Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don't work. In this case it's Google trying to undermine Facebook. And I don't think it's going to work. What would be exciting and uplifting, a real game-changer -- Internet companie

JasperSoft Corporation has announced the general availability of JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite version 2.1, an upgrade that makes the benefits of BI more accessible to more users. Version 2.1 is specifically focused on enhancing usability and end-user functionality, delivering

A South Korean ISV called Digito.com that created Soft Messenger, the first Korean instant messaging program, has filed suit against Microsoft seeking $32.7 million in damages, according to the English language local publication Digital Chosun. The ISV is evidently building its case ar

VMS, or rather its modern avatar OpenVMS, is turning 30 and - having been gussied up with open source tools like Apache, XML, Java and JavaBeans - still claims to run 300,000 systems worldwide in the financial community, hospitals, manufacturing and lotteries. HP, its latest owner, can

Microsoft, which has decided not to appeal the Court of First Instance's September 17 ruling in favor of the European Commission and its 2004 antitrust order against the company, has also agreed to bend its terms to the open source business model and slash the price of its server commu

Evidently Novell should be afraid - very afraid - because Canonical with its Ubuntu distribution, Dell's little playmate, the Linux Dell's pre-loading on a few of its PCs, clearly has designs on Novell's place in line behind Red Hat, the Linux leader. On Thursday, the Ubuntu world trad

It is time to unite the community behind the standard, universal format for office suites and distance themselves from Ecma TC45 and DIS 29500. The participation of Gnome in Ecma TC45's apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS and all in the community

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals into the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and, hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a distributed computing

Zenoss has released version 2.1 of Zenoss Core, an open source IT management software product on Sourceforge.net. The new version extends both its network management and application management capabilities with network visualization features and native management of Java-based applicat

Openbravo, the company with the open source SME ERP solution, has tied up with rPath to create a software appliance using rPath's rBuilder, Openbravo's first commercial product. An appliance should simplify deploying and maintaining the software in both physical and virtual environment

Earlier this year, the 451 Group reported that the Big Four systems management vendors (BMC, CA, HP, and IBM) were ripe for a shakeup, and had been for some time. Poised at the top of a healthy, lucrative market, it hardly seems likely that these market leaders could be threatened by n

CorraTech has started an open source project called OpenSuite under the new GPL 3 license dedicated to the integration of open source applications. It describes it as the 'glue required to make independently developed open source applications act as though they were designed to operate

The GNU Project has released version 0.96(.1) of GNU Classpath, an incomplete free implementation of the core Java class libraries. The main feature of this release is the new experimental GStreamer peer arising from the work of Mario Torre on his Google Summer of Code project. This pr

Talend has announced the availability of Talend Open Studio version 2.2, as well as the Activity Monitoring Console /Personal Edition, delivering the benefit of a single console for all integration jobs. The release of the new and updated applications comes at the one year anniversary

OpenLogic has launched a free web site called OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) where enterprise developers can go to find, research and download open source software that carries OpenLogic's seal of approval assuring them it's safe for enterprise use. The company says searches on Sourceforge

Pentaho Corp. has announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides the general availability of new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling business users to cre

'Until now, most of our customers have been hardcore Ajax developers. Now, users can simply drag and drop our components into their applications using Dreamweaver,' said Andre Charland, co-founder of Nitobi, Inc, and regular AJAXWorld Conference & Expo speaker, as he announced today th

Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 is now available to customers worldwide. Open Enterprise Server 2 features full 64-bit support of software services previously found only on NetWare, along with storage management enhancements and NetWare virtualization. Novell Open Enterprise Server com

The ability that I will have to debug code within Visual Studio 2008 will be unprecedented. Why? Because now instead of having to use third party tools to dissasemble Microsoft libraries so that I can get a deep stack trace and figure out exactly where something blew up so I can find o

Microsoft says it's going to release the source code for the .NET Framework libraries with the .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 release later this year.nThe code will be released under the read-only Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL) generally used only for debugging. Not exactly open

This article is one of several intended to address Linux runtime application hardening. When we talk about Linux hardening, we typically mean runtime application hardening to improve application reliability, leading to expected and predictable execution despite undesirable operating co

Funambol, the mobile open source software company, will begin inviting consumers to join the new myFUNAMBOL portal to access free mobile e-mail, contacts, and calendars on everyday cell phones. myFUNAMBOL also provides the first over-the-air mobile contacts application for the new iPho

SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program, widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by the industry's vendors, customers, and users, as well as by t

Scalix, a Linux e-mail, calendaring and messaging company, has released Scalix 11.2, with new features to support hosted multi-tenant environments, the latest Linux servers, and enhanced Microsoft Outlook facilities for mobile devices. Scalix 11.2 allows application service providers (

Concurrent's NightStar LX debugging and analysis toolkit is now available for two additional Linux distributions - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and openSUSE 10.2 from Novell. NightStar is an integrated Qt-based GUI tool set for developing and tuning time-critical 32-bit and 64-bit applic

Interface21 has partnered with Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project, to develop the Spring Tool Suite. This new Spring-specific tool solution will build on Eclipse and Mylyn to dramatically reduce the complexity of enterprise Java application development and main

MySQL AB has plans to optimize the MySQL Enterprise Server for the SAP NetWeaver platform. MySQL and SAP AG also announced that the sales and support of the MaxDB database will revert back to SAP, in order to unify the product's development, distribution, and support under one organiza

MySQL AB has announced that the Swedish National Police are implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software (OSS) infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL, and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently being migrated and all futur

An international development team has announced the first official release of ProjectPier. Based on widely accepted technologies like PHP and MySQL, ProjectPier offers an open source collaboration solution that can be installed on any shared hosting server within minutes.

A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start new open source projects.

Open source software continues to gain momentum worldwide. Low costs, high quality, and unprecedented flexibility make more and more IT decision makers favor open source over traditional packaged software. Access to bug tracking systems, development team discussions, test approaches -

From a commercial open source company's point-of-view, open source is ideally the ultimate in 'grass roots' marketing where people learn about the project by word-of-mouth and where they volunteer their time and effort, resulting in a vibrant community that benefits the company in many

The OpenVZ project has announced availability of its operating system (OS) server virtualization software as a modified version of the CentOS 4.4 bootable Live CD so that users can test drive the OpenVZ software without changes to their computer or installing anything on their hard dis

Those swinging doors that grace the office of the head of marketing at Red Hat have slapped another exiting executive in the fanny. Old-time Unix veteran Tim Yeaton, senior VP of marketing, has been replaced by Michael Chen, seconded over from Red Hat China, where he was general manage

OpenLogic Exchange is designed for enterprises that want to use open source software. Today, enterprise developers must comb through massive repositories trying to find the short list of open source products that are viable and appropriate for their enterprise needs. Standard rating sc

OpenAjax Alliance, an organization dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable AJAX-based Web technologies, has revealed new initiatives for secure mashups and mobile AJAX, as well as a new white paper on AJAX security.

OpenAjax Alliance has revealed new initiatives for secure mashups and mobile AJAX, as well as a new white paper on AJAX security. As AJAX and mashups continue to gain widespread acceptance under the Web 2.0 umbrella, it is critical for organizations to understand these threats and to a

A year ago I wrote 'Howells Ten Rules for Open Source Marketing.' At Alfresco we believed that open source was different and needed a different marketing model. Geoffrey Moore was at the root of our thinking when he wrote about 'Darwin and the Demon' and markets being ripe for disrupti

IBM has announced 'a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.' In other words, a rival to Microsoft Office. Symphony is available starting yesterday.

In the early days the sheer novelty of open source software being free had a certain allure. But actually using it meant dealing with myriad technical and support issues - more than enough to make the price tag of commercial enterprise software worthwhile. Fortunately, that's changed.