By Open Source News  In an open email to Novell's customers and partners, the company has canceled the event originally slated for March of next year, namely what would have been the 20th annual BrainShare conference. Here's the note in full, from Novell's SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, John Dragoon. Dec. 18, 2008 08:55 AM EST Reads: 2,115 |
By Open Source News Continuent has announced support and enhancements to MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA release, the 5.1 production version of the open source database. MySQL 5.1.30 is recommended for use on production systems by the MySQL build team at Sun Microsystems. Continuent Tungsten provides advanced repl... Dec. 3, 2008 09:12 AM EST Reads: 2,102 |
By Open Source News Emulex has announced that it will offer Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for use with OpenSolaris’ Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR), thereby providing end-to-end Fibre Channel and FCoE support withi... Nov. 19, 2008 06:15 AM EST Reads: 2,452 |
By Open Source News ONE-NET has announced that Spansion has joined the ONE-NET open-source wireless networking alliance. Spansion joins a growing list of companies supporting the ONE-NET wireless standard. The ONE-NET wireless standard is an open source, multi-vendor wireless control protocol. Even though... Nov. 6, 2008 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,913 |
By Open Source News Open-Xchange has closed a Series B round of venture funding totaling $9 million. The company will use the funds to further develop its software and continue expanding its business in the U.S., Europe and emerging markets. The round was led by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, a Mun... Nov. 4, 2008 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,631 |
By Open Source News IBM, Sun Microsystems and Sine Nomine Associates have announced the availability of operating system prototype code based on OpenSolaris Operating System, running on an IBM System z mainframe, to the global OpenSolaris community. The prototype was completed by SNA with equipment and fi... Nov. 3, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,780 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems has announced the launch of two social networking portals designed to connect the global education community. The new EduConnection.org community serves Sun’s education sector customers, while Open Source University Meetup caters to students interested in open source p... Oct. 30, 2008 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,453 |
By Open Source News Continuent has announced that it is co-operating with Miracle Finland Oy in customer installation, tuning and administration of Continuent’s Tungsten Replicator for Oracle. The Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is designed to Replicate between Oracle database instances (Express, SE1, SE a... Oct. 30, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,745 |
By Open Source News Alfresco Software has announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco’s innovative ... Oct. 29, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,747 |
By Open Source News XAware has announced its upgraded support for Eclipse 3.4. This enhancement gives developers and architects the ability to use the latest version of the Eclipse development environment as they create composite data services for service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applica... Oct. 29, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,626 |
By Open Source News Jitterbit has announced its relationship with Infowelders, a certified salesforce.com implementation partner.
The partnership between Jitterbit and Infowelders is designed to provide customers valuable implementation resources in tackling integrations between salesforce.com and other... Oct. 29, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,568 |
By Open Source News Infobright has announced availability of its new open source data warehouse software, Infobright Community Edition (ICE). This enterprise-class, self-managing solution is an alternative to high-cost, high-maintenance data warehouse products. Infobright is also launching www.infobright.... Sep. 19, 2008 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,382 |
By Open Source News Bluenog announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.0, the integrated suite of content management (ECM or CMS), portal, and business intelligence (BI) software. Bluenog ICE is an “Integrated Collaborative Environment” that leverages Web 2.0 technologies. The suite’s tight integration e... Sep. 15, 2008 01:35 PM EDT Reads: 2,981 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Alfresco Software announced the availability of the first Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft implementation. As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who w... Sep. 10, 2008 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,092 |
By Open Source News The Linux Foundation announced that Black Duck Software has joined as a Foundation member. Black Duck provides solutions for software development teams and legal counsel to manage the hybrid software development process, which involves the assembly of internal software, open source sof... Sep. 10, 2008 08:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,625 |
By Open Source News Alfresco Software announced that Adobe has implemented Alfresco’s document sharing and collaboration capabilities as part of the file sharing features in Acrobat.com. Adobe chose Alfresco as its content repository for its clustered high-availability, security, and highly capable techn... Sep. 2, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,527 |
By Open Source News Open Systems has announced that TRAVERSE v10.5 has been certified to run on Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 database server. SQL Server 2008 promises a dynamic platform for business-critical applications and enterprise-class data management, and is available in seven editions, ranging from... Aug. 29, 2008 09:43 AM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
By Open Source News Jitterbit has announced the availability of Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise, which includes new capabilities, scalability and management tools. With this new release, organizations have the ability to solve integration challenges between legacy, enterprise, and on-demand applications and data... Aug. 18, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,881 |
By Open Source News Microsoft is set to launch a developer program aimed at local companies creating applications using the open-source model. Microsoft recently announced it will open an open-source "interoperability" lab in the Asia Pacific.
Aug. 13, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,560 |
By Open Source News Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, announced that their open source cluster software stack, UniCluster, has exceeded 5,000 downloads by the HPC community. Grid.org, launched in November 2007, was developed to provide a single aggregation point for... Aug. 13, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,035 |
By Open Source News Open-Xchange announced an agreement with O3SIS. The companies expect to release in the third quarter software that will enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telcos and web hosting companies to offer their customers a mobile extension of the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition. Aug. 7, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,889 |
By Open Source News Aster Data Systems announced a strategic partnership with Pentaho that combines product integration, certification, and services. The two companies will also partner on joint sales and marketing efforts. Aster will provide its Aster nCluster analytic database to work in conjunction wit... Aug. 7, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,038 |
By Open Source News XAware announced the general availability of XAware 5.1, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. The product enh... Aug. 7, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
By Open Source News  As a leader in our field, we are committed to providing the best service to our users, and a web experience that meets members expectations and that starts with IT,” said Jean-Luc Vaillant, Chief Technology Officer, LinkedIn. “The combination of Sun and MySQL means quicker access to th... Jul. 31, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,600 |
By Open Source News Black Duck Software announced the addition of a new partner in Taiwan, E-Soft Technologies, further expanding the company's substantial presence in East Asia. Taiwanese companies increasingly utilize open source software to cut development costs and accelerate time-to-market of softwar... Jul. 28, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,836 |
By Open Source News In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open source software was 'free like a puppy is free.' Just as you can pick out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can download and use open source software without buying a single license. But puppie... Jul. 28, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,099 |
By Open Source News Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates into new high security browsers such ... Jul. 25, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,194 |
By Open Source News OrecX announced the formal debut of its Oreka Total Recording (TR) software solution for customer service management professionals, leveraging the power of open source in bolstering efficient call-center operation. Oreka TR allows organizations to comply with regulatory requirements an... Jul. 24, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,621 |
By Open Source News Black Duck Software announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will en... Jul. 24, 2008 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,653 |
By Open Source News In the first annual survey of its membership and other open source software and services companies, the Open Solutions Alliance found much optimism despite a murky economy with 83 percent of participants saying they would see a year-over-year increase in revenue in 2008 of open source ... Jul. 24, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,321 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly us... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,644 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is an open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-perform... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,062 |
By Open Source News Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has concluded a system integrator partnership agreement with U.S.-headquartered Apatar to distribute its open source data integration suite in South Africa. KID will use, consult, train, and offer support services for the Apatar integration package ... Jul. 23, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,725 |
By Open Source News SnapLogic announced the SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to the SnapLogic open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the enterprise firewall and to create custom integration solutions, including application integrations,... Jul. 23, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,681 |
By Open Source News IONA announced that Chariot Solutions has become a FUSE Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA's FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers' enterprise Open Source requirements. As a FUSE Partner, Chariot Solutions' consulting custom... Jul. 18, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,076 |
By Open Source News Optaros has launched DoCASU 1.0, a user interface framework for Alfresco deployments as an open source project. The project will drive open source adoption rates and help users assimilate Alfresco's enterprise content management systems. DoCASU 1.0 leverages the understanding gained fr... Jul. 16, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,267 |
By Open Source News Black Duck Software announced that IONA Technologies has licensed and deployed the Black Duck Protex platform to ensure the proper use and validation of open source code in IONA's product development organization. IONA developers, managers and legal counsel use Protex to increase the e... Jul. 15, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,102 |
By Open Source News Apatar launched Apatar On-Demand for Salesforce.com CRM and QuickBooks accounting software. Apatar On-Demand Edition is a hosted service that synchronizes order data between Salesforce.com CRM and desktop QuickBooks accounting software. It was designed for business users, so the proces... Jul. 11, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,764 |
By Open Source News Jedox AG announced the release of Palo 2.5, the latest version of its flagship application that allows enterprises to centralize key Excel spreadsheet data for use throughout the organization. Leading the lineup of valuable improvements to Palo 2.5 are a newly-optimized MOLAP (Multidim... Jul. 9, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,334 |
By Open Source News ApacheCon US 2008, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will hold this year?s event in New Orleans on November 3-7, 2008. ApacheCon brings together users, developers, vendors, and speakers to discuss groundbreaking Open Source practices and issues, with upda... Jul. 8, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,313 |
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