Two More Wins for Open Source

I hate to be simplistic, but in my view, open source equals good. And today there were two unrelated news items that both equate to "wins" for the open source practice.

The first was the announcement that Samsonite is using Elastic Path flexible ecommerce platform to deploy an open-source global ecommerce platform for its Black Label luggage brand, in 8 languages and in 45 countries. When I was at Avenue A | Razorfish I had the pleasure of being part of this pitch out of the London office, so an it's especially happy moment on a personal level.

Second, Wired reported today that an astrophysicist has replaced a supercomputer with eight Sony PlayStation3's, citing the Linux platform as a key reason for choosing the PlayStation 3. The project will measure theoretical gravity waves.

So yeah for open source! Congrats!