Open Source

Will PaaS Finally Bring Open Source Love to the Enterprise?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST

Open source platform as a service (PaaS) platforms are one of the most exciting topics in the software industry nowadays. Following the $212M acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce.com, we’ve seen how, in a matter of months, platforms like dotCloud, VMWare’s Cloud Foundry or Red Hat’s OpenShift have emerged with complete PaaS suites based on popular open source technologies. The value proposition behind this type of PaaS offering is very simple: these platforms will enable the foundation to host, manage, provision and scale solutions based on some of the most renowned open source technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Hadoop, and MySQL. When we start exploring these technologies in detail, we will quickly realize that they could have a profound impact on the enterprise software industry, changing the economics and cultural aspects of the open source model. For the last 20 something years, open source technologies have been fighting an uphill battle to gain a wide adoption within traditional business that favors commercial software alternatives. Lack of support options, poor documentation, or vendor commitment are some of the reasons (or prejudices  ) that are often seen as limitations of open source technology stacks. Those years of anti-open source religion have had a deep influence on the software markets. If you think about it, other than JBoss, MySQL or SpringSource, we can’t cite many other big exits of open source technology vendors. While it is true that the number of exits or acquisitions is not in direct correlation to the viability of a business model, it’s a pretty good indicator of the health and stability of a specific market segment.

Cloud Expo Speaker Profile: Rich Wolski - Eucalyptus Systems

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:00:00 EST

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from Nov 7 through Nov 10 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT?

Open Source Integration and Messaging in the Cloud

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

The cloud: few topics are as frequently discussed among information technology (IT) professionals. But why? Internet hosted applications and services certainly aren’t a new concept. In fact, application service providers began delivering functionality via the Web more than a decade ago, and even Software-as-a-Service, considered a revolutionary way to deliver software just a few years ago, is now commonplace. Nor is the cloud necessarily a new story or concept. One can argue it is not unlike the mainframe computing environment of years past – one in which resources are provisioned and allocated as needed. Why then is the cloud the focus of so much attention? Why, too is it increasingly synonymous with increased use of open source integration and messaging solutions? First and foremost, we need to disassociate cloud with merely the delivery of applications. Instead cloud computing addresses something far more fundamental – the delivery of computing power and IT infrastructure in the form of a convenient, cost-effective and ubiquitous service. This ultimately is what enterprises gain when they replace their existing infrastructure with a collection of consolidated servers, whether public, private or a combination of both.

Dell Offers Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:45:00 EST

Canonical has released Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which will run on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers in an integrated solution enabling Dell's U.S.-based customers to easily deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This standard edition will allow software developers and IT organizations to run cloud proof-of-concept programs by providing an optimized, pre-configured testing and development environment. Workloads can easily be shared with external providers for capacity growth due to Ubuntu's open-source implementation of the de facto cloud-computing standard provided by Amazon Web Services.

Can Open Source ERP Succeed?

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:45:00 EST

Open source has been a great success for infrastructure software such as Linux, Apache and MySQL. Here at Software Advice, we’ve made use of all three. We’ve also made extensive use of open source development libraries like jQuery. For apps, however, we have either rolled our own or deployed commercial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. We’re not alone in that decision. Open-source applications have failed to gain mainstream acceptance. Despite passionate communities and a compelling value proposition, businesses just aren’t buying open-source enterprise applications. The lone exception, from what I can tell, is SugarCRM (more on this below). But why not enterprise resource planning (ERP)? Why hasn’t an open-source ERP player gained critical mass?

Cfengine’s Orion Cloud Pack to Work on OpenNebula Clouds

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:30:00 EST

If you're a system administrator, you've probably already heard of Cfengine, a cross-platform datacenter automation framework used by more than 5,000 companies on millions of machines worldwide. With Cfengine, the sysadmin describes the desired system state and Cfengine takes care of the rest: it will install packages, maintain configuration files, keep permissions and ensure the right processes are running according to your policy. A couple of months ago, Cfengine presented a brief overview of the possibilities of a Cfengine-managed OpenNebula setup at the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference in San Jose. The Cfengine team presented how Cfengine may be used on both the physical and virtual sides of an OpenNebula-based cloud. More specifically, they presented how Cfengine can be used to install and configure the physical infrastructure in an OpenNebula cloud, followed by the launch and configuration of generic virtual machine images that will run on top of that OpenNebula infrastructure.

Putin Says "Da" to Free Software

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:15:00 EST

A few months back, in a story mostly about Microsoft’s complicated relationship with the Russian government and its seemingly dualistic role in the ongoing suppression of various free speech and human rights organizations, we also surfaced contemporaneous reports in the Russian language media about an indigenous, government-funded Linux initiative, called Linuksovskaya. The new “national operating system” was reported to be on an aggressive schedule and expected to be released some time in 2012. Fresh reports this week from inside the country now indicate that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is now personally involved in making sure that happens in the second quarter and that by 2015 the whole government is running on free software.

In the Cloud Era, Do We Have Free Speech or Free Beer?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST

The history of free online stuff started with the advent of the Worldwide Web. Prior to that, in the medieval Internet days, we had to pay. We paid for monthly services such as CompuServe, The Source, and AOL. We hated that. We also paid, and paid, for Microsoft products. The price of DOS, and then Windows, was included in the price of every new computer we bought. We hated that, too. Many switched to Apple; even though Steve was a bigger control freak than Bill and Steve were, his stuff was original, cool, and not Microsoft. Then FOSS happened. Free and open software at last! And no matter how many times the free and open-source software folks repeat, “free as in free speech, not free beer,” we were too intoxicated by the concept to listen. The creation of Linux by Linus Torvalds (and coincident completion of a FOSS OS with the Linux Kernel) created a legitimate alternative to Microsoft’s OS and application hegemony. Along the way, the Web happened. An unholy alliance of free-speech advocates, venture-capital pinheads, and pro-business politicians ensured that much of the Web would be “free” and that all of it would be untaxed. Meanwhile, the old-school concept of the “killer app” emerged in the form of search-and-retrieval (a concept dating to the CD-ROM days of the late 80s, later shortened simply to “search”). Yahoo and a few others, then Google became the information liberators. Suddenly, we could read newspapers and magazines from all over the world, most of them at no charge. We could also buy books, lots of books, and not pay that killer 8.25% in California (or any other tax). We could buy kitty litter and dog food, even if it didn’t arrive until the cat had crapped all over the house and the dog had starved to death (somebody please send me the source of that immortal quote). And we could watch young marketing grads drive empty Webvan trucks through our neighborhood. Quibbles aside, the freedom of the Web promised to undo Microsoft. It promised to do the job that US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson utterly failed to do when he fumbled the ball at the goal line. Noting in his decision in the U.S. vs. Microsoft that Microsoft “will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm” that dares compete with it, Judge Jackson was then overcome by hubris in characterizing Microsoft as gangsters and comparing Bill Gates to Napoleon. Really. Bill Gates as Napoleon? Mon dieu! For starters, I’ve met Bill and he’s not short. And I don’t think he’s ever invaded Russia. So Microsoft got a pass, but started to face serious competition from all the free stuff. Even its free stuff (eg, Internet Explorer) faced free competition. Because “free beer” part of FOSS will simply not die. I’ve heard this touted as its singular advantage more times than I want to remember, especially by government officials. These days, Chinese government officials are touting it, a toxic brew from a culture that respects no copyright and thinks copyleft means “no charge.” I’ve not once heard a government official talk about the ability to fork open-source software, to customize it. Never heard them tout entire communities working collectively to improve it. Never heard about how they intend to pay to support it. No, the mindset is “this is not Microsoft, it’s not Oracle, and it’s FREE, baby!“ Where are the ibuprofen? Now we’re in the Cloud Computing era, and this free bit has done got out of hand. Does it make sense to expect top-notch newspaper coverage from sites that cost nothing to access? More important, does it make sense to trade in our privacy (ie, our freedom) so that we can continue to google everything for free, post our pictures for free, and chat, chat, chat for free? For businesses, does it make sense to eliminate the “Microsoft tax” forever by embracing, say, Google apps and Google Chrome OS? Or for the old-wine-new-bottle Oracle Cloud Office? We know it doesn’t seem to make sense to Google to provide all this “free” stuff without collecting copious information about you and where you want to go every day on the Web. We know it doesn’t make any sense to Facebook. Will it also make sense for Oracle to offer “free” apps without also wanting to learn a lot about who you are and what you do? And Microsoft?

OpenXava 4.0: Rapid Java Web Development

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:00:00 EST

OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Development of business applications using Java. The OpenXava 4.0 has been released recently, with many User Interface improvements (RIA), and more possibilities for developers (Groovy, JPA 2.0, DI). OpenXava is a framework for rapid development of business applications using Java. It is easy to learn and one can have an application up in no time. At the same time, OpenXava is extensible, customizable and the application code is structured in a very pure object oriented way, allowing you to develop arbitrarily complex applications. The OpenXava approach for rapid development differs from those that use visual environments (like Visual Basic or Delphi) or scripting (like PHP). Instead, OpenXava uses a model-driven development approach, where the core of your application are Java classes that model your problem. This means you can stay productive while still maintaining a high level of encapsulation.

OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit Goes Commercial

Wed, 05 May 2010 21:00:00 EDT

The authors of the widely used OpenNebula toolkit have founded a company to provide value-added enterprise-solutions around this leading open source technology for cloud computing. C12G Labs has been created to address the growing demand for commercial support and services around OpenNebula. "Our experience is that one single cloud solution does not fit all the requirements and constraints from any data center. We provide our partners with technology and services to build their custom cloud solution, product or service", said Ignacio M. Llorente, co-lead of the OpenNebula open-source project and Chief Executive Advisor of C12G Labs. "We are very excited with this new venture that will contribute to the future sustainability of OpenNebula. This open-source cloud-enabling technology will continue being distributed under Apache license and matured through a vibrant community. C12G has a strong commitment with OpenNebula and will contribute back to the community repository".

Cloud Computing Is Like No Other Technology Wave

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:15:00 EDT

As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did? As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programatically, leaving someone else to take care of the networking and hardware. However there's no doubt that "Cloud fatigue" is in danger of setting in as almost every existing suite of software becomes not re-engineered but merely re-branded, and give the magic C-word. Which is why my own preference is now to move to a slightly more nuanced metaphor, that of the "Resource Cloud."

Microsoft Passes Geeknet Open Source Test with Flying Colors

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:15:00 EDT

Geeknet network which includes SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Ohloh, and Freshmeat conducted a study initiated by Microsoft and found that at the end of 2009, over 82% of open source software was compatible with Windows Operating System. The results are a significant improvement from 2005 when only 72% of Open source software worked on Microsoft’s proprietary OS . In fact 23 out of the top 25 all-time-most downloaded projects on SourceForge also ran on Windows and 14 of them work exclusively on Windows. It’s not surprising that Microsoft is patting itself on its back for its headway on the OSS front.

VMware Makes Waves with Open Source Headway and Acquisition Speculations

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:15:00 EST

As a rapidly increasing number of developers are tapping into the cloud and moving away from traditional enterprise offerings, VMware is also taking appropriate steps on the home front with respect to its vCloud platform. Its cloud initiative has become more developer friendly with the recent release of software development kits (SDKs) for Java and Python intended to promote apps for its cloud interface. The company also announced that open-source client libraries and tools were available for vCloud, including the libcloud Python library and jclouds, a framework supporting Java development across clouds from multiple providers. Other opensource integration tools such as Ant, a Java build tool, and Apache Maven, a software project management tool, have been adapted for use with the vCloud API via the jclouds plugin. These libraries along with the vCloud API are meant to facilitate better interoperability with VM's newly introduced public cloud service and VMware's hosting partners.

Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun: Could They Damage Open Source?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:30:00 EST

Open source software, in brief, is software that is distributed under a specific type of license. Open source licenses attempt to ensure the code is freely distributed. The vision is of large communities of developers and users who both give and get software code freely. Note that this does not mean the code can't be "owned" per se, it just means that it has to be distributed without cost.

RhoHub: GPL and Dual Licensing

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:15:00 EST

Some people say “oh, you’re dual licensing like MySQL. So does that mean that I get to use it and not pay as I don’t with my MySQL based website?” Companies such as Google have thousands of MySQL servers running without paying license fees for it, due to a loophole in the GPL (in both GPLv2 and GPLv3) known as the “Google exception” or “ASP exception”. Specifically that access to your derivative work over http does not count as redistribution (or “conveyance” in GPLv3 parlance). It is for this reason that there Affero General Public License was created. Unfortunately for software vendors that have chosen to use the AGPL, it isn’t really accepted much as a widespread license. The Rhodes framework however is not subject to this loophole. So even with our status under a popular license such as GPLv3 closed source customers must purchase a commercial license for it.

Seven Observations On Software Maintenance and FOSS

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:00:00 EST

The November 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM) has a very interesting article by Paul Stachour and David Collier-Brown entitled “You Don’t Know Jack About Software Maintenance”. The authors argue energetically for using versioned data structures and “continuous upgrading” to improve the state of the art of software maintenance. The piece got me thinking about FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and “continuous upgrading”. Here are seven observations on FOSS software maintenance that occurred to me as I reflected on the CACM article:

Accessing Spring Beans from the BIRT Designer

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

Recently I have described methods that can be used to access Spring Beans from the BIRT Engine. These examples are intended to be illustrative and not comprehensive. In both of these examples I used the BIRT engine to retrieve Spring objects within the scripting environment. In this post I am supplying an example that illustrates how to implement your own menu in the expression builder, so Spring objects can be called within the BIRT Designer. This will allow you to test your report prior to deployment.

Drupal Tip to Enable Clean URLs on Mac OS

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:15:00 EDT

Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal website from a Mac, this a handy bit of info.

Opinion: The Real Cost of Acquisitions - the Zimbra Story

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:00 EDT

There are reports that Yahoo has put Zimbra on the block. Honestly, this came as no surprise at all to us at Zoho. I remember scratching my head when the acquisition was made; I didn't see how an enterprise/business focused open source offering like Zimbra fit with Yahoo, as a technology, as a business or strategically. Zimbra is an open source installable product offering primarily intended to be installed within medium to large organizations. Yahoo has never made an installed product in its history and is mainly focused on consumers, with an occasional foray to sell those consumer-focused applications to small businesses. Zimbra's service provider offerings made no strategic sense to Yahoo either, because Yahoo, being a service provider itself, has no interest in selling technology to other service providers like Comcast. Finally, we have been on both sides of the product vs. web-service divide, and I can assert with confidence that it is not easy to take a product and make it into a scalable web service; in fact, the main reason Zoho Mail got delayed was that it was originally written as an installable product, much like Zimbra, and we essentially rewrote it to be a web service.

Is Microsoft as Free as Open Source?

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete against open source on price. However, the difference is that with open source you get the full-powered editions. For example, Linux (e.g., CentOs), Xen (for virtualization), PostgreSQL/MySQL, Apache, Java, Tomcat, AspectJ, Lucene, Hibernate, and Eclipse are all robust, full-featured, and powerful technologies available for free to developers. The variety and the quality of product available from the open source community are just astonishing.

Orchestra Featured on SAP Ulitzer Site

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Wow, look at me, I'm famous. Oh wait, what have I done. Are people going to follow me to the grocery store with cameras now? Probably not, unless the world turns it's attention from Jon and Kate to SAP Business One. But in our little world, this is pretty cool. Orchestra and myself are featured on the SAP site at SYS-CON. Check us out on the front page.

Nokia’s Qt and the Open Road to Code

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EDT

With the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and speculation over whether a new stream of monetization is about to tarnish and dishonor the good name of open source, industry eyes are watching the open code zone more keenly than ever to try and gauge whether a new playing field is about to surface.

Linux Recovery - Tips & Tricks

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Partitions created in the hard drive enable you to install different operating systems. A partition table is positioned at the first sector (cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1, Master Boot Record) of every hard drive. This table contains the information about locations and sizes on the hard drive. Corruption in a partition table can occur due to improper system shutdown, file system corruption, software bugs and more. Once the partition table is corrupted, the user may not be able to boot a particular operating system.

Open Source Toolkit for Job Hunters

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:15:00 EDT

Unemployment is rising and competition for the few jobs that are available is becoming tougher than ever. With each open job requisition, hiring managers are receiving hundreds of résumés. How do you stand out of the crowd? What can you do to get noticed? How can you start an interesting conversation?

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Scopes Out Future for Sun's Cloud

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:15:00 EST

"At Sun, we're planning on maintaining Java's ubiquity as the number one runtime environment, backed by the world's most price performant datacenter infrastructure, all powered by Sun's cloud." That, in no uncertain terms, is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's vision for Java and stresses the new role that Cloud Computing is beginning to play at Sun.

Bluenog Has Rolled Out ICE 4.0

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:00:00 EDT

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 reportedly suited to non-technical users.

Greenplum Combines SQL & MapReduce

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:15:00 EDT

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 3.2, making it the first commercial database, the company says, to include MapReduce, the parallel computing technique pioneered by Goggle and copied by Yahoo’s Hadoop for analyzing the web.

Upstart Seeks To Overthrow OpenOffice

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:30:00 EDT

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 Linux, which includes what it calls a Word-compatible word processor, TextMaker, an Excel-compatible spreadsheet, PlanMaker, and a new PowerPoint alternative, Presentations.

Bluenog Introduces Integrated Suite of Enterprise CMS, Portal, and BI Software

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:35:00 EDT

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 integration eliminates application silos, reduces total cost of ownership, and accelerates application development. Ready integration with third-party software, including other vendors’ ECM, portal, and BI offerings, further reduces cost and increases deployment flexibility. Bluenog ICE is based on open source software, and customers receive the suite’s source code.

Using Spring as an Object Container

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:15:00 EDT

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 framework that makes it easy to work with Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs).

Alfresco Provides First Draft CMIS Implementation via Alfresco Labs

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:00 EDT

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 wish to explore the draft specification.

Black Duck Joins The Linux Foundation

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:40:00 EDT

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 software and other third-party code.

Alfresco Selected to Power Acrobat.com Content Services

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:45:00 EDT

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 technical support. By working with Alfresco, Acrobat.com will be able to deliver content services that support millions of documents and terabytes of data.

Open Source RIA Framework qooxdoo 0.8 Released

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:36:00 EDT

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 toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is open source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.

Exploring Governance in the World of Open Source

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:10:00 EDT

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, and tools for capturing business processes.

OS Hot Trends: Collaboration, SaaS and Overseas Expansion

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:07:00 EDT

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.

Cloud Computing Expo - Talend Moves into the Data Clean-Up Biz

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:07:00 EDT

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 Postal Service.

ELASTRA Delivers Cloud Portability With Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:44:00 EDT

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 through an EC2-compatible API, ELASTRA’s portability to Eucalyptus was a straightforward addition to its platform offering.

Appeals Court Overturns Injunction-Denying Open Source Ruling

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EDT

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 and get an injunction against the defendant.

Google’s Now in the Encryption Business

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:11:00 EDT

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 keys as well as Java and Python implementations, promising C++ soon.