OpenLogic Enterprise 4.6
contains many additions
to the OpenLogic
Certified Library, has a
fast new automated
installation process, and
offers more enterprise
control for updating
security patches and
versions of open source
software.
6th Sense Analytics,
Inc., a provider of
automating software
development metrics, has
announced that its
solution has been
selected by GlobalLogic,
a Vienna, VA-based global
product development
services firm with
development centers in
the U.S., India, and
Eastern Europe.
IONA Technologies, a
provider of distributed
service-oriented
architecture
infrastructure solutions
for performance-demanding
IT environments, has
announced a range of new
offerings designed to
deliver the
enterprise-quality
products, services and
support programs, and
opportunities fo
'Sun is releasing this
code to the community to
accelerate innovation
around clustered
solutions, in a world
moving quickly to
scale-out architectures.
When applied to Solaris
or other technologies,
the Solaris clustering
code is a great base to
support clustered and HA
systems innovat
The OpenJDK project has
released an early access
source code snapshot of
implementations of the
Java Module System (JSR
277) and Improved
Modularity Support (JSR
294). JSR 277 addresses
modularity from a
deployment unit
perspective, addressing
distribution format,
versioning, dependenc
Transitive Corporation, a
provider of software that
enables transportability
of applications across
multiple processor and
operating system pairs,
has released Version 1.2
of QuickTransit for Solar
is/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64
solution.
Codice Software has
released Plastic SCM 1.5,
the new version of its
SCM product. This new
release is a step ahead
in the product's
evolution and introduces
many important new
features and
enhancements.
Linspire, Inc., developer
of the Linspire
commercial and Freespire
community desktop Linux
operating systems, will
join the current efforts
to improve the ability of
OpenOffice.org users to
work with the Office Open
XML format by increasing
the interoperability
between ODF and Open XML
MuleSource, a provider of
open source
infrastructure and
integration software, has
announced that Estafet
Open, the specialist
agency supplier of IT
consultants to the
European market, has
joined the recently
launched MuleSource
Partner Alliance program.
JBoss Portal has had user
personalization of
individual portlets since
the JBoss Portal 2.0. In
JBoss Portal 2.6, we?ve
improved the granularity
of personalization and
ability to further
personalize the user
experience. Personal user
dashboards bring
personalized themes,
layouts and po
Zend Framework, a class
library available for PHP
5 Web application
development, has followed
a mission to provide
classes that are
extremely simple, yet
powerful and extensible.
'We applaud all of
today's winners and
finalists on their
achievement in winning
our Readers' Choice
Award,' said Roger
Strukhoff, Editorial
Director and Group
Publisher of SYS-CON
Media. 'Our readers live
and breathe the uniquely
compelling vision and
potential of the Linux OS
in part
Terracotta, a provider of
infrastructure software
for enterprise Java high
availability and
scalability, has
announced support for
IBM's WebSphere
Application Server (WAS)
Community Edition. With
this addition, Terracotta
2.4 can now be used to
deliver scalability and
availability for
Panelists included SOA
World Magazine
editor-in-chief Sean
Rhody (CSC), Open Source
Specialist and SYS-CON's
Industry Blogger Debbie
Moynihan (IONA),
Nexaweb's founder and CTO
and SYS-CON's Industry
Blogger Coach Wei,
ColdFusion Developer's
Journal editor-in-chief
Simon Horwith (AboutW
Ruby on Gears is a
content plus framework
built in 100% Ruby on top
of the popular Ruby on
Rails. Ruby on Gears
provides a turn-key user
& administration
environment suitable for
CRM, Project Management,
Document Management,
Corporate Intranets,
Expert Systems, Vertical
Search Engines,
Db4objects, the open
source object database,
has tied up with Prosyst,
which reportedly owns 50%
of the commercial OSGi
market, meaning
db4objects gets a crack
at a swat of automotive,
mobile carrier, house
alarm and such like
implementations.
Db4object gives widgets
persistence, which
Sun is donating storage
technologies to the
OpenSolaris community so
it can create cheap
storage solutions that,
it says, will run on
anybody's commodity
hardware - IBM's, Dell's,
HP's or its own. It's
trying to position
OpenSolaris as 'the
industry's most
comprehensive
multi-vendor st
The Jedi mind trick is a
Force power that can
influence the actions of
weak-minded sentient
beings. Vendors will
often try to apply the
Jedi mind trick in
selling silver-bullet
software solutions that
solve global warming and
stop celebrity feuding
while enabling
service-based architec
These days, executives
realize that there are
'new school' ways of
acquiring a company with
a software asset. For all
of the immeasurable
benefits it has brought
to the development
community, open source
technology has added a
complex variable to
relevant parties
calculating the M&A eq
'I have yet to see any
actual reasons for
licensing under the
GPLv3, ' Linus said. But
'if Sun really is going
to release OpenSolaris
under GPLv3, that may be
a good reason. I don't
think the GPLv3 is as
good a license as v2, but
on the other hand, I'm
pragmatic, and if we can
avoid ha
For those who aren't
familiar with Ingres, let
me outline where Ingres
came from and what the
technology is all about.
The Ingres technology has
been around for quite
some time. It dates back
to the early '70s at UC
Berkeley, and was a
project started by
Michael Stonebraker,
Eugene Won
From Jonathan Schwartz's
recent blog entry:
'Linus, First, I'm glad
you give credit to Sun
for the contributions
we've made to the open
source world, and Linux
specifically - we take
the commitment seriously.
It's why we freed
OpenOffice, elements of
Gnome, Mozilla, delivered
Java, and
Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is
Director of Embedded &
Open Source Technology at
Motorola. Prior to
Motorola, Dr. Haddad
managed the Carrier Grade
Linux and Mobile Linux
Initiatives at the Open
Source Development Lab
(now the Linux
Foundation) which
included promoting the
development and adoptio
The Group will discuss
open source trends in
systems management. Panel
participants will discuss
both the benefits and
precautions to take when
investigating open source
management software.
Nora Denzel recently
retired from HP as the
senior vice president and
general manager of HP's
over one-billion dollar
software division. At HP,
Denzel led one of the
most dramatic
turn-arounds in the
software industry by
reinvigorating HP's
OpenView and OpenCall
software product lines
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
Flex Developer Bootcamp
is an intensive, one-day
hands-on training program
that will teach Web
developers and designers
how to build Rich
Internet Application
using Flex. The one-day
bootcamp will take place
on June 24, 2007, at the
historic Roosevelt Hotel
in New York City.
Within Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP)
and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), many
companies have enjoyed a
blossoming of open source
software. By harnessing
the collective wisdom,
experiences, expertise,
and requirements, the
model has ensured that
needs have been rapidly
met
ITerating, a free
Wiki-based software guide
covering open source,
commercial, and hosted
software, has added a
Feature Matrix that
allows users to
dynamically create
customized, side-by-side
feature comparisons of
software solutions within
seconds. Users can use
the feature matrices to
Red Hat and Symantec have
wheeled out what they
call secure server
bundles for SMBs, either
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or the Red Hat
Application Stack
combined with Symantec
Critical System
Protection for both
pre-configured and
custom-configured
behavior-based host
protection and again
The server that runs this
site is running Windows
2000 and Apache for
Windows. My CMS is the
OPML editor. I use a
desktop tool to
communicate with the
editor on the server via
XML-RPC. When I save the
document locally, it
sends a copy to the
server, where it renders
it in HTML and writ
Recently, I had the
pleasure of speaking with
Anton Chuvakin, Director
of Product Management at
LogLogic. We had an
interesting discussion
about log management and
the open source project
he's involved in that
collects Windows event
logs. Here's an overview
of our chat.
When the Open Solutions
Alliance (OSA) launched
in February, there was a
lot of interest. But some
of that interest has been
industry head-scratching,
wondering about the
results and the
intentions of the OSA (ww
w.opensolutionsalliance.o
rg). Noted open source
business blogger Matt
Asay
Mike Milinkovich,
executive director of the
Eclipse Foundation, has
been kind enough to
answer some questions for
Enterprise Open Source
Magazine. Rather than
rattle off the usual ones
about the name, about why
Swing wasn't used, or how
much influence IBM still
has, Mike has fielded qu
SYS-CON Events has
created a hands-on,
immersive learning
experience for all Web
developers who want to
know the how, what, and
why of the tools and
concepts behind AJAX
(Asynchronous JavaScript
and XML), the popular
user-interface approach
to creating Rich Internet
Applications. AJAXW
The FSF left in the
tentative grandfather
clause that Novell needed
to use GPLv3 software
upgrades, revs or
programs in its SUSE
Linux operating systems
so no immediate risk of a
fork there. And Novell
says that it will move to
GPLv3 code as necessary.
However, that doesn't
mean that i
'Companies today are
running a mixture of
Linux and Windows
systems,' said Andreas
Typaldos, Chief Executive
Officer of Xandros.
'Cross-platform data
centers are a reality. To
meet evolving customer
needs, vendors need to
recognize the value of
sharing intellectual
property, developing
'The Java backlash,'
writes Bruce Eckel, 'has
been building up steam,
and we're starting to see
some fundamental shifts
because of it.' Java has
been around for 10 years
yet applets are not the
primary way that we
interact with the web.
Applets are not
ubiquitous, and everyone
got exci
Coach Wei's blog on Web
2.0, strategic value of
IT, enterprise software,
application development
and startups. I had the
chance to meet Coach Wei
today while we were
videotaping a SYS-CON.TV
Panel in New York City.
According to study by the
Burton Group, the next
disruptive technology in
the enterprise business
solutions will come from
the Google Enterprise
Applications portal
(Burton Group: The
Disrupter: Google
Enterprise Apps by Guy
Creese, Senior Analyst,
Collaboration and Content
Strategies,