<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE</title><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:13:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/71/eos-mag-logo-145(1).gif</url><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Digital Identity and Service-Oriented Architecture - Hope and Glory</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565994.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565994.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565994_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both the commercial and user-centric spheres, and important catalysts to drive successful deployment.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World - On the Wireless Fringes of SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565993.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565993.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565993_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility]]></description></item><item><title>Making Sense of the BPM &amp; SOA Standards Alphabet Soup</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565972.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565972.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565972_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[What is BPEL? What is XPDL? How are they different? What is the best use for each? What is BPMN, and why should I care? Which of these are primarily designed to help IT at a technical level, and which help an organization at a business level? Amongst the flurry of BPM and Web services standards that appear to overlap at times, there is a central core of important ones. This session, led by Keith Swenson, Fujitsu's Chief Architect and Co-Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition Technical Committee (WfMC), is aimed at lending clarity to the fuzzy world of BPM and Web services standards and at explaining the benefits of investing in standards-driven solutions.]]></description></item><item><title>Service Oriented Unified Process</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565934.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565934.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565934_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Service orientation is one of the most popular trends of these recent years, but there are not any metrics on it. Hence you can not consume SOA in a project with a specific measuring. On the other side, Unified Process (especially RUP) has powerful abilities on such developments. In our discussion Chris Shayan is going to demonstrate that we can combine SOA and RUP with each other and finally make a Service Oriented Unified Process.]]></description></item><item><title>The End of Middleware As You Know It</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565890.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565890.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565890_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-based middleware. A better, distributed approach to SOA infrastructure can help reduce cost and increase the benefit of SOA implementation. This presentation includes an overview of the industry trends driving us toward SOA and explains why traditional middleware systems do not meet modern requirements as well as a distributed approach to SOA infrastructure.]]></description></item><item><title>Where We Are and Where We Need to Be With SOA?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565888.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565888.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565888_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why do enterprises set out to build a Service Oriented Architecture, but end up with a 'Service Averse Architecture'? There are many promises being made about the potential of SOA these days, followed by disillusionment as these promises don't pan out. However, SOA is more than a single IT project or even a series of implementations. Rather, SOA represents a long-term change in thinking and management of all aspects of the enterprise. SOA not only decomposes technology into loosely coupled systems, but also decomposes organizations into 'loosely coupled businesses.' This session will look at the latest survey data on ways organizations are embracing service oriented architecture, and how far along the road most are from full-functioning SOA.]]></description></item><item><title>New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565859.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565859.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565859_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of the architecture, especially runtime governance. In fact, the success of any SOA requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these highly distributed services and their supporting IT infrastructure. Similarly, security and governance usually play a critical role in the proper operation of a SOA. Although one may support these critical SOA functions using many different technologies and standards, there is no doubt that for most users today the popular WS-* standards will play a central role. We will conclude by considering how all of these standards might best work together to solve these real-world problems in your SOA. In the process, we will speculate upon some the strengths and weaknesses in the current Web services stack, the nature of the standards process and what trends might be most relevant to your own future success.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization, Going Green, Google and SaaS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/569364.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/569364.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/569364_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Dell is going to try to cut the energy consumption of its laptops and desktops by up to 25% between now and 2010 to avoid millions of tons of CO2 emissions, comparing its pledge to HP's, which is supposed to cut relative its 2005 levels. It says Dell OptiPlex desktop are down nearly 50% since 2005 and Latitude laptops are down 16% since 2006.]]></description></item><item><title>LINQ, Entity Framework and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services for the Web</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565932.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565932.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565932_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from data. Technologies such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services simplify the job of developers. The ADO.NET Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction for data programming. It is the evolution of ADO.NET that allows developers to program in terms of the standard ADO.NET abstraction or in terms of persistent objects (ORM) and is built upon the standard ADO.NET Provider model. The Entity Framework introduces a set of services around the Entity Data Model (EDM) (a medium for defining domain models for an application).]]></description></item><item><title>WADL, URIs as Database Types, Tricks of the Architect&apos;s Trade</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565814.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565814.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565814_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[URIs are the lingua franca of the Web. They are in every Web page and every HTTP request. In a practical sense, they represent the realization of the Web. Without them, the Web would cease to exist. The situation is very different in the world of the RDBMS. Here, URIs are interlopers. Some RDBMS have provided basic support for URIs via their object extension facilities; however, URIs are still not considered a formal part of RDBMS schema design. This talk explores how URI could evolve to become as important to RDBMS Schemas as it is to the Web.]]></description></item><item><title>Premiere Global Opens New Markets With FioranoMQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563705.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563705_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fiorano Software announced that Premiere Global Services, a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions chose FioranoMQ to enhances its e-mail marketing product lines with higher response rates, instant consumer actions and direct results tracking.]]></description></item><item><title>Changing the Process of Web Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/568551.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/568551.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/568551_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[All new or emerging businesses are rightfully cautious of the big investment required to launch a successful web presence. A new cost-effective and time-saving service enables companies to fast track their strategic and tactical web initiatives while still actively growing their user base. Unlike past methods of web development, rapid prototyping is a back-to-front development process that allows the product user interface to be fully designed before writing any code.]]></description></item><item><title>Opinion: Give ColdFusion Some Room to Breathe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567770.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567770.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567770_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My personal approach has become to to let ColdFusion do what it does best, and no more. No AJAX generation or any of that silly UI stuff. Leave that to the AJAX frameworks, or Flex, or whatever your UI is going to be on the front-end. That's what the UI tool was designed for, CF wasn't. Let CF focus on three things: getting data into and out of RIA front-ends, rendering HTML with dynamic data, and providing services that Java and .NET cannot provide.]]></description></item><item><title>Verizon Becomes a Counter-Android Linux Convert</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567325.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567325.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567325_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Verizon Wireless is snubbing Google's Linux-based Android initiative to go with the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux spec for its next wave of mobile phones expected next year. Along with Verizon, Mozilla signed up - giving the consortium its first major open source ISV - and a key one for conveying applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint: Not Every ColdFusion Developer Should Be A Flex Developer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/551125_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I am going to go ahead and contend that although a good number of ColdFusion developers can grasp and understand Flex very well, there are also a good number of ColdFusion developers who have no business going anywhere near Flex. Why do I say this? I am a big fan of Flex. I use it daily to create, what I think are, some kick-ass applications. It is a powerful tool that really changes the game on the web and the desktop. That being said, it is not a tool that every ColdFusion developer can grasp.]]></description></item><item><title>Brocade Extends Data Center Performance With Virtualization Support</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565410.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565410.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/565410_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Brocade announced a series of data center fabric switches and server HBAs that deliver a new level of end-to-end data center networking performance. In addition, the Company announced advanced networking capabilities across both switches and HBAs that simplifies the end-to-end management of server and storage environments, including data migration and data security, in data centers.]]></description></item><item><title>FalconStor Ramps Up with New SRA for VMware Site Recovery Manager Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567987.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567987.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567987_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[FalconStor announced FalconStor Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager. According to FalconStor, VMware Site Recovery Manager is a new product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the data center, VMware Site Recovery Manager provides for business continuity planning and testing.]]></description></item><item><title>emerion Powers VPS Offerings with Parallels Virtualization Virtuozzo Containers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567986.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567986.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/567986_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[emerion WebHosting is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to power new virtual private server (VPS) offerings for its customers. emerion vServers also use Parallels Plesk Control Panel and Parallels Business Automation software to provide a complete solution for managing VPS services, including billing and provisioning.]]></description></item><item><title>OpenOffice 3.0 Goes to Public Beta</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563151.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563151.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/563151_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OpenOffice.org is publicly beta testing OpenOffice 3.0, which is not recommended for production use. General release is expected in September. Aside from cosmetics, it will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and is capable of opening Office 2007 and 2008 for Mac OS X files.]]></description></item><item><title>Red Hat Launches JBoss Operations Network 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560953.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560953.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560953_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Red Hat announced the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration initiative announced earlier this year, which is aimed at fostering adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware by increasing its capabilities for large-scale enterprise use. Available in modular format, JBoss ON 2.0 provides organizations with an end-to-end application management solution to coordinate the many stages of the application lifecycle and improve operational efficiency through a single integrated tool.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/561944.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/561944.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/561944_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) with access to a large number of frameworks and applications running on the GlassFish application server.]]></description></item><item><title>Companies Go Green With VMware Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560217.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560217.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560217_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware announced that its virtualization solutions are saving customers tons in costs and CO2 emissions. Using VMware virtualization, customers can consolidate 10 or more physical machines onto a single server and reduce power consumption and cost by 80-90 percent. VMware customers that have moved from a 1:1 application to server ratio to 60:1 or higher have achieved millions of dollars in capital and operational savings.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Microsystems and OpenSolaris Introduce OpenSolaris OS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560780.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560780.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/560780_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems and the global OpenSolaris community announced the availability of the OpenSolaris Operating System (OS). According to the company, OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration, offers the combination of innovation, platform stability and support to meet business and development needs. It combines the foundation of Solaris technologies and tools with desktop features and applications developed by open source communities such as GNOME, Mozilla and the Free Software Foundation.]]></description></item><item><title>NetApp StoreVault Serves Up Virtualization Storage Environment For Breckenridge Group</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558918.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558918.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558918_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[NetApp announced that the Breckenridge Group (BGI) created a more efficient and effective storage environment with the recent implementation of the StoreVault S500 storage solution. BGI is a management firm specializing in the development, operations, and ongoing support of various restaurant and hotel locations throughout the western United States. BGI's IT environment consisted of 150 workstations and 250 PC-based point of sales (POS) terminals in the field along with 80 workstations, 14 physical servers, and 16 virtual servers that were located in the company's main office. With more than 4TB of direct-attached storage (DAS), the tasks of archiving, accessing, and backing up data were cumbersome.]]></description></item><item><title>Trubiquity Launches TRUcore SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559109.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559109.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559109_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Trubiquity (formerly Autoweb) has launched its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture. Trubiquity's new software architecture, named TRUcore, improves communications among global business teams, from an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) level down through a company's global supply chain. The new architecture also streamlines customers' internal business processes and offers better coordination, data management and process execution between a company's business units and its global supply chain partners.]]></description></item><item><title>Fortisphere Launches Partner Program to Expand Delivery of Virtualization Solutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558879.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558879.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558879_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Fortisphere announced the Fortisphere Partner Program. Created for the company's resellers, system integrators and OEM partners, the Fortisphere Partner Program will provide customers with a comprehensive ecosystem of solution partners focused on delivering best-in-class, policy-based management solutions for virtual environments.]]></description></item><item><title>RedPrairie Introduces New E²e Business Process SOA Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559108.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559108.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559108_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[RedPrairie announced a new E²e Business Process Platform to orchestrate cross-application business processes. Built on SOA standards and web services technologies, the new platform enables a common point of integration for all RedPrairie and third-party applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Raiffeisen and UNIQA Implement Software AG&apos;s webMethods BPMS to Extend SOA Implementation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559002.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559002.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559002_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Software AG announced that the Raiffeisen Banking Group and the UNIQA Insurance Group have implemented webMethods BPMS from Software AG to support their corporate growth strategies. The companies have sought to grow their partnership to capitalize on the expansion of the European Union as well as liberalization of the European financial services markets. As a result, UNIQA has grown throughout Central and Eastern Europe, with the company now serving twenty international markets, including fourteen in partnership with Raiffeisen. Software AG's full-feature process design, execution, monitoring and management solution is being used to better serve this expanded customer base, to help integrate new acquisitions and near-shore operations, and to keep pace with a changing regulatory landscape.]]></description></item><item><title>Cross-Platform Virtualization Software Company Sponsors Digital60 Day</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558773.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558773.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558773_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Transitive announced its sponsorship of Digital60 Day, an event hosted by the University of Manchester in the UK to mark the 60th anniversary of the successful running of a program on a digital computer. As with the first digital computer (nicknamed the 'Baby' by its inventors), the innovative technology behind Transitive's successful cross-platform virtualization solutions was pioneered at the University of Manchester. Transitive was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from the university, to commercialize the results of a promising research project. Transitive's development team is based in Manchester, and includes many graduates from the university's School of Computer Science.]]></description></item><item><title>AmberPoint Extends SOA Governance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559000.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559000.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/559000_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AmberPoint announced that it has extended the reach of its runtime SOA governance software across a broad set of additional platforms. These capabilities, which result from enhancements to the company's architecture for distributed SOA governance, extend AmberPoint's visibility and control across the wide range of components used in today's SOA environments.]]></description></item><item><title>Ermestel Partners With Scalent Systems to Introduce Infrastructure Virtualization in Spain</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558770.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558770.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558770_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ermestel and Scalent Systems announced an agreement where Ermestel will integrate Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software into the IT environments of its customers. This partnership enables Ermestel to broaden its technology solution portfolio and confirm its position as one of Spain's top integration companies specializing in the virtualization of data centers. The future of managing IT systems is in virtualization technologies -- and is expanding as a business strategy for Global 2000 companies -- which is a sweet spot for infrastructure virtualization because it enables a more adaptive and dynamic IT infrastructure.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - VIA Tries Open Source</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558170.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558170.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/558170_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VIA is setting up a Linux Portal, still in beta, to get open source driver developed. It will initially focus on graphics drivers for its CN896 digital media IGP chipset for the latest Ubuntu distribution. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, says it will work to get the drivers built into Ubuntu.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun CEO: &quot;Sun Continues to Lead the Open Source Innovation Revolution&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557960.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557960.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557960_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['The world is moving to open source innovation, and Sun continues to lead that revolution,' said Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, as Sun reported yesterday its Q3 fiscal 2008 results. 'We continue to invest in the future created by open alternatives to proprietary technologies, best exemplified by the acquisition of MySQL,' Schwartz added.]]></description></item><item><title>Open-Source Middleware Communities Merge CORBA Component Model Efforts Under PrismTech&apos;s OpenFusion CCM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556958.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556958.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556958_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PrismTech announced that the two open-source middleware communities are merging their CORBA Component Model (CCM) initiatives, underpinning the company's OpenFusion CCM offering. The Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group and the OW2 Consortium - with support and contribution from PrismTech - are combining their efforts to advance the development and deployment of CCM technology.]]></description></item><item><title>There&apos;s Power in a Common Customer View</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557471.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557471.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/557471_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Last summer, a group of technical experts from various open source companies came together under the banner of the Open Solutions Alliance, rolled out an enterprise-class application, and demonstrated the power of collaboration with the launch of the Common Customer View project, an interoperability project that integrates data from diverse front-office, back-office, and planning applications.]]></description></item><item><title>nextanalytics 3.0 Shakes Up BI with MySQL Open Source Model</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556230.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556230.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556230_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Veteran Business Intelligence (BI) entrepreneur Ward Yaternick has released his latest business analytics product, nextanalytics 3.0, with industry-disruptive pricing, top-tier product functionality, and easy online distribution. nextanalytics 3.0 emulates MySQL's strategy, offering business analytics capabilities. Yaternick has spent nearly 20 years in the BI industry, including key development roles at Cognos, OLAP@Work, and Business Objects. In 2003, Yaternick founded Ottawa-based nextanalytics with the mandate to deliver innovations in business analytics.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Microsystems Extends Open Storage Platform with New Services and Tools in OpenSolaris Operating System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556487.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556487.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/556487_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems announced the addition of developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. Over 3,000 members and 30+ projects within an active and growing OpenSolaris storage community demonstrate a groundswell within the storage industry for developers and enterprise companies to use open source alternatives to expensive proprietary storage offerings.]]></description></item><item><title>Aras Brings Enterprise Open Source to the PLM Market in EMEA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/553693.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/553693.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/553693_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Aras announced expanded operations throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa [EMEA] and opened an EMEA headquarters office in Solothurn Switzerland to meet the growing demand for the Aras Innovator enterprise software solutions. As part of the expansion, Aras plans to add sales and support operations and extend the partner network across the region to provide local geographical representation.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World - SnapLogic Data Integration Project Goes Commercial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/552120.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/552120.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/552120_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SnapLogic, the open source start-up that been fostering the eponymous data integration project for the past year, is going commercial with the widgetry, claiming that the stuff can do what proprietary software from TIBCO and Infomatica can't and make it easy to tap and use the data trapped in practically impenetrable data warehouses. Guess they ought to know - cause one of SnapLogic's founders, Gaurav Dhillon, was the founder and CEO of Informatica before embarking on this new adventure.]]></description></item><item><title>Open Source &amp; Commercial Software: Both Are Crucial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/492719.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/492719.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/492719_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is software development a science or an art? The software industry treats it as a science. It uses processes like MRDs, PRDs, and functional specs to convert customer needs into software that solves their problems. Various roles like product managers, engineering managers, project managers, architects, and programmers work together to drive the process like an efficient machine.]]></description></item><item><title>Which of These Six Open Source Companies Will Be the Next Red Hat?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/529607.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/529607.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/529607_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the world of open source software Red Hat's crossed over from exciting leader to respectable elder statesman. The action is among the new batch of up-and-coming open source software companies who are not yet venture backed but are developing interesting technologies and services. Here are some of the companies that may well be the new open source superstars.]]></description></item><item><title>Ingres Executives Named to Open Source Boards</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/549075.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/549075.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/549075_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ingres announced the appointments of Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres, to the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors, and Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Ingres, to the board of directors of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). McGrattan and Woods are known figures in the open source community, with the promotion of open source solutions at the heart of what they do each day. The growing adoption of the open source business model worldwide has led to the expansion of open source organizations promoting interoperability such as the OSA and open development platforms like Eclipse.]]></description></item><item><title>Open Source Census Starts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546645.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546645.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546645_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OpenLogic and friends are going to try to plum the depths of open source adoption in the enterprise by asking the enterprise to take part in a voluntary self-administered Open Source Census. The global multi-year exercise kicked off on Wednesday when the www.osscensus.org went live. The census takers figure the results should surprise just about everybody and that when companies realize how dependent they already are on open source the floodgates will open wider.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Microsystems Introduces MySQL Workbench</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/548069.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/548069.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/548069_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems announced the availability of MySQL Workbench, a new visual database design tool that integrates data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs. MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development.]]></description></item><item><title>MySQL 5.1 Delayed for Bug Spray</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546760.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546760.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546760_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At the first MySQL user conference since it spent a billion dollars acquiring the open source database, Sun said this week that a near-final release candidate of MySQL 5.1 could be downloaded at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads. It's supposed to be generally available in June, two months later than anticipated. It's trying to avoid a bug-ridden premature release like MySQL 5.0.]]></description></item><item><title>OSA Announces New Board Members</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/547402.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/547402.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/547402_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, announced the results of its first annual board of director elections. The OSA, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in February, filled three vacant board positions by electing Deb Woods, vice president of product marketing at Ingres; Josep Mitjà, chief operating officer at Openbravo; and Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager for the Open Source Business at Unisys. They join existing board members Michael Harvey, EVP and CMO at Concursive, and Dominic Sartorio, OSA President and Senior Director of Product Management at SpikeSource.]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint: Time for Open Source Software Vendors to Think Beyond Free</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/519843.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/519843.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/519843_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Of the many sins that Silicon Valley practices, none are more dangerous or prevalent than the sin of smugness. Savio Rodrigues has a good posting making the point that Microsoft is learning from and adapting to the open-source movement, while the open-source movement is so enamored with 'free' that they are not paying enough attention to the total cost of ownership from a customer's perspective.]]></description></item><item><title>Exadel dVision Certified for MySQL Enterprise 5.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546883.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546883.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/546883_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Exadel announced Exadel dVision, the company's Rich Internet Application for on-demand access to enterprise data stored across multiple data sources, has been certified for MySQL Enterprise 5.0. As a MySQL Enterprise Certified Partner, Exadel's new enhanced support for the MySQL open source database software provides full integration between dVision and MySQL Enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>Eliminating the &apos;Software Tax&apos; by Using ODF</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/498422.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/498422.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/498422_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Just as we have become dependent on oil as an energy resource, we have also become dependent on a single vendor solution for saving our digital history - in the form of our word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet documents. Last year, it was estimated that more than 90 percent of the office productivity suite market was controlled by one vendor, and, historically, because of this dominance, consumers, businesses small and large, and governments have been left with few viable options.]]></description></item><item><title>Sun Executive Says Company Not Suffering from Open Source Malaise Stifling Novell</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/543881.htm</guid><link>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/543881.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/543881_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novell is the company stuck in an open source malaise, not Sun Microsystems, at least according to Simon Phipps, chief open source officer for Sun. While talking with IT Business Edge, Phipps responded to comments Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian made regarding the future of Sun and OpenSolaris during a recent Linux Foundation podcast. Phipps said that Hovsepian quoted inaccurate download numbers for OpenSolaris while criticizing Sun's open source strategy.]]></description></item></channel></rss>