Six months ago Daniel Neis Araujo started Atto Systems Engineering in Florianópolis, Brazil, with the aim of making the intercommunication between medical devices better and cheaper.

This week in open source cloud news headlines ZDNet predicts winners and losers in cloud computing; Amazon needs to adjust its strategy to account for open source momentum; CloudStack is a contender; Rackspace's OpenStack distribution has new features; and Nebula offers the hardware component to OpenStack software.

How is the Linux community like a terrorist organization? This is a question graduate student, IT Manager and Systems Engineer Joel Burleson-Davis recently explored for his master’s thesis on sociological and philosophical systems, including Linux.

New individual Linux Foundation member Tony Atkinson’s technical expertise runs deep as a Linux systems administrator. But he confesses to be a bit of a luddite when it comes to smartphones and tablets.