Sun, which has not exactly rallied the open source community around it - for all its belated overtures - is now proposing to pay developers prize money to work on OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSparc, NetBeans and OpenOffice. According to Simon Phipps' blog - he's Sun's chief ope

Sourceforge, the famous open source project site that's driving its owners to the poor house, has set up a fee-less commission-based online marketplace where service and support for open source software can be bought and sold. Called simply enough Sourceforge.net Marketplace, it starts

Red Hat has swept up its messaging, real-time and grid mojo into a little beta pile it's calling Red Hat Enterprise MRG, a distributed computing platform that's optimized to run on top of RHEL, of course, but can work on other platforms as well, it says, either individually or in combi

db4objects announced that db4o runs seamlessly on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced recently by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. The Android stack comes complete with application framework, development environment, tools, debuggers and vital a

Last month I wrote about vendor-driven architectures (VDA), and I had a few vendors ask me to look on the other side of the fence. In essence, to consider how vendors can better address the needs of the customer, considering the new drivers with SOA. Truth be told, I can't believe the

For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions

DreamFace Interactive, a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, provides a new way for Web-savvy business people to create, control, and share their own Web applications, through a concept called WebChannels, which makes it possible to create applications designed for change.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has resolved to formally request the Free Software Software Foundation (FSF) modify the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) so that mass collaborative projects such as Wikipedia can use and license existing GFDL content under the Creative Co

Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in 2008, with 5,500 authors and more than 550,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architect(s), programmer(s), and Web app developer(s). The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics ranging from AJAX to Zebra.

Software AG announced that Bossini Enterprises has implemented the webMethods ESB from Software AG. With enhanced, company-wide access to real-time and synchronized data, Bossini can now closely monitor and manage business performance and meet business expectations. Furthermore, the us

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced an open source Social Computing Platform for the enterprise. The release integrates Alfresco's popular ECM software with leading Web 2.0 tools and services such as Facebook, iGoogle, Adobe Flex, MediaWiki, TypePad and WordPress.

Likewise Software, formerly Centeris, has released Likewise Open, an open source community project that enables core Active Directory authentication for Linux systems by joining them to Active Directory domains. Likewise Open provides organizations that are struggling with homegrown an

Zenoss has released a new version of Zenoss Enterprise. The new version adds several enterprise-grade capabilities for network, server and application management including discovery and monitoring of virtual servers, new application monitors including templates for the most popular Jav

Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon

TotalView Technologie announced that OpenGeoSolutions has chosen to use its TotalView Debugger to streamline the development of applications built on the company's OpenSeis processing toolkit. Based in Calgary, AB, Canada, OpenGeoSolutions is becoming known as the leading resource for

Red Hat said Monday that the public beta of its operating system on the newfangled Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was available. Amazon has taken to peddling resizable time, utility-style, on its own data center to other people and Red Hat arranged for its customers to run their ce

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

In my many years of programming, almost 20 years now, I have used countless integrated development environments (IDEs). I have used everything from a simple text editor all the way up to the high-end IDEs that Sybase, IBM, and Oracle use. More recently I have come to embrace the open s

My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic

Sure, Oracle has its award-winning Fusion Middleware SOA-driven tools to integrate these sources. And Oracle already has a roadmap that ultimately merges/migrates its acquired customers into the Oracle fold. But what does an organization do while its waiting for the Fusion-driven SOA e

Open source-based software developer Novell has released the new version of Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the open source enterprise operating system, to cater to the financial market. According to Novell, the new version of Suse includes enterprise open source technologies and f

Python, the open source programming language that sees itself as an alternative to Java and brags about being used at Google, Industrial Light & Magic and NASA, will be having its PyCon user conference March 14-16 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. Python creator Guido van Rossu

Canonical announced the availability of the Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other additions to the Ubuntu environment on desktop, server and now mobile platforms.T

Programmers naturally gravitate toward the best software packages and components for development. They are increasingly choosing a broad range of enterprise-grade open source packages from Apache and Tomcat to Axis and Eclipse. But imagine for a moment this all-too-common scenario: a p

Concurrent Computer Corporation announced the availability of RedHawk - Cluster Manager software for its line of commercial off-the-shelf X-86 based systems including iHawk - multiprocessor systems and ImaGen - visual servers. The RedHawk Cluster Manager allows users to install and con

SpikeSource, a provider of packaged and maintained open source solutions, announces the availability of its Open-Xchange Appliance powered by SpikeSource, a turnkey solution that bundles Open-Xchange Express Edition software into a comprehensive, enterprise-class email appliance. Based

Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc announced their plans to develop new and innovatively designed games and applications for Google's free and open source mobile platform, Android. The company anticipates that this emerging platform will soon attract handset manufacturers because of

Cognos announced that Jordan?s Furniture has won the Technology User of the Year award given by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. These awards recognize the best and brightest technology innovators and leaders. Awards are also bestowed upon companies that either develop

Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago, WBEQ 90.7 FM Morris, and WBEW 89.5 FM Chesterton) is a community-supported, non-commercial public service broadcasting institution for 7.7 million people throughout Chicago and surrounding regions. Chicago Public Radio produces, acquires, and

The stakes are high. As an Open Solutions Association (OSA) board member and executive VP of Centric CRM, my number-one fear is that the creativity and dynamism of the past decade could come to nothing if open source application vendors don't stand together and take a collective positi

For Software as a Service (SaaS) and Financial Services applications, AJAX-enhanced UIs are a proven way to improve bottom-line performance,' said Paul Giurata, managing partner, Catalyst Resources, who runs a 30-45 day program to help clients successfully AJAX-enable their web-based a

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com

You may have heard statements such as Linux is inexpensive, reduces TCO and dependency on vendors, and is easy to maintain, from promoters of Linux in the enterprise. But, for those who still haven't made the jump - this article discusses implementation hurdles, cost of implementation,

Two months after IBM decided to try to revive Lotus Symphony as a rival to Office, it says the free Symphony beta 2 has been downloaded by 250,000 registered users, 88% of whom are Microsoft customers. Twelve percent are using the Linux version, IBM says, and 50% of the users are outs

Looks like Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz should have waited for his boys to give Google's Android spec the once over before endorsing the thing last week expecting Java to get a 'massive endorsement' out of it. Oh, Java gets a 'massive endorsement' all right; it's just not standard off-th

Google, as promised, put the Android SDK out in early access - along with a $10 million pot for the best apps written for its open Android mobile platform by third-party developers. It said the platform would be open and it's going about proving it. It also needs the buzz - and a kill

Open source software is shifting the software industry into a new paradigm, moving from developing proprietary code behind closed doors to developing code that can be shared, modified and redistributed openly. Key benefits associated with this shift is reducing development cost and sof

The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) is a new top-level project at eclipse.org. Originally proposed by Sybase in February 2005, DTP has attracted strong community support and is currently managed by a committee comprised of Sybase, IBM and Actuate. It is an open source initiative desi

This is the second part of my two-part series on open source market strategies and implementations. I previously outlined the 10 strategy rules for open source marketing and emphasized building new markets, differentiating, contributing, pricing and innovating, and the customer relatio

Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h