Open Source News

Open Source and Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today introduced a major new version of its software. Funambol 8.5 propels the company's open source mobile cloud platform into important new directions by syncing diverse mobile data, rich media and messaging on billions of phones and PCs. The company is also unveiling its new "build once, deploy everywhere" framework that enables developers to use familiar web 2.0 technology to create one version of a web app that runs on mobile devices with a rich UI, offline storage and social capabilities. This provides several advantages: fast time to market, easy development and native look-and-feel. "The mobile cloud is red hot, as device makers... (more)

Alfresco Brings Lotus Users Open Source Content Management Platform

CMS Journal on Ulitzer Alfresco Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal. This integration brings together a combination of the Lotus social collabo... (more)

metaLogic to Showcase Lotus Notes Migration Tool

Open Source Journal on Ulitzer Nuxeo on Monday announced that Galaxy partner metaLogic Consulting will showcase for the first time a Lotus Notes integration and migration software to the Nuxeo open source ECM platform. The metaLogic product will be available this spring. metaLogic brings deep content management expertise to its customer base and has more than 12 years experience as an IBM... (more)

ActiveState Launches Business Edition

Open Source Journal on Ultizer ActiveState, the dynamic languages experts, today launched ActiveState Business Edition, commercial-grade language distributions for Perl, Python and Tcl, providing organizations open source compliance, commercial support, and cross-platform access. "ActiveState has been a leading contributor in the open source community for years," said Bart Copeland, Pres... (more)

Most Popular Computer Language Keywords

Koders.com issued a summary of the most popular computer language keywords, files and projects used by developers in December, 2009. Analyzing search engine trends in a number of different computer languages, the "12 Days of Code Search" is based on hundreds of thousands of searches and downloads performed by thousands of users. Results were compiled and analyzed by Black Duck Software, th... (more)