As interest in mobile AJAX gathers in the wake of the Apple iPhone release, the ICEfaces open source project is poised to deliver mobile AJAX solutions. This presentation talks about why the server-centric nature of the ICEfaces technology provides inherent advantages in the mobile sp

SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, has announced the final release of Spring.NET 1.1, an application framework for the development and deployment of enterprise .NET applications. With roots in the widely used Spring Framework programming model for Java, Spring.NET extends the

The success of open source software has been placing pressure on the business models of proprietary software vendors. In response, many software vendors have shifted from a paid-for license model to an open source business model. This presentation will explore the emerging trend of pro

'Our member CEOs have given us important insights into what they expect for the coming new year,' said Dominic Sartorio, president of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) - a nonprofit, vendor neutral consortium dedicated to driving the interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open

While enterprise open source vendors continue to debate the definition of 'open,' customers are listening. Not because they care as much about what open source business model a particular vendor uses but because our debates give them reason to be confused and to consider the FUD that i

The City of Sherwood is one of the fastest growing communities in the State or Oregon. As the City continues to grow, pressure is placed on City staff to better manage and maintain infrastructure as well as information in order to improve efficiencies and decision making. Part of becom

Data corruption is an insidious problem in storage. While there are many forms of corruption, there are also many ways to prevent them. For example, enterprise class servers use error checking and correcting caches and memory to protect against single and double bit errors. System buse

Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HTTP (Hyper Text Transfe

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his open-source search project, dubbed Wikia Search. According to the Washington Post Wales, who has described Yahoo! and Google as opaque services that don't explain how results are arrived at, says the project will a

The OpenVZ project announced that using its open source virtualization software in combination with virtual machine open source Xen software, users can effectively create many virtual servers to improve utilization of the physical server. The OpenVZ project freely distributes and offer

The Vector Linux Team has announced the release of Vector Linux v5.9 GREEN. Bleeding edge Open Source at the speed of light. We do our part to GREEN the planet so you can do yours. Every purchase helps us continue our work, we have been serving the computing public with Vector Linux fo

Adobe is open sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies in its commercial LiveCycle Data Services ES - Adobe's route to the Internet - as a new product called BlazeDS. The widgetry, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, is being sent into the wild un

JavaFX is a scripting language that provides more powerful client applications in term of features for the user interface experience as well as being incorporated with server platform technology such as RMI, Web Services, and EJB. Its ability to reuse all Java libraries opens an opport

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in

Canonical, the Ubuntu people, has pushed out a version control system called Bazaar 1.0 so hundreds of globally dispersed developers can kick in to software projects independently without utter chaos ensuing. Canonical says the traditional centralized VCS doesn't suit outsourced softwa

In a surprise move Thursday Red Hat named the former COO of Delta Airlines Jim Whitehurst president and CEO, replacing Matthew Szulik who remains chairman. Szulik said he was stepping down after almost 10 years with the company because of serious health issues with his family that he h

Software AG announced the acquisition of the application modernization business of Jacada for $26M in a cash transaction. The asset deal expands Software AG?s application modernization portfolio with additional products for modernizing the user interface of mainframe and mid-range-base

Actuate Corporation announced today the results of a benchmark test conducted at the IBM Innovation Center, reaffirming Actuate as the industry's highest performing and most scalable platform for generating information applications. The tests focused on the collaborative reporting capa

Quark Inc. and Alfresco Software, Inc. announced a new partnership to develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers. With 15 years of workgroup publishing experience, Quark has designed technologies such as Qua

Lombardi announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Leaders' quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007 report. Gartner positions vendors in the magic quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.

After suddenly canceling its earnings release last week because - come to find out - the SEC has been poring over last year's 10-K and this year's Q2 10-Q since this summer, whatever mysterious 'accounting matters' provoked the agency's review just as suddenly got resolved and Novell p

Compiere has unveiled Compiere 3.0, which includes numerous functional and stability innovations to its open source ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) core. Compiere 3.0 also marks the introduction of Compiere Professional Edition, a new offering targeted at larger organiza

Visual Numerics announced an OEM agreement with SAP AG. Under the terms of the agreement, the Visual Numerics' IMSL C Numerical Library version 6.0 will be embedded into the SAP NetWeaver platform. The IMSL C Library will be integrated into TREX - a structured and unstructured data pro

Jinfonet Software announced the release of JReport 8.2. JReport 8.2 delivers enhancements in three key areas: Performance improvements for large reports, greater developer flexibility and an enhanced user experience. Working in conjunction with the IBM Innovation Center to develop perf

Tidal Software announced that Albany International Corp. is deploying Tidal solutions to assist in the rollout and to automate the ongoing operation of its new worldwide implementation of SAP. Albany is consolidating all worldwide data center operations onto a global implementation o

ILOG announced ILOG JViews 8, the latest version of ILOG?s award-winning Java-based visualization suite that enhances the creation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and desktop applications for supervision and monitoring. ILOG JViews 8.1 introduces a new presentation layer for the Ec

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Japan has chosen Sun to create an open, Web 2.0 architecture that will better leverage IT to deliver better government services to citizens. Japan, Singapore and Norway each join the growing list of governments that have already turned to Sun for e

Business Objects and SPSS announced the companies have entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement in which Business Objects will offer its customers the ability to use SPSS predictive analytics data mining technology as part of the market-leading BusinessObjects XI platf

Perforce Software announced that Ixonos Plc, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) System, to manage software development projects for its leading smartphone customers. Ixonos' telecommunications business unit speciali

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the Open Society Institute a

In my opinion this is THE biggest announcement that I?ve heard from Adobe since the release Flex 2 in the Summer of 2006. This is bigger than open sourcing Flex. This is bigger than AIR. Here's the news: Adobe is open sourcing AMF protocol and messaging under LGPL V3. Christophe Coenra

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank u

In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com

SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, has announced a strategic partnership with Hyperic. Under the terms of the agreement, SpringSource will use Hyperic's flagship open source software, Hyperic HQ, as the foundation of its new systems management offering. The joint offering pro

Day Software has expanded its presence in the social media and open source markets with the acquisition of the founders and key innovators of Mindquarry, an open source collaborative software platform provider. Alexander Klimetschek, Alexander Saar and Lars Trieloff, experts in social

IONA Technologies will use Hyperic's flagship product, Hyperic HQ Enterprise, as the foundation for its new monitoring and management system, FUSE HQ. FUSE HQ is available now as part of IONA's latest version of its FUSE family of open source SOA products. The FUSE family of products i

IONA Technologies has released a new version of its FUSE family of open source SOA products and updates to the FUSE community. The FUSE products are IONA's tested and certified releases of SOA Open Source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. IONA selects specific releases from e

My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher 'Googles' for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can fo

Application development organizations lag behind their business and IT peers when it comes to their use of metrics, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Borland Software. Despite the pivotal role of IT in enabling business agility and support

At one of the world's largest FOSS events, held annually in India, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, announced last week a multi-year award program in support of fostering innovation and advancing open source within open source communities. 'We'll be providing a substantial