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IBM and Second Life interoperability

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:00:52 +0000

This is great news: IBM announced interoperability between Virtual Worlds, and Second Life in particular.
Lots of sources commented on this:

Cisco calls it a mayor interoperability milestone.

Virtual world news is warm about it: “Linden Lab will start an Open Grid Public Beta in July, making the Second Life Preview Grid available with Open Grid Protocol support for login and teleport”

And, of course, the official Linden Blog stresses out the importance of the Open Grid protocol.

I agree that this step will help Second Life a lot, and will probably save them from competition. I am happy to see that they are finally opening up a little bit. They needed to do that.
Thanks guys! Good job!

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Limited interoperability between Second Life and OpenSim

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:58:19 +0000

OpenSim is an interesting project, an open source server to host virtual worlds.
From the wikipedia page:
“OpenSimulator uses libsecondlife to handle communication between the client and server, so it is possible to connect to an OpenSim server using the Linden Lab Second Life client“.

Second Life and OpenSim can now enjoy a limited, yet very important, interoperability.
This is so important because OpenSim is forcing Linden Lab to think about their open source policy, in a way or another.
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think that going open source is always THE only answer; some companies, such as Linden Lab, are at risk, and they can’t simply go out, open their code, and hope for the better.
Still, they need to focus on their strategic view, which of course implies going Open, sooner or later (like Facebook).

Otherwise, users (and businesses) will find better platforms, and migrate there.

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Data Center Remote management… using OpenSim!

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:59:32 +0000

IBM launched a 3D Data Center application (in OpenSim).
If you’re an IT administrator, and want to remotely manage your data center, this application can be useful for you. Give it a try.

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realXtend joins OpenSim

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:39:26 +0000

Good news: realXtend joins OpenSim.
I really hope OpenSim will eventually become an open standard for virtual worlds… and I also hope that Linden Lab will face this dilemma once and for all.

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