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: 355 |
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: 396 |
By Virtualization News Desk  Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Fl... Aug. 24, 2008 06:20 AM Reads: 16,980 Replies: 2 |
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: 273 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Jitterbit has announced the availability of Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise, which includes new capabilities, scalability and management tools. With this new release, organizations have the ability to solve integration challenges between legacy, enterprise, and on-demand applications and data... Aug. 18, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 502 |
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: 536 |
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: 430 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Microsoft is set to launch a developer program aimed at local companies creating applications using the open-source model. Microsoft recently announced it will open an open-source "interoperability" lab in the Asia Pacific.
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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: 651 |
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: 577 |
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: 579 |
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: 564 |
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: 313 |
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: 287 |
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: 322 |
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: 348 |
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: 1,230 |
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: 1,525 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk ApacheCon US 2008, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will hold this year?s event in New Orleans on November 3-7, 2008. ApacheCon brings together users, developers, vendors, and speakers to discuss groundbreaking Open Source practices and issues, with upda... Jul. 8, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,318 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Europe's antitrust chief Neelie Kroes, who has now taken on the role of open standards evangelist, gave a speech at OpenForum Europe the other day recommending that business and government adopt 'open standards.' 'Open standards' in Neelie's mouth is code for 'open source' or at least ... Jun. 19, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 4,455 Replies: 1 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Likewise Software announced that it has been named as category award-winning finalist in the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. Red Hat selected six finalists in the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards, designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Re... Jun. 19, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 1,381 |
By Maureen O'Gara  SNORT creator Sourcefire, one of the few publicly owned open source companies, has rejected an unsolicited $7.50-a-share offer, a total of roughly $187.4 million cash, from privately held Barracuda Networks, claiming it undervalues the enterprise security company despite the 13% premiu... Jun. 18, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 4,314 |
By Maureen O'Gara  EnterpriseDB co-founder and CEO Andy Astor has stepped aside so Ed Boyajian, brought in from Red Hat, can take the four-year-old company to the proverbial next level, they said. Boyajian has been running Red Hat's North American sales under one title or another for the last six years a... Jun. 9, 2008 09:30 PM Reads: 2,307 Replies: 2 |
By Theresa Bui-Friday  Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today's fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years - whether internal or external - are at least 50% open source software (... May. 23, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 9,028 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk 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 Pr... May. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 3,519 |
By Michael Anderson  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 in... May. 1, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,936 |
By Virtualization News Desk  The Group discussed open source trends in systems management. Panel participants discussed both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. Nora Denzel recently retired from Hewlett Packard as the senior vice president and general manager of... Jan. 15, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 7,351 |
By CMS News Desk In corporate environments, being able to integrate with existing systems is of extreme importance. Due to its nature, the open source development methodology forces software developers to be prepared to interoperate and integrate with whatever is already there. This is a big difference... Jan. 8, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 6,169 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk The success of open source software has been placing pressure on the business models of proprietary software vendors. In response, many software vendors have shifted from a paid-for license model to an open source business model. This presentation will explore the emerging trend of pro... Jan. 8, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 8,782 |
By Virtualization News Desk Today's identity management systems help organizations gain control over identity information in the enterprise, however, these systems are silos - and despite industry standards, there is very little interoperability. The Bandit project provides open-source identity services that redu... Jan. 7, 2008 12:45 AM Reads: 7,571 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk While enterprise open source vendors continue to debate the definition of 'open,' customers are listening. Not because they care as much about what open source business model a particular vendor uses but because our debates give them reason to be confused and to consider the FUD that i... Jan. 7, 2008 12:30 AM Reads: 10,161 |
By Vinod Pabba  When it comes to Content Management Solutions (CMS), 'one size' does not fit all. When considering open source CMS for a real-world client experience, it's necessary to focus on the project needs, evaluate various CMS solutions in the context of these project needs, and to explore expe... Jan. 3, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 8,011 Replies: 1 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk ILOG announced ILOG JViews 8, the latest version of ILOG?s award-winning Java-based visualization suite that enhances the creation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and desktop applications for supervision and monitoring. ILOG JViews 8.1 introduces a new presentation layer for the Ec... Dec. 14, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 7,951 |
By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Sun Microsystems, Inc and the NetBeans community announced the availability of the award-winning NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). NetBeans 6.0 IDE extends support beyond Java by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript and the Ruby language, includin... Dec. 14, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 8,770 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Open source has made significant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments and... Dec. 13, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 7,230 |
By Virtualization News Desk Today's Web service providers must understand Quality of Service, filtering techniques and implement QOS and access list filters on their networks. A proper QOS and filtering design helps to avoid network bottlenecks caused by worm and virus infections, sudden spikes in traffic, broadb... Dec. 13, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 5,374 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk SOA is becoming the prevailing choice for IT enterprises and the success of this transition to an SOA is based on quality of the SOA governance solution. This session will highlight why SOA governance is crucial for the successful transition to SOA. It will also discuss how to build po... Dec. 13, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 7,886 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk According to Gartner, 80 percent of data transfer is done via FTP. A time-consuming and unreliable process born from the mainframe, FTP regularly impacts e-commerce and supply chain orders and processes, unnecessarily disrupting business and jeopardizing revenue. ESB alleviates the lat... Dec. 13, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 6,605 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world open source SOA implementations, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of: How to implement large XML Schema-dr... Dec. 13, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 6,906 |
By SOA World Magazine News Desk Apache Tuscany provides an open source services infrastructure for building SOA. It's based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different langua... Dec. 13, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 5,323 |
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