Open Source News Desk

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:45:00 EST

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

SYS-CON.TV To Look Today "Under the Hood" of Cloud Computing

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:30:00 EST

This coming Tuesday, December 8, at 2:00PM EST, SYS-CON.TV will be broadcasting live from its 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests will be looking “under the hood” of the fastest-growing new trend in all of Enterprise IT – Cloud Computing.

Oracle Says ‘No Compromise’ on MySQL: Reuters

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:30:00 EST

Oracle has told Reuters that the New York Post story Friday claiming it had offered the European Commission a deal on MySQL is a bunch of baloney. The Post, quoting two unidentified sources, said Oracle proposed to “quarantine” MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing in Brussels Thursday.

Oracle Offers the EC a Deal: NY Post

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Oracle has offered to cordon off MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing set for next Thursday, according to the New York Post. The paper, quoting two unidentified sources, describes the vague Oracle proposal as a “separate entity” that would put a “firewall” between MySQL and the rest of Oracle and says it could involve a separate board.

Sun Microsystems Brings Teleportation to VirtualBox

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:37:00 EST

Some great news came out of Sun Microsystems yesterday with the release of VirtualBox 3.1.o. This is Sun’s virtualization platform, which has been at the core of many of Sun’s newest technologies. What is great about VirtualBox, aside from being a professional quality hypervisor based virtualization solution, is that it is open source.

US Senate Pushes EC on Oracle-Sun Merger

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

The United States Senate waded into the Oracle-Sun imbroglio Tuesday. Fifty-nine senators from both sides of the aisle led by one-time presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass) and perennial presidential pretender Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter to the European Commission asking it to wrap up its investigation of the Oracle-Sun merger as soon as possible pleading Sun's precarious financial position and its inability to continue to employ thousands of people endlessly under current conditions. The senators - there are only a hundred of them - tried reasoning proportion with the EC saying, "It is our understanding the Commission is concerned about competition in the database software market. However, we have been informed by Sun Microsystems that their subsidiary, which competes in this specific market, generates only €17 million in revenue and that the same market has competitors with capitalizations of tens of billions of Euros."

Google Wave

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:00:00 EST

Looks like Google sent out another bunch of invitations (2620) for Wave & since most of my friends are already on Wave, I thought why not give it away. So, in case you want one, just drop a comment (don’t forget to protect it against spamming by substituting @ with [at] & the [...]

Adobe Cans Another 9% of its Workforce

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

Adobe is cutting another 680 full-time jobs worldwide, around 9% of its pre-Omniture workforce, to align its costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and “the realities of the business environment,” according to an SEC filing. It previously said it would cut 9% of Omniture’s 1,200 people when that deal closed last month. The company cut 600 people last December. Adobe expects the latest move to cost it a $65 million-$71million restructuring charge, including around $17 million-$19 million related to the consolidating leased facilities. It says it will incur additional restructuring expenses relating to Omniture’s operations as part of the total acquisition price.

Sun To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Blames EC

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Sun said late Tuesday that it will be forced to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide over the next 12 months because of “the delay in the closing of the acquisition of the company,” laying the blame squarely at the doorstep of the European Commission and its prolonged investigation into whether Oracle should be allowed to acquire the Sun-owned MySQL open source database.

SOA World Magazine "Readers' Choice Awards" Voting Is Now Open

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON's SOA World Magazine announced today that the 2009 voting in its annual SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the "SOA in the Cloud" track at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo. To vote for your favorite SOA products and services today - don't put it off, voting takes just a few seconds.

Brad Windecker Launches "Open Source for Small Business" Topic on Ulitzer

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Brad Windecker launched today "Open Source for Small Business" topic on Ulitzer. A topic for open source software specific to the small business marketplace. Small and midsize companies can today take advantage of the maturity in open source applications. This topic will collect stories that relate to both the open source community and small business.

Open Source Groupware Partner Summit Approaching

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:00 EDT

This is an update on the upcoming (and first ever) Open-Xchange Partner Summit. Open-Xchange offers open source collaboration services as both an on-premise solution and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) using exactly the same source code -- enabling SaaS providers and on-premise channel partners to join forces and leverage their respective strengths. System integrators and resellers can partner with service providers to offer hosted Open-Xchange to their customer base without any upfront investments to set up a complex and secure hosting infrastructure. SaaS providers can benefit from resellers' and system integrators' local and regional customer base and in-depth technical and consulting expertise.

Novell Asks Appeals Court To Reverse its Decision on SCO

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Novell Tuesday asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc its decision overturning the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell and sending SCO’s suit against Novell back to Utah for trial. En banc would mean all of the God knows how many judges on the circuit’s bench not just the three who heard it the first time through, a situation usually reserved for unusually complex cases or cases of unusual significance. Novell’s nine-page petition attempts to invest the case with grave significance but what are the odds that the 10th Circuit will throw out a unanimous 54-page decision by three of its jurists written by one of the finest mind on the bench, Michael McConnell, a constitutional law scholar who just stepped down to be director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School? Figures suggest it’s a rare thing indeed and rarer still to win. Anyway, this is first-year law school kinda of stuff. Judge McConnell found that the Utah district court ignored a dispute over facts that should have been sent to jury to decide, not resolved by an “inappropriate,” “improper” and “premature” summary judgment. You can’t have a summary judgment when there are conflicting facts.

OpSource Unveils the ‘True Cloud’

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:00:00 EDT

To most who practice it, technology is a religion. So it will come as no surprise that one amongst us now claims to have discovered the “true Cloud,” the Cloud beyond simple development, the Cloud that brings us to the nirvana of serious application deployment and production via the cloud. OpSource, our modern day St. Helena, says the true Cloud, which it’s unveiling as we speak, combines the availability, flexibility and community of the consumer cloud with the more ineffable security, performance and control that the Fortune 1000 demand. Like any viable religion, it has a little something for everybody.

OpenXava 3.1.4: Open Source Framework to Develop WebSphere Portal Applications

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EDT

OpenXava 3.1.4 is an open source framework to rapid development of Portlet Enterprise applications deployable in WebSphere Portal 6.1. With OpenXava, you only need to write your model, POJOs and Java annotations. You do not need to write the view, and the controller (for CRUD, printing, etc) is reused. And from that you'll have an application for CRUD, report generation in PDF, export to Excel, searching, sorting, validations etc. You only need to write a simple Java class, no XMLs, no JSPs and no code generation.

Open-Xchange Brings Sociability to Collaboration

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EDT

With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.

FOSS To Pressure Washington for Greater Adoption

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:48:00 EDT

There's now such a thing as Open Source for America.org (OSA), a consortium started by a large swat of open source commercializers to push their products on the federal government. They figure they've got a free-spending friend in Washington living in the White House that they might as well use.

Adobe's Open Source Initiatives

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. The new efforts will help content owners extend their online media efforts, as they look to create new business opportunities and monetization strategies for publishing on the Web.

Jahia Takes Top Marks at Virgin America

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EDT

Jahia North America, the leader in open source web content integration software, today announced that Virgin America has selected and implemented Jahia to power its intranet, giving hundreds of users online access to personalized and dynamically generated content and documents.

Maxworks To Exhibit at SOA World Conference & Expo, June 22-23, New York

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Maxworks to exhibit at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2009 East. The 15th International SOA World Conference will take place June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. Maxworks is a leading opensource SOA Solutions Provider. Maxworks combines Java, opensource technologies, service oriented architecture (SOA) and Incremental delivery methods to produce solutions for our clients.The company's SOA solutions realize high value business synergies that run on license free Opensource middleware. Incremental delivery of SOA solutions reduces software development risks. Maxworks' SOA Road Map, Training, and Software Development services used in concert, can help clients overcome the overhead caused by SOA.

Forrester Report: Open Source Paves Way for Enterprise IT

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EDT

This report finds that Open Source has become the hidden backbone of the software industry, and leads to a paradigm change in enterprise IT.

Likewise Closes $10 Million Funding Round

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Coming off its record year, Likewise Software is announcing a $10 million funding round. Earlier this year, the company reported 20,000 organizations using its open source software and revenues increasing by 500 percent year-over-year. As corporate networks became more diverse with increasing numbers of Mac and Linux users, Likewise Software ensures that Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac computers can be integrated securely into a company’s IT infrastructure.

CohesiveFT Adds Internal Eucalyptus Cloud Deployment

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:00:00 EDT

CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the leader in onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures, today announced a technology preview of Elastic Server deployment to Eucalyptus private clouds. Elastic Server Personal Edition users can now dynamically deploy custom servers to a private Eucalyptus cloud infrastructure hosted on their own network. This technology preview comes on the heels of the release of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition which includes a technology preview for the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by the open-source Eucalyptus system.

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.

Clear Toolkit 4: The Road Map

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: 1. Offer data syncrhonization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 2. Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 3. Release documentation on classes from Clear component library (clear.swc) - May 2009. 4. Offer a solution for Flex-based portals - May 2009 5. Open source most of the components of Clear Toolkit - August 2009

Google Opens Half-Way House for Code

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Google has opened up a site called Google Code Labs, not to be mistaken for Google Code or Google Labs, where developers can now go to get involved with potential products in their early days, familiarize themselves with APIs still being formulated and presumably build off them while Google's own engineers "explore ideas" and figure out if the stuff's a keeper or not without embarrassing the company with a public beta.

Yahoo & Microsoft Talking Again: Reports

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Quoting unnamed sources the Dow Jones All Things Digital blog reported Friday that Yahoo and Microsoft have started sounding each other out again about a search and ad partnership and said Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz met the week before last.

ParaScale Delivers Next Breakthrough in Cloud Storage Software

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, announced today at SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo the immediate global availability of ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software. As a software-only solution that can be downloaded from the web and applied to any standard Linux platform, PCS enables hundreds of commodity servers to be clustered together to act as a file repository with massive capacity and parallel throughput. PCS is being used by leading enterprise and service provider organizations including Blue Coat Systems, Carpathia Hosting, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Stanford Genome Technology Center. Additionally, technology providers including Vembu Technologies and South River Technologies have embraced ParaScale’s Cloud Storage software to extend the value of their offerings

Citrix Receiver For the iPhone Hits the App Store

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:45:00 EDT

There are some restrictions in this Tech Preview so be sure to check out the iPhone Community pages we have set up for requirements, tips and forum discussions. If you want to set up a separate test environment to test your apps over 3G we have a preconfigured XenApp Virtual Appliance in Amazon EC2 that you can copy and set up in 15 minutes.

Greenplum Claims Breakthrough in Data Loading

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Greenplum claims to have created the lightening-fast flow of data into its database for large-scale analytics and data warehousing. It says it’s getting loading speeds of over 4TB an hour in production with a negligible impact on concurrent database operations.

Christophe So Launches ERP Journal on Ulitzer

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Free Softwares overtakes proprietary softwares on the management softwares market. Open ERP V5 takes an unquestionable lead on its larger competitors. Two very thorough studies have compared Open ERP with its proprietary and free competitors, showing an advance of several years for Open ERP: The ERP Open Source white paper by Smile: A study carried out over six months by experts of Smile. Evaluation-Matrix.Com: A community approach with a pragmatic evaluation of the management software company. One should expect exponential growth and shining out comes for Open ERP in the future.

3Tera Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EDT

3tera’s global network of data center partners puts the power of cloud computing where you need it. Or, you can install AppLogic in your own data center, for the most flexible IT infrastructure available. 3Tera, Inc. is the innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. 3Tera offers the AppLogic™, the first commercially available grid operating system and cloud computing platform that completely removes the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure.

Yakov Fain Launches Clear Toolkit Magazine on Ulitzer

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Yakov Fain, one of the top 3 Ulitzer bloggers, launched a new magazine on Ulitzer as a one stop shop for all Flex/AIR/Java developers who decided to use open source Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications.

Xandros Launches Turnkey Software for a Netbook Experience on Mobile Devices

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:00:00 EST

Xandros announced a turnkey software solution with a new user experience for ARM technology-based netbooks and other low-powered Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). The Xandros solution enables mobile OEM vendors and communications carriers to bring desktop computing to mobile devices with fast boot and long battery life on 3G networking. The Debian Linux-based system also enables mobile phone OEMs to create new products incorporating a rich set of user capabilities.

Funambol and a la Mobile Enhance Android Open Source Sync Software

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST

Funambol and a la Mobile announced the availability of enhanced open source sync software for Android. a la Mobile has extended Funambol's SyncML-based Android client to sync additional PIM data, pictures, music and videos. Furthermore, a la Mobile is contributing the enhanced Android client software to the Funambol open source community. Funambol is ensuring that its open source mobile sync server works with the new Android client. The open source client and server software enable Android handsets to sync contacts, calendars, pictures, music and videos with any backend data source and desktop.

Black Duck Gets More Money, New CEO

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:00:00 EST

Black Duck Software, the open source tracking start-up, took in $9.5 million in new money on Monday, and then on Tuesday it got a new CEO, Tim Yeaton, once senior VP of worldwide marketing at Red Hat, an architect of its JBoss acquisition, and more recently chief marketing officer of EqualLogic until Dell bought the joint last year and made him VP of its Nashua Design Center.

Novell Announces Open Source Implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:45:00 EST

The Mono Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, announced the availability of Moonlight 1.0, an open source project that provides Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content. According to the company, Moonlight provides the platform Linux users need to use Silverlight and Windows Media content. In combination with Banshee, a Novell-sponsored project to produce an open source media player, it is part of a complete multimedia solution on Linux.

Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

Red Hat announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with improved server performance, high availability, clustering, installation and configuration.

Comodo Code Signing Certificate Supports Mozilla Standards

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EST

Comodo CA announced that its code-signing certificates enable developers to sign extensions or "add-ons" for installer modules using Mozilla Foundation standards. Comodo code-signing certificates enable developers to sign Mozilla extensions or "Add-ons" for a wide variety of different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla applications recognize XPIs as "trusted" when they are signed with a Comodo Code-Signing certificate.

MySQL Boss To Follow Co-Founders Out the Door

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:30:00 EST

Sun has lost the stickiness test. MySQL boss Marten Mickos, the operation’s former CEO and senior VP of Sun’s database group since its acquisition almost exactly one year ago, is following co-founder and MySQL’s original developer Monty Widinius out the door. Sun lost the open source database’s other co-founder David Axmark a few months ago.