By Maureen O'Gara  Bluenog – a nog being a peg that holds a structure together – has rolled out ICE 4.0, or Integrated Collaborative Environment, calling it the industry’s first pre-integrated suite of enterprise content management, RIA portal development environment and business intelligence repor... Oct. 15, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,777 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Greenplum, the grandest of the open source-based databases, whose massively parallel shared-nothing architecture supports petabyte data warehousing on cost-effective general-purpose hardware and promises linear scalability on thousands of processors, has pushed out its latest cut, rev ... Sep. 25, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 1,417 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Softmaker Software GmbH, a German Office wannabe, has taken out after open source darling OpenOffice, saying it’s not good enough to score against Microsoft and proposing its own widgetry as a substitute. The company has just put out a public beta of its Software Office 2008 for Linu... Sep. 17, 2008 08:30 PM Reads: 1,589 Replies: 1 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Bluenog announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.0, the integrated suite of content management (ECM or CMS), portal, and business intelligence (BI) software. Bluenog ICE is an “Integrated Collaborative Environment” that leverages Web 2.0 technologies. The suite’s tight integra... Sep. 15, 2008 01:35 PM Reads: 1,046 Replies: 1 |
By Jos Dirksen; Tijs Rademakers  When you work with open source ESBs, you can use other tools and frameworks to help you solve common problems. Spring is one of the tools that extends the basic functionality of the ESBs Mule and ServiceMix and makes solving integration problems a lot easier. Spring is a component fram... Sep. 11, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,545 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Alfresco Software announced the availability of the first Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft implementation. As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who w... Sep. 10, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 1,023 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk The Linux Foundation announced that Black Duck Software has joined as a Foundation member. Black Duck provides solutions for software development teams and legal counsel to manage the hybrid software development process, which involves the assembly of internal software, open source sof... Sep. 10, 2008 08:40 AM Reads: 823 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Alfresco Software announced that Adobe has implemented Alfresco’s document sharing and collaboration capabilities as part of the file sharing features in Acrobat.com. Adobe chose Alfresco as its content repository for its clustered high-availability, security, and highly capable tec... Sep. 2, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,126 |
By RIA News Desk qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative AJAX application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS or DOM knowledge is needed. It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI ... Aug. 29, 2008 08:36 AM Reads: 796 |
By James Irwin  I was shocked. We were in the brainstorming phase of developing a new collaboration portal and the possibilities were flying. It was exciting to see people from many disciplines enthusiastic about working together more effectively through improved communication, document management, an... Aug. 27, 2008 11:10 AM Reads: 900 |
By Dominic Sartorio  In our first annual survey of our membership and other open source software and services companies, the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) found much optimism despite a murky economy, and a surprisingly high level of collaboration by open source software and services companies. Aug. 26, 2008 10:07 AM Reads: 900 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Talend, the open source company with the SaaS data integration software, is now moving into the data clean-up business with a software module that identifies stuff like duplicated records and incorrect street addresses by comparing them against reference data from places like the US Po... Aug. 26, 2008 09:07 AM Reads: 826 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk ELASTRA announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform. ELASTRA’s products are designed for portability across compute clouds and currently provide support for the Amazon EC2 and S3 compute and storage environments. Because Eucalyptus exposes its virtual machines ... Aug. 19, 2008 08:44 AM Reads: 609 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wednesday overturned a year-old San Francisco district court decision that deprived the aggrieved plaintiff in a dispute over open source software governed by the Artistic License of the right to sue for copyright infringement ... Aug. 16, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 834 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Google has waded into the encryption business with an open source cross-platform toolkit called Keyczar that’s supposed to make it easier for ISVs to put cryptography in their applications. It says Keyczar supports both encryption and authentication with both symmetric and asymmetric... Aug. 15, 2008 02:11 PM Reads: 813 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, announced that their open source cluster software stack, UniCluster, has exceeded 5,000 downloads by the HPC community. Grid.org, launched in November 2007, was developed to provide a single aggregation point for... Aug. 13, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,091 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Open-Xchange announced an agreement with O3SIS. The companies expect to release in the third quarter software that will enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telcos and web hosting companies to offer their customers a mobile extension of the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition. Aug. 7, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,029 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Aster Data Systems announced a strategic partnership with Pentaho that combines product integration, certification, and services. The two companies will also partner on joint sales and marketing efforts. Aster will provide its Aster nCluster analytic database to work in conjunction wit... Aug. 7, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,037 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk XAware announced the general availability of XAware 5.1, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. The product enh... Aug. 7, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 941 |
By Maureen O'Gara Mozy, EMC’s online backup property, says it doubled the size of its enterprise and SMB customer base in the first half and now has more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business customers backing up 7.6 billion files to its 10-petabyte storage system. Aug. 1, 2008 07:24 PM Reads: 540 |
By Maureen O'Gara Having outgrown its homemade log analysis scripts, Mozilla has deployed Pentaho’s commercial open source business intelligence (BI) Data Integration widgetry and Vertica Systems’ high-performance analytic database to analyze large volumes of log file information in a data warehouse... Aug. 1, 2008 06:55 PM Reads: 530 |
By Maureen O'Gara Like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft is now suddenly a platinum sponsor of that open source touchstone, the Apache Software Foundation, and has pledged its $100,000 check. The move was announced Friday at the Open Source Convention in a speech by Microsoft senior director of platform strat... Aug. 1, 2008 12:48 PM Reads: 624 |
By Maureen O'Gara Alfresco pounced on that SharePoint protocol that the European Commission forced Microsoft to disgorge and turned up Thursday with what it claims is the first fully compatible open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, one of the fastest-growing and stickiest products in the Micr... Aug. 1, 2008 12:17 PM Reads: 610 |
By Maureen O'Gara  SnapLogic, the outfit that calls itself the really simple integration company and leverages RESTful web technology, has announced a SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to its open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the e... Jul. 31, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 1,842 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Black Duck Software announced the addition of a new partner in Taiwan, E-Soft Technologies, further expanding the company's substantial presence in East Asia. Taiwanese companies increasingly utilize open source software to cut development costs and accelerate time-to-market of softwar... Jul. 28, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,045 |
By Maureen O'Gara Zimbra, Yahoo's open source Microsoft-opposing e-mail and calendaring folks, bought last September for $350 million, have released rev 3 beta of their offline e-mail client, Zimbra Desktop, which competes with Outlook, Thunderbird and everybody else with a dog in this race. It's unclea... Jul. 28, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 1,517 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open source software was 'free like a puppy is free.' Just as you can pick out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can download and use open source software without buying a single license. But puppie... Jul. 28, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 1,667 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates into new high security browsers such ... Jul. 25, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 1,684 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk OrecX announced the formal debut of its Oreka Total Recording (TR) software solution for customer service management professionals, leveraging the power of open source in bolstering efficient call-center operation. Oreka TR allows organizations to comply with regulatory requirements an... Jul. 24, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,584 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Black Duck Software announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will en... Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 1,769 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk In the first annual survey of its membership and other open source software and services companies, the Open Solutions Alliance found much optimism despite a murky economy with 83 percent of participants saying they would see a year-over-year increase in revenue in 2008 of open source ... Jul. 24, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 1,448 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly us... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,691 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is an open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-perform... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,826 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has concluded a system integrator partnership agreement with U.S.-headquartered Apatar to distribute its open source data integration suite in South Africa. KID will use, consult, train, and offer support services for the Apatar integration package ... Jul. 23, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 955 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk SnapLogic announced the SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to the SnapLogic open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the enterprise firewall and to create custom integration solutions, including application integrations,... Jul. 23, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 1,219 |
By Maureen O'Gara  As predictable as the bet that night will follow day, Apple sued a little widely watched wannabe Mac cloner in Florida called Psystar that's been selling a $399 box called Open Computer for the last few months. Jul. 18, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,758 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Photon Infotech announced the opening of the Photon Drupal Training Center, a new facility that will leverage and expand Photon's experience and expertise with Drupal, an open-source PHP-driven Content Management System. With a goal of certifying 200 new Drupal experts a year, Photon w... Jul. 17, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 1,419 |
By Linux News Desk Red Hat announced advancements that extend the Company's Linux Automation strategy by providing expanded capabilities and incorporating broadened community involvement for secure management of both users and systems across virtual and physical enterprise infrastructures. Jul. 11, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 3,348 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Five years after Samba 2.0 - with 31 dot releases intervening - the Samba team has finally delivered Samba 3.2, the latest FOSS file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. Samba now has 90% of the file functionality and 95% of the printing functionality and 60% of the au... Jul. 9, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,106 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Sun is offering to put its open source Glassfish application server and MySQL database on as many servers as a company's got for a flat annual subscription - no counting servers, CPUS, cores or virtual machines, it says. Jul. 9, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,406 Replies: 1 |
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