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Vyatta announced that Liquid Computing has joined the Vyatta Ready Partner Program. Liquid Computing's LiquidIQ has passed interoperability testing with Vyatta software and is now approved as Vyatta Ready. The combination of technologies provides data center customers with a high-perfo...
Talend announced the availability of Talend Open Studio version 2.3, the company's flagship open source data integration solution. The updated software, including over 30 new components, now connects to more databases and business applications, and enables real-time support by allowing...
OpenSpan announced that five of the top 100 largest banking and diversified financial providers in the Forbes Global 2000 have chosen the OpenSpan Platform to rapidly integrate, automate and extend applications across the enterprise desktop. The banks and other financial services organ...
Some of the most scared people inside Yahoo right now have got to be the open source Zimbra crowd that Yahoo acquired last September for $350 million for its Microsoft-opposing enterprise-directed e-mail and calendaring, folks who just released their webby AJAX-based Collaboration Suit...
Unicon Systems, developers and manufacturers of CCOTS mobile devices and scalable Systems-on-Display (SoD) technology for mobile and wireless applications, announced that embedded industry veteran Bill Weinberg would be joining their advisory board.
KnowledgeTree and Sybase SBS Software announced that they have signed a master distributor agreement to strengthen the relationship between the companies for actively promoting open source document management software solutions in Spain and Portugal. The agreement calls for Sybase SBS ...
Carahsoft and Pentaho announced an exclusive distribution agreement. The companies will work together to address the large and growing demand for Pentaho's open source business intelligence (BI) software in federal government organizations. Under the terms of the agreement, Carahsoft w...
MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos addresses recent criticism directed at him by certain segments of the open-source community in an exclusive interview with Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Mickos also discusses his company's upcoming MySQL 5.0 release and what it means to his company and to use...
IBM and Avada Software announced a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Avada Software will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edit...
The original founder of Covalent Technologies, Randy Terbush, writes in response to last Friday's report that Covalent has been bought by 3-year old SpringSource. 'I've bit my tongue on the many inaccuracies reported about 'Covalent' over the past 5 years,' writes Randy Terbush, 'but y...
Apatar announced a technology and marketing alliance with EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company. Under the alliance, Apatar will support EnterpriseDB's Postgres-based database products as both sources and targets of data integration initiatives.
The WSO2 ESB team announced the release of version 1.6 of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The WSO2 ESB is an ultra fast, light-weight and versatile Enterprise Service Bus based on the Apache Synapse ESB. It allows you to Connect, Manage and Transform service interactions ...
DataDirect announced the latest release of its DataDirect XQuery engine now supporting the MySQL Enterprise Server database. For the first time, users of the most popular and widely used open-source database can take advantage of the high-performance, scalability and reliability of Dat...
Olocity Corporation is dedicated to delivering open standards based management solutions, products, and services and has acquired the StorageIM open source storage network management platform which will be integrated into its offerings. StorageIM is an open source management console f...
Our very favorite reaction to the Sun-MySQL acquisition came from industry pundit John Dvorak who calls it 'perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions.' He says that given Sun's abominable track record with acquisitions and the ...
'Business users are starving for reliable customer information,' said Renat Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar, as Apatar today officially announced StrikeIron Email Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. Khasanshyn is an upcoming speaker at AJAX...
WebAssist announced iRite, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like, Microsoft Word.
CA announced a series of initiatives to help customers derive maximum long-term business value from their significant investments in mainframe computing technology. The role of the mainframe continues to evolve as enterprises become increasingly dependent on scalable, available and sec...
OpenLogic announced year-end statistics on enterprise open source adoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers.
CrownPeak announced how it is the first web Content Management software as a service (SaaS) to announce support for many of the new social networking standards -- especially Google's Open Social, Google Gadgets and other content published for inclusion on social networking sites.
Sangoma Technologies Corporation announced that they have partnered with PeopleTech, a provider of open source technology services and solutions, to expand distribution of Sangoma's premium telephony and data cards throughout India. Through this partnership, PeopleTech will provide a v...
Evolve Technologies unveiled its new Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) and Offsite Backup services, designed for multiple Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 servers. This latest addition to Evolve Technologies' service portfolio is a continuation of the company's targeted strategic growth in...
OpenMake Software announced a new consulting program, Build Mentoring, designed to assist organization in defining the build process beginning with development builds and ending with production releases.
Daybreak Intellectual Capital Solutions announced the availability of its latest release of eCapture Suite. eCapture Suite 2.0 is the industry's first integrated solution that combines distributed document capture with the ability to deliver content to multiple ECM repositories from a ...
MKS Inc. announced that RWE npower has selected MKS Integrity to automate the software release process for the company's most critical software application - its customer billing system. Part of the RWE Group, the fifth largest industrial firm in Germany, RWE npower generates electrici...
Tidal Software announced that a premier provider of software and managed datacenter services for credit unions, Galaxy Credit Union Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv Inc., has deployed Tidal Enterprise Scheduler as part of their solution. Galaxy uses Tidal Enterprise Scheduler as th...
Sonasoft announces that Ubisoft has successfully implemented Sonasoft's SonaSafe solution to protect Microsoft SQL servers. Sonasoft provides a One-Stop Shop for the Backup, High Availability and Disaster Recovery needs of Ubisoft.
Acronis, Inc. announced a new family of backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including SQL Server, Oracle and MS Exchange. Initial shipments of Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server will be in the United States, with Europe and Asia/Pacific Rim releases later ...
Managed Methods announces the latest release of its free solution for monitoring Web service availability. Managed Methods enhances its offering to customers looking for simple availability in smaller environments.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...