By Open Source News Open source application developers Colosa and Knowledge Tree have announced a 'mashup' of their web-based applications (ProcessMaker and KnowledgeTree document management software) to help small to mid-sized businesses handle, manage and retrieve vital company documents such as contrac... Mar. 24, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,837 |
By Open Source News Appcelerator announced the launch of its new open source developer community, the Appcelerator Developer Network. 'The response to our revamped developer community has been overwhelming,' said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. 'In just a few days, over 500 new community members have si... Mar. 20, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,065 |
By Open Source News JumpBox announced that it is launching JumpBox Open - giving users subscription access to their collection of time saving virtual appliances for Open Source applications. 'In a nutshell, JumpBox Open brings simplicity, selection and time savings to the world of Open Source software,' s... Mar. 20, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,095 |
By Open Source News InterSystems announced that the Swedish national electronic health record, known as the National Patient Overview (NPO) will be supplied by TietoEnator using InterSystems HealthShare software. The contract is valued at approximately $19 million for the first five years, with an option ... Mar. 19, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,610 |
By Open Source News SourceLabs announced a Self-Support offering for Linux, as well as a similar offering for open source Java. The tools and services give developers, corporate IT professionals, and their solution providers a new way to more effectively support open source software than large vendors pus... Mar. 19, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,730 |
By Open Source News In order to deliver expanded support options to companies running their business operations on SAP applications and the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system, Novell and SAP announced an extension of their long-standing relationship. In a move that will help meet the growing demand fo... Mar. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,123 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems announced a small and medium-sized business (SMB) initiative that makes it easy and affordable for SMBs to buy Sun's innovative, open source and reliable solutions. Sun is delivering complete, easy-to-deploy solutions that tackle many of the technology issues commonly ... Mar. 18, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,608 |
By Open Source News XAware announced that its open source Plug-in for Salesforce is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers utilize the AppExchange to find additional applications to extend the benefits of SaaS throughout their business and operational objectives. XAware's ... Mar. 17, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,437 |
By Open Source News Moonwalk announced its latest Moonwalk software suite, with support for Novell's Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2). Novell's Open Enterprise Server 2 combines workgroup services from Novell with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, completing the Open Enterprise Server shift to providing workgr... Mar. 17, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,077 |
By Open Source News Vyatta confirmed its open source networking software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, providing enterprises and service providers relying on high-performance networks with an open alternative to expensive proprietary routers. Scalability tests were performed using IBM server... Mar. 17, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,393 |
By Open Source News Protecode announced an automated preventive Intellectual Property (IP) management solution. Protecode plug-in is a software development tool that unobtrusively manages IP by detecting and logging 100% of content entering a software project. Protecode logs, identifies and reports pedigr... Mar. 17, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,135 |
By Open Source News Intalio announced a partnership with Alfresco Software. The integrated offering of Intalio|BPMS and Alfresco ECM allows users to manage advanced document-centric workflow processes and support the collaborative development of complex business processes. Mar. 12, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,570 |
By Open Source News  New Atlanta will be creating and distributing a free open-source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) version of BlueDragon, its ColdFusion-compatible web application server. It will be released under the popular GPL license, mirroring the licensing path chosen by MySQL and Java... Mar. 11, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,755 |
By Open Source News Bluenog announced that MultiPlan has chosen Bluenog Rich Portal as its portal platform. Bluenog Rich Portal brings open source to enterprise IT shops in an affordable way. The platform is built on top of open source projects and Web 2.0 standards and integrates with commercial enterpri... Mar. 10, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,167 |
By Open Source News Zoho announced Zoho People, its human resource management application for companies that want to run their businesses online. People joins Zoho's suite of business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects, and Zoho DB. The new offering is ideal for small and medium... Mar. 10, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,760 |
By Open Source News Appistry unveiled a new initiative providing free and easy access to its grid-based application platform. The initiative introduces a new product, Appistry EAF Community Edition, an Open Distribution licensing model, and the company's new Peer2Peer developer portal. Mar. 10, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,823 |
By Open Source News Metastorm announced that its software has been successfully deployed by the City of Richmond, an economically progressive city and Virginia's capital, as the foundation to automate its citywide processes. Mar. 10, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,823 |
By Open Source News PreEmptive Solutions launched its Evaluation Process Management (EPM) Service, a combination of software plus managed-services that provides visibility into - and control - over commercial software evaluations and beta software deployments. Mar. 10, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,440 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems and the Forum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terrestre (Forum SBTVD took a big step forward in providing an affordable alternative for DTV conversion. The organizations announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to join forces in the development of an ... Mar. 10, 2008 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,997 |
By Open Source News NextMedium announced that Deutsch will be the first advertising agency to partner with and utilize the company's Embed platform to maximize brand integration opportunities for its clients. For agencies such as Deutsch, NextMedium's Embed platform serves as a complete management system ... Mar. 7, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,627 |
By Open Source News  'Web developers never had it so good...' gushed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week as he contemplated how in addition to Glassfish and NetBeans, millions of developers could now look to Sun to provide them with MySQL - which, as of February 26, is now officially a part of Sun. Mar. 6, 2008 02:15 PM EST Reads: 10,948 |
By Open Source News InterSystems Corporation announced that it is ranked as a leader in customer affinity- an accurate measure of predicting customers' technology purchasing intentions and decisions, according to a marketing effectiveness study recently released by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Counci... Mar. 4, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,016 |
By Open Source News McObject announced that NextPoint Networks has integrated McObject's eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system in multiple applications within its IntelliConnect System product family, which enables operators to deliver intelligent, secure and scalable session management between fix... Mar. 3, 2008 02:30 PM EST Reads: 3,260 |
By Open Source News LogLogic announced that software vendors Compliance Spectrum and UpperVision have used LogLogic's Open Log Services API to integrate their offerings with LogLogic's log management and intelligence (LMI) platform. Via LogLogic's Open Log Services, joint customers utilizing LogLogic's se... Mar. 3, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,477 |
By Open Source News Sun Microsystems announced the latest additions to its open archive portfolio, adding a midrange modular library and tape drive. In addition, Sun introduced enhancements to archive data security and release of a multi-tiered archive appliance that will work heterogeneously with Solaris... Mar. 3, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 2,901 |
By Open Source News Zaheda Bhorat, Google's Open Source Programs Manager, has reiterated Google's position that Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) 'doesn't meet the criteria required for a globally-accepted standard.' The comment comes as the deadline approaches for ISO member bodies around the world to ... Feb. 28, 2008 04:00 AM EST Reads: 6,242 |
By Open Source News Jcx.Software announced the availability of VS.Php 2.4 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This is the new edition to the VS.Php family of products. VS.Php users that are planning to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 should upgrade to this edition. VS.Php 2.4 continues to be providing unique ... Feb. 27, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,488 |
By Open Source News PivotStor announced a tape library that combines LTO-4 tape's reliability with SAS interface connectivity speed and the demonstrated economy of half-height drives. The result is a full line of tape libraries that integrate more capacity, more data density, more bandwidth and greater p... Feb. 26, 2008 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,977 |
By Open Source News The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), marked its one-year anniversary with three new members, a global focus, and advances toward seamless interoperability between commercial open-source applications. 'The commercial open-source industry is no longer in an early-adopter phase,' said Domin... Feb. 26, 2008 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,665 |
By Open Source News McObject has added support for the KD-Tree, a database index with uses in spatial and pattern-matching applications, to its Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database system. For developers working with Perst, the KD-Tree expands coding efficiency and helps make Java and .NET... Feb. 25, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,437 |
By Open Source News XAware announced the general availability of XAware 5, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services for SOA and Web 2.0 applications. XAware's proven data integration software, now in its fifth generation, makes it easy to access and integ... Feb. 25, 2008 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,501 |
By Open Source News OASIS announced that its members have approved the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 1.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee, the new standard de... Feb. 25, 2008 12:30 PM EST Reads: 2,774 |
By Open Source News FalconStor announced the deployment of a Fibre Channel FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), powered by the FalconStor IPStor storage virtualisation platform, at the Office National Interprofessionel des Grandes Cultures (ONIGC). The FalconStor NSS solution, installed by FalconStor ... Feb. 21, 2008 11:45 AM EST Reads: 3,796 |
By Open Source News Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero, says the company is seeing rapid growth on a number of fronts. The firm, which says it is complementary to the big four systems management companies (IBM Tivoli, CA, Compuware, and BMC) because they don't... Feb. 21, 2008 11:45 AM EST Reads: 3,527 |
By Open Source News Lattice Semiconductor expanded its commitment to open source embedded system design by releasing an implementation of the uClinux Operating System (OS) targeted for its LatticeMico32 embedded soft core processor. The new OS support allows developers to implement control systems in a de... Feb. 19, 2008 02:30 PM EST Reads: 3,184 |
By Open Source News Active Endpoints announced the availability of Milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server. ActiveBPEL 5.0 represents the release of an open-source implementation of both BPEL4People and WS-Human Task. These specifications allow human interactions to be included in services-... Feb. 15, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,345 |
By Open Source News Specsavers has completed a three-month project to scale its OpenLDAP directory services across six countries, as it gears up for further global expansion. Specsavers wanted a global solution for user lookup, authentication and access control with distributed administration capabilities... Feb. 13, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,866 |
By Open Source News Palamida announced that it has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance as an inaugural member. Through the program, Palamida will integrate their vulnerability reporting capabilities with McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), enabling customers to extend the scope of their applic... Feb. 13, 2008 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,743 |
By Open Source News 'It's a continuation of the work that I've been doing the past 20 years,' affirmed Larry Augustin, one of the most respected figures in open source and the creator of SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source software development community, as it was announced this week that he ... Feb. 13, 2008 05:15 AM EST Reads: 13,027 |
By Open Source News  'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie. To date Appcelerator has seen the strongest a... Feb. 13, 2008 04:00 AM EST Reads: 15,943 |
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