'Trolltech's deep understanding of open source software and its strong technology assets will enable both Nokia and others to innovate on our device platforms while reducing time-to-market,' said Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President, Devices, Nokia, as Nokia and Trolltech ASA today an

Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-based middleware. A bet

There is plenty of discussion about virtualization, but who does it really benefit? How can enterprises adopt virtualization technologies to address real business problems? Is virtualization just another consolidation technology? How are other businesses using virtualization? Is there

As computer grids are becoming more wide spread in commercial data centers, the bottlenecks in application performance move from raw processing to searching, storing and retrieving the data. In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) technology solve this fundamental problem by acting as super-efficie

There has been much speculation about the security posture of virtualized environments. One identified vulnerability is the 'hypervisor' threat in which a hacker can break out of a guest OS and onto the host OS of a server. How great a danger is the hypervisor threat? What security bar

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature, and success of many important aspects of the architecture, es

The ink was still drying on Sun's billion-dollar deal to buy the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and put money in the high-end open source Postgres company Greenplum, evidently what Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz meant last week when he said 'and we ai

The iPhone and Google Android platform are undisputedly transforming the mobile industry by bringing smartphone capabilities to the masses. They are also making for enticing new mobile platforms for developing and deploying new types of mobile apps and services for mass market users. Y

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While the Internet brings a l

Web 2.0 mashups are real and going mainstream. Come learn how to combine employee expertise and rich information to produce new insights and winning strategies. Learn how your employees can unlock and transform any information into just exactly what's needed to make the best possible d

'Business users are starving for reliable customer information,' said Renat Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar, as Apatar today officially announced StrikeIron Email Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. Khasanshyn is an upcoming speaker at AJAX

As governments and corporations intensify their focus on reducing energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions, pressure to improve data center energy efficiency will continue to grow. We believe that the following four Rs must play an essential role in the development of any initiative

The Web is continuously democratizing how information is consumed. Today, personal Web use has led to a rapid increase in user sophistication which is naturally reaching the Enterprise. A new mode of information visualization known as a Mashup combined with the collaborative aspects of

Open source, open platforms, open development environments... 'Open' can mean a lot of things, and the differences between one 'open' and another can be significant. David 'Lefty' Schelsinger will examine the various aspects and uses of the term 'open' as it relates to the current evol

The notion of building 'social applications' has taken the Web by storm. Today it is not only important to understand how to build Web or AJAX applications, but with the advent of the 'Social Graph', AJAX developer's must have a solid understanding of how to build social applications t

Visual WebGui announced the availability of their enhanced browser-based solution. The company, whose solution has reduced enterprise application development times at companies like SAP, Network D, and others by more than 80%, also announces that Visual WebGui, which is seamlessly inte

WebAssist announced iRite, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like, Microsoft Word.

CA announced a series of initiatives to help customers derive maximum long-term business value from their significant investments in mainframe computing technology. The role of the mainframe continues to evolve as enterprises become increasingly dependent on scalable, available and sec

OpenLogic announced year-end statistics on enterprise open source adoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers.

It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been resisted by BEA, demanded by BEA's biggest stockholder, the dangerous Carl Icahn, and walked away from by Oracle. Oracle is going to pay $19.375 a share

CrownPeak announced how it is the first web Content Management software as a service (SaaS) to announce support for many of the new social networking standards -- especially Google's Open Social, Google Gadgets and other content published for inclusion on social networking sites.

Sangoma Technologies Corporation announced that they have partnered with PeopleTech, a provider of open source technology services and solutions, to expand distribution of Sangoma's premium telephony and data cards throughout India. Through this partnership, PeopleTech will provide a v

For BEA, I was hoping they would succeed at combining the power of JRockit with AquaLogic to build scalable workflow (a la BPM) services. Instead, we users and developers will be waiting for years to see WebLogic and AquaLogic integrated into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. For MyS

Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack. It's paying a billion dollars. MySQL was supposed to go public this year but picked the easier monetizatio

As developers continue to migrate to NetBeans from other IDEs, the NetBeans community has experienced tremendous growth. To date there have been more than 16 million downloads and a 300% increase in email list subscribers during the past three years, and now NetBeans 6.0 has been relea

Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex. While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts - competitive edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few - new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might loo

The introduction of Linux into the data center has brought with it the promise of a new level of cost-efficiency and flexibility for enterprise data center environments. IT professionals prefer Linux for their data centers because it's highly customizable and can be adapted to address

'MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation,' said Sun's CEO and president, Jonathan Schwartz, as Sun today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, the

OpenMake Software announced a new consulting program, Build Mentoring, designed to assist organization in defining the build process beginning with development builds and ending with production releases.

Evolve Technologies unveiled its new Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) and Offsite Backup services, designed for multiple Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 servers. This latest addition to Evolve Technologies' service portfolio is a continuation of the company's targeted strategic growth in

The main concern of any project manager is if there are enough people in the pool of Flex developers to staff the project. Yes, there is a pool of Flex developers, but let's look at the creature called 'Flex Developer' under the microscope. If you are considering adding Flex to your se

There's a great deal of interest in open source software development these days. While the concept of open source (if not the name itself) is hardly new - people have been freely sharing source code since the beginning of the computer industry - the convergence of commercial interest i

Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions announced the availability of its latest release of eCapture Suite. eCapture Suite 2.0 is the industry's first integrated solution that combines distributed document capture with the ability to deliver content to multiple ECM repositories from a

Tidal Software announced that a premier provider of software and managed datacenter services for credit unions, Galaxy Credit Union Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv Inc., has deployed Tidal Enterprise Scheduler as part of their solution. Galaxy uses Tidal Enterprise Scheduler as th

MKS Inc. announced that RWE npower has selected MKS Integrity to automate the software release process for the company's most critical software application - its customer billing system. Part of the RWE Group, the fifth largest industrial firm in Germany, RWE npower generates electrici

The guy who created Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins, has offered a solution to the remarkable situation created by the revoking of the Gentoo Foundations's charter several weeks ago: he is offering to return as President. 'I have received permission from my employer to return and serve as

Sonasoft announces that Ubisoft has successfully implemented Sonasoft's SonaSafe solution to protect Microsoft SQL servers. Sonasoft provides a One-Stop Shop for the Backup, High Availability and Disaster Recovery needs of Ubisoft.

IT Mill Ltd has released version 5.0 of its IT Mill Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 open source license. With IT Mill Toolkit 5 developers now have the building blocks for RIAs that will allow them to work with Java alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites client-side AJAX tools with server-side Java to

Acronis, Inc. announced a new family of backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including SQL Server, Oracle and MS Exchange. Initial shipments of Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server will be in the United States, with Europe and Asia/Pacific Rim releases later

Managed Methods announces the latest release of its free solution for monitoring Web service availability. Managed Methods enhances its offering to customers looking for simple availability in smaller environments.