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August 26, 2010In July we released CorneliOS BETA 1, which is focusing on the CIOS framework while the upcoming BETA 2 will be mostly about CorneliOS core technologies and basic applications. The final CorneliOS 1.0 release is still on schedule for January 2011.
BETA 1 is progressing very well, the rough work has been completed as the CIOS community and CIOS app layers as well as the renewed session management have been implemented. The community layer is performing well and we're now implementing it on some sites, although there's still fine-tuning to be done. The app layer looks great too, but here's still some work to do and some major features are still missing. Anyway, there's 5 weeks left to complete that stuff and we're quite sure this will absolutely rock when it's finished.
CorneliOS BETA 2 will be launched in October and will focus on the DAC (Dynamic Access Control) layer as well as on the user, website and database management apps. Finishing the apps will be the easier part, there's a lot of fine-tuning to do although we don't think this will be so challenging. The tough part will be the DAC, which will add modular access control features, although we're absolutely confident that this can be done. But it's still not sure if or how DAC features could be used by the CIOS layer too.
CIOS now includes most of the core technology originally found in the Galaxiki community website, plus tons of new stuff including social networking features. Which means that it will become much easier for us the create new collaborative websites in future - Galaxiki has already been ported to the new technology, and we expect to have up to three community sites online by the end of the year.
Bad news is that we've stalled development of the OLMO CMS only one year after announcing it, which means that this software won't be ready for January 2011. The reason for this decision was that we now think the initial concept wasn't innovative enough, especially when compared to our latest stuff such as the CIOS community and app layers. In the end OLMO looked a bit like OLEFA with a CorneliOS backend, and this is not where we'd like to end up. All of this doesn't mean that OLMO's a dead project, but it will be delayed until we've refined the core concept so that it meets our expectations.
Work on the recording studio is also progressing well, and we're actively working on first projects. Nevertheless we decided not to finish work on these projects until we'll get our digital mixing console, which will help to save a lot of time over the DAW-only approach. Another change of concept is that we'll probably be replacing the analog patchbay for the outgear by a digital solution. This all means that first project releases shouldn't be expected before 2011.
And finally: as our work has become quite popular all around the world we decided to found a non-profit organization which will serve as a legal framework and as a recognizable label for our projects. The non-profit organization has been created on June 21, 2010, and it's called Joopita Research. Our new website can be found at www.joopita.org.
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CorneliOS BETA 1 available now
July 06, 2010Today we've released CorneliOS BETA 1, which offers a renewed home application and kicks off the official BETA testing phase. Within the next 6 months we'll fine-tune the UI, we'll add some missing stuff such as the DAC layer and we'll greatly improve the user and database managers. The first CorneliOS release for end users will be ready in January 2010.
CIOS will also see some major updates, we'll introduce the new community layer soon, there will be a new language management library and we're also working on a new application management layer. Within the next few months we'll update our community platforms to support the new CIOS and CorneliOS features.
As promised before we'll also introduce some completely new products and platforms this year, so stay tuned...
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CorneliOS/CIOS strategy update
June 08, 2010The good news first: CorneliOS development is still on schedule and we're quite confident that the first release targeted at end users (CorneliOS 1.0) will become available as originally expected in January 2011.
The bad news is that some core technology prototypes have been delayed and will not yet be available with the upcoming CorneliOS Beta 1 in July, this includes the DAC (Dynamic Access Control) layer as well as fully implemented user and database management applications. These features will only ship later this year, probably as part of CorneliOS Beta 2.
These delays are partly due to the fact that we invested much more time than initially expected in other new technologies. These new technologies include CIOS (the CorneliOS I/O System) as well as the CMS for musicians that has been greatly improved within the past few weeks.
CIOS has become more and more important during the past few months and we think that CIOS will indeed become the primary core technology used in most of our upcoming software projects. CIOS itself makes heavy use of the CorneliOS core system and is technically part of the CorneliOS software distribution.
This evolution will probably also influence the future of both CorneliOS and CIOS - CorneliOS could turn into an interesting research project while CIOS will probably become the invisible core behind many end user solutions...
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New Desdemonia website online
May 17, 2010
During the past few weeks I completed work on the new version of the Desdemonia website, which is now powered by the same CorneliOS based CMS already used by the Pagan Lorn and Chris music websites. Further changes to the site are planned and will probably go online in mid June, but this already gives a good impression of the new site features.
Check out the new Desdemonia website here:
www.desdemonia.net
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First proton beam collisions at the LHC
March 30, 2010Today at about 13:00 local time scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator LHC first managed to collide beams at 7 TeV, which marks the official launch of the LHC programme at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Only ten days ago they managed to circulate two 3.5 TeV proton beams in the large 27 km ring, which already marked a new world record.
All collision detectors seem to work fine now, after the LHC experienced major technical problems during the past few years and the entire experiment had to be delayed on several occasions.
Scientists are now increasing up the number of collisions, although it may take months or even years until one can expect first publications about the results of the experiments.
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