category-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-3n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}