Links for 2007-11-01 [del.icio.us]

• WAG_RFC_001 - web-alignment-group - Google Code
  The primary goals of this memorandum is to define the Heuristic Mapping technology in terms of: Heuristic Action Matching, Heuristic Result Matching, Explicit Mappings.
• VentureCake » Blog Archive » VirtualBox 1.5: the good, the bad, and the ugly
  The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to.
• Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence: Home
  The Pentaho BI Project provides enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities that help organizations operate more efficiently and effectively.
• Talend - provider of open source data integration software
  A very easy to install open source data integration / ETL solution seeing rapid adoption that is also easy to use.
• JasperSoft - Open Source Business Intelligence
  JasperSoft has one of the best open source reporting solutions on top of their open source BI stack
• Ignite Realtime: Spark IM Client
  Spark is a open source, cross platform IM solution with very strong security to help enterprise get over the "security" questions on the use of IM in the enterprise.