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The Power of the Plan, or Why We Crashed and Burned

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:15:00 EDT

Picture this. A big company has one last chance to rise from a serious downturn. But the company has lots going for it. An unbelievably loyal customer and market following, A game changing innovation, A significant demand for exactly that innovation, A bit of money to back it. I watched customer after customer 'light up' as we told our story....

Yahoo! Cloud Computing SVP To Keynote Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users. Yahoo!'s cloud confronts technical challenges at an almost unprecedented scale - requiring tens of petabytes of storage, tens of thousands of machines, and synchronization across multiple data centers around the globe.

ESRI Recognized As Microsoft Government Partner

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:00 EDT

ESRI, the leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sector, Government Partner of the Year award. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Award recognizes partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions. This new award honors partners that have delivered innovative solutions that address the unique needs of the public sector.

Sun’s VirtualBox Grows Up

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:00 EDT

VirtualBox, the German-made, cross-platform, x86 desktop virtualization software that Sun bought last year, graduates to the server with the 3.0 release that’s supposed to be announced today.

Novell Denies It’s for Sale

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed valuation levels.”

Talend Moves to Near Real-Time

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Talend, the open source data integration ISV, has got a new near real-time data integration platform called Integration Suite RTX that offers seamless information synchronization across information systems and is supposed to bolster productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer service.

Bluenog to Contribute Back to Open Source Projects

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Following on the heels of the release of Bluenog's award-winning flagship commercial product, Bluenog ICE 4.5, the company plans to contribute back the enhancements it made to numerous open source projects during its development phase.

Bluenog Releases ICE 4.5 to Enterprise 2.0 Community

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Bluenog has announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.5, the only Enterprise 2.0 application development platform built on pre-integrated open source collaboration, content management, presentation and reporting projects. ICE 4.5 is the new release of Bluenog's award winning flagship commercial product. Its Integrated Collaborative Environment of content management, portal, and business intelligence software now includes an Enterprise Wiki, secure group calendaring features and enhanced centralized administration.

TOGAF Goes Eclipse

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

The new customizer contains all the content of TOGAF 9 in a structured and editable form, including guidelines, concepts, and checklists, as well as detailed work breakdown structures for the framework’s new and improved architecture development method (ADM).

June 30th Deadline For Mayor Mehmet Kocadon To Clean Up Bodrum

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:30:00 EDT

I am officially adding you and your company to my June 30, 2009 clean up deadline. If you and the mayor do not clean up your town and your act, you should also hang yourself with shame. How can you dare to email me with a straight face? The gullets your firm is representing are directly responsible from this garbage pile since there is no road access to many of these garbage dumps along the shore. Shame on you!

Jitterbit 3.0 Betas

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Jitterbit, the open source house that has taken on large-scale enterprise-grade data and application integration – problems like connecting on-premise and cloud applications and data – is pushing on to Jitterbit 3.0, a major release of its solution. The new version, when it gets here – it’s in beta right now – although some beta sites are reportedly already in production – will support high-volume transactions, expand connectivity options, and add new management tools and features for multi-user environments.

Oracle Buys SAP Investment

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Oracle has taken over the IP assets of Conformia Software, a lifecycle management ISV geared toward the life sciences where Oracle’s bitter rival, SAP, invested some money from its NetWeaver Fund a couple of years ago. NetWeaver was meant to invest in firms “committed to the SAP ecosystem.”

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.

Opera Turns its Browser into a Server

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:45:00 EDT

Opera Software, the nettlesome little Norwegian browser company responsible for Microsoft's current antitrust miseries with the European Commission, says it's "reinvented the web." Actually it's more a stab at reinventing the browser to make it more of the platform Netscape threatened it would be and hence heighten Opera's lowly 0.7% market share on computers.

SCO Rises Phoenix-Like

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:30:00 EDT

Like a phoenix SCO has survived IBM and Novell’s attempts to force it into liquidation and then grind it into dust ahead of any decision on its summary judgment appeal.

IBM to Business – Yes Virginia, There Is a Cloud

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Sitting in the audience at PCExpo in 2000, and hearing now head of IBM’s Software Group Steve Mills pronounce Linux real, was sort of anti-climatic for me personally. I’d been working with Steve and Irving Wladawsky-Berger and John Patrick for several months at that point and knew of open source’s ability to disrupt the technology landscape (something I had even more fun with running communications at SUSE several years later)The concept of cloud computing isn’t new – IBM, Sun and others have been talking about and dabbling in it for years.

Fedora 11 Out

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:15:00 EDT

The latest version of Red Hat’s free open source operating system, Fedora 11, is out. It’s supposed to include substantial improvements in virtualization, such as an upgraded interactive console, a redesigned virtual machine guest creation wizard and better security with SELinux support for guests. And there are desktop improvements such as automatic font and content handler installation using PackageKit, better fingerprint reader support, and an updated input method system for supporting international language users. It should boot faster and support more ATI cards.

SYS-CON White Paper: Open Source Middleware Reference Architecture

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:15:00 EDT

As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the application server to middleware for application integration, data integration, development tools, business rules management, even management and monitoring tools.

Commercial and Open Source Options: A Strategic College-Wide Initiative

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

With over 50,000 pages, Wellesley’s website serves as the primary informational source for prospective students and their families and for students, faculty, staff and alumnae. So, over a year ago, the college’s president and entire senior staff launched a strategic overhaul of their website that would reflect the college’s overall message, experience, community, and goals.

Open Source Is No "Get-Rich-Quick Scheme" But If You Get It Right...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Money is being made with Open Source. Some make spectacular money by exploiting Open Source (Google, Apple) and some things wouldn't even exist without it (Internet, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing) - so it really boils down to finding the right business model.

Using Actuate OEM Solutions to Enable Business Users to Build Reports

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:30:00 EDT

This white paper explains how the Actuate platform enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to continuously evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development, as well as how to empower users to easily create and modify their own interactive reports. By creating highly usable and scalable reports, OEMs can drive the market's adoption of their application, while reducing the burden on IT staff and OEM professional service organizations.

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.

SYS-CON White Paper: Actuate on the Open Source Foundation

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application technologies, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive. Popular web sites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and highly interactive. Download this White Paper by Actuate to see how this is important to you.

Sun Releases GlassFish Enhancements

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:15:00 EDT

Sun Microsystems has announced several technology updates to the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the most complete, open source, high-performance Web application platform. The GlassFish Portfolio is comprised of leading open source technologies, including OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, Sun GlassFish Web Stack and GlassFish – the industry's most downloaded application server. Additionally, Sun announced early access of GlassFish v3 containing a full preview of the forthcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) specification. To purchase the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, visit: http://www.sun.com/glassfish.

SYS-CON White Paper: Putting the Green in Green IT

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:15:00 EDT

This white paper from Univa UD discusses how distributed computing delivers dramatic cost savings, as well as Green IT benefits, by leveraging existing resources and curbing data center growth.

Bluenog Launches Higher Education Initiative

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, announced today it will deliver offerings specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the higher education sector. The company will extend Bluenog ICE(TM), its integrated suite of content management, portal development and business intelligence software, to interface with key educational support systems such as Sungard Banner, Resource25, Sakai, Moodle and Blackboard.

SYS-CON White Paper: Top Pharma Picks Univa UD’s UniCluster

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:15:00 EDT

In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to Univa UD’s UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs.

LynuxWorks and Avidyne Take Off

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:00:00 EDT

LynuxWorks has announced that Avidyne has selected LynxOS-178 as the embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) for Avidyne's next generation Entegra Release 9 Integrated Flight Deck. LynxOS-178 is a commercially available operating system and that enables manufacturers of DO-178B systems to get to market faster and with lower overall costs and risks associated with certifying FAA safety-critical flight systems. LynxOS-178 is a known certifiable RTOS package that allows avionics customers to achieve the highest degree of assurance and DO-178B certification to meet unique FAA requirements.

Using Open Source SOA in an Enterprise Deployment

Sun, 31 May 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Many companies are turning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to use their existing IT assets in new ways. Application functionality is made available as a service, available to all applications that use that particular capability. Business managers know that an SOA is a key technology in business integration, and can help increase agility, improve customer satisfaction, and increase responsiveness.

Ingres Announces Combined Open Source Stack for Data-Rich Business Apps

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Ingres Corporation has announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a fully pre-assembled bundle that combines Ingres Database with Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is available immediately as a 90-day evaluation at http://esd.ingres.com.

Black Duck & Microsoft Cut Deal

Fri, 22 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Microsoft is going to feed projects from its CodePlex open source project hosting site automatically into Black Duck’s open source KnowledgeBase repository. Black Duck’s software keeps track of the use of open source components in mixed-source development projects. The CodePlex projects will also be searchable through Black Duck’s Koders.com search engine.

Talend to Compete Against a Cipher

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Talend, the open source company with the data integration software, is moving up-market with a new enterprise-grade Integration Suite MPx that won’t be open sourced. The massively parallelized widgetry will pit Talend against the ultra-secretive ETL house Ab Initio, which is notorious for not letting its software be seen by anyone other than NDA-sworn users, refusing interviews with Gartner and not returning phone calls.

UNESCO and Sun Microsystems Announce Joint Education Effort

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:30:00 EDT

In an effort to support social and economic development, UNESCO and Sun Microsystems** signed a Collaboration Agreement on Monday. At the signing ceremony, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, Abdul Waheed Khan, and Executive Vice President and Chairman, Europe, APAC and Emerging Markets for Sun Microsystems, Crawford Beveridge, outlined details of the initiative. The agreement recognizes open source technologies as key to increase access to information, communications technologies and ICT skills training in under-served communities throughout the world.

Qt Software Opens Its Source Code Repositories

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:45:00 EDT

Qt Software has completed its plans to release the Qt source code repositories to the developer community. This news opens the door to software engineers who want to help guide and shape the future development of Qt with code contributions, translations, examples, and other offerings.

IBM & Novell Press for SCO’s Demise

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:08:00 EDT

IBM and Novell have piled on the bankruptcy trustee’s move last week to put SCO into liquidation, a move made the day before the 10th Circuit heard SCO’s appeal asking for the summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell to be overturned. Timing is everything but it’s unclear why IBM and Novell waited so long unless they didn’t want to look like bullies.

NYU Langone Medical Center Deploys Bluenog ICE

Tue, 12 May 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Bluenog has announced that NYU Langone Medical Center has deployed the portal development and enterprise components of its flagship product, Bluenog ICE. NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. NYU Langone is using Bluenog ICE to develop and implement its next generation informational web resource center that is utilized by the Medical Center's 14,000 employees, physicians, researchers and medical students. Bluenog ICE is an "Integrated Collaborative Environment" of content management (ECM or CMS), portal and business intelligence (BI) software.

SugarCRM’s CEO Quits; Augustin Becomes Interim CEO

Mon, 11 May 2009 09:15:00 EDT

Larry Augustin, who hasn’t had a honest job since VA Linux hit the wall and he took his IPO winnings and turned venture capitalist, is now interim CEO of SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM ISV. The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other opportunities, the company said Thursday, destination unknown.

Microsoft, Yahoo & Open Source

Fri, 08 May 2009 12:00:00 EDT

The watchtowers trained on the latest round of Microsoft-Yahoo talks on a search and advertising partnership report that they have finally become “meaningful” in the words of one source and could produce an actual contract in a few weeks. AllThingsDigital, the key observation post, claims that the deal they’re talking about has Yahoo taking over search and recession-hit display ad sales and Microsoft building the search and display ad-serving technology for both of them. It also says Yahoo would be able to fire Microsoft if Microsoft screws up.

Risiken rund um Cloud Computing

Tue, 05 May 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Cloud Computing bietet den Vorteil, über einen einzigen Provider eine Vielzahl an IT-Kapazitäten als Service ins Netz auszulagern. Somit hat es das Potenzial, zu einem der größten Trends in der IT-Landschaft zu werden. Dennoch äußern viele Unternehmen Bedenken zum Thema Sicherheit und Datenschutz in der „Wolke“. Diese sind laut Network-Security-Experten Clavister jedoch unnötig.

Industrial Defender Announces Partnership with InGuardians

Mon, 04 May 2009 08:30:00 EDT

Industrial Defender has announced it has formed a partnership with InGuardians Inc., a leading cyber security consultancy practice, to offer cyber security vulnerability assessment services for the Smart Grid. Under terms of the agreement, Industrial Defender and InGuardians will partner to assess and secure Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for Smart Grid environments in a vendor agnostic fashion.

JCP Program Unveils 2009 Star Spec Leads

Sat, 02 May 2009 12:45:00 EDT

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office (PMO) has announced the 2009 Star Spec Leads, distinguishing top Spec Lead performance and rewarding exceptional service to the community. The Star Spec Leads Program recognizes JCP Spec Leads who consistently showcase their value through high quality specifications and establishing best practices, including transparency and mentoring others.

Thoughts on How to Select Between COTS and Open Source

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Organizations continue to wrestle with the COTS vs. Open Source question and continually look for guidance on how to select one vs. the other. Many organizations make the frequent mistake of basing the decision on the capital investment cost or up front investment with no thought to any other criteria. While cost is an important factor, there are other areas that organizations should consider as part of their selection process. These include:

SYS-CON White Paper: Securing Your Online Data Transfer with SSL

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:45:00 EDT

This guide from thawte will help you understand SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their transactions are safe.

SYS-CON White Paper: Server-Gated Cryptography

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

In this white paper from thawte, learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included.

SYS-CON White Paper: Secure MS IIS Server with thawte Digital Certificate

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security. This guide from thawte will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MSIIS) web server with a Thawte digital certificate.

SYS-CON White Paper: Extended Validation SSL Certificates

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:30:00 EDT

Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. In this white paper from thawte, find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use of a green address bar in the latest high-security web browsers.

Black Duck Software Grows 42%

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:00 EDT

With 42 percent growth in bookings performance and 27 percent growth in services for the Q1 2009 period, Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, is benefiting from growing interest in -- and adoption of -- open source technology, the company reported today.

Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Cloud Computing

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:30:00 EDT

The Cloud Security Alliance has released it's inaugural whitepaper called "Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing". The paper is being presented today at RSA outlines key issues and provides advice for both Cloud Computing customers and providers within 15 strategic domains. It is now available on the Cloud Security Alliance website at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance.

Certify Your Software Integrity with thawte Code Signing Certificates

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:30:00 EDT

This guide from thawte will show you how Code Signing Certificates are used to secure code that can be downloaded from the Internet. You will also learn how these certificates operate with different software platforms.

SYS-CON White Paper: Secure Apache Web Server with thawte Digital Certificate

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:30:00 EDT

This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.