By Open Source News Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition. With this addition, Terracotta 2.4 can now be used to deliver scalability and availability for ... Jun. 26, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,416 |
By Open Source News Sun is donating storage technologies to the OpenSolaris community so it can create cheap storage solutions that, it says, will run on anybody's commodity hardware - IBM's, Dell's, HP's or its own. It's trying to position OpenSolaris as 'the industry's most comprehensive multi-vendor st... Jun. 24, 2007 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,259 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is Director of Embedded & Open Source Technology at Motorola. Prior to Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives at the Open Source Development Lab (now the Linux Foundation) which included promoting the development and adoptio... Jun. 16, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,663 |
By Open Source News The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software. Jun. 13, 2007 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,933 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News  Nora Denzel recently retired from HP as the senior vice president and general manager of HP's over one-billion dollar software division. At HP, Denzel led one of the most dramatic turn-arounds in the software industry by reinvigorating HP's OpenView and OpenCall software product lines ... Jun. 13, 2007 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 11,811 Replies: 2 |
By Open Source News The FSF left in the tentative grandfather clause that Novell needed to use GPLv3 software upgrades, revs or programs in its SUSE Linux operating systems so no immediate risk of a fork there. And Novell says that it will move to GPLv3 code as necessary. However, that doesn't mean that i... Jun. 10, 2007 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 12,180 Replies: 2 |
By Open Source News Performance and availability of Linux servers are critical system attributes that are growing in important due to incorporated approaches to high availability, especially in Linux telecommunication servers offering five and six nines availability. This paper discusses our experience de... Jun. 2, 2007 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 12,955 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News 'They have ethical and community responsibilities to return at least those modifications that are not critical to their business and that are of general value to the community,' said Eben Moglen. 'We will see over time whether there are additional measures necessary in order to secure ... Jun. 2, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 13,703 Replies: 2 |
By Open Source News Three open source companies got funding this week: Zmanda, MuleSource and SnapLogic. Zmanda, the open source backup and recovery ISV, got an $8 million Series B round led by Helion Venture Partners with current backers BlueRun Ventures and Canaan Partners kicking in. The money is earma... Jun. 2, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,361 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Spring, the open-source, lightweight web application framework for the Java platform, first written by Rod Johnson in 2002, is under discussion in an exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV's Roger Strukhoff. Johnson and Neelan Choksi, both of Spring company Interface21, took the call... May. 29, 2007 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,426 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News MySQL CEO Marten Mickos recently spoke about open-source software and how its freedom does not relate simply to products, but to successful business models. He pointed out that there are 30 million developers around the world, building the Internet, often with open source, in a way tha... May. 29, 2007 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,680 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News According to Microsoft, 'Our customers have told us their data needs can't be addressed by a one-format or one-standard-fits-all approach. Everyone wants to use their data in slightly different ways. That's why we are enabling customers to pick from whatever format they want to use wit... May. 29, 2007 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,868 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News The agreement enshrines the pretzel-like position Novell has been forced to adopt because it appears to be paying Microsoft not to sue its customers for using Linux. In a one-sentence disclaimer it says that, 'Nothing in this agreement shall imply, or be construed as an admission or ac... May. 29, 2007 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 23,425 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Microsoft is starting four open source projects that are supposed to help web developers support information cards, the primary mechanism for representing user identities in the exchange of personal identity information on the Internet. The projects will implement software for specifyi... May. 28, 2007 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,682 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Novell has issued its 10K form, other documents, and a press release relating to its controversial agreement with Microsoft, which has generated criticism from members of the open source community and an assertion by Redmond that Linux may violate more than 200 of its patents. May. 28, 2007 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,230 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Will Novell's disclosure of an edited version of its agreement with Microsoft take some of the heat off Novell created by the deal? 'It's hard to say,' said Novell's Bruce Lowry. 'The community has complained about not seeing it, so they'll see it. However, there will be things redacte... May. 28, 2007 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,471 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Following the great tradition of releasing potential dynamite after the business day closes, during a big holiday week-end no less, here are key links to documents from Novell that contain information relating to the company's arrangement with Microsoft that form the basis for Microsof... May. 26, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,120 Replies: 2 |
By Open Source News MySQL has tied up with Austrian ISV Linbit, which supplies high-availability Linux widgetry called DRBD. MySQL is going to support the Four9s LAMP technology directly. It's meant to narrow the gap between MySQL and proprietary databases. It says, 'Only large enterprise users have been ... May. 12, 2007 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 8,004 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Interface21, a provider of open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, has announced the roadmap to Spring Web Flow 1.1, the latest release of the Web application framework. Apr. 30, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,468 |
By Open Source News Terracotta, Inc., a provider of solutions for enterprise Java scalability, has announced the general availability of Terracotta 2.3, the latest release of the company's open source Java clustering solution. Apr. 30, 2007 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,322 |
By Open Source News  RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Passlogix announced an expanded strategic partnership that will result in tighter integration between the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system and the Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform authentication and enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) tech... Apr. 26, 2007 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,338 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News JasperForge.org is an online developer site that provides free access to software and tools to build, deploy, and extend open source BI software. Projects range from developer tools to integration toolkits to localization powered by an interactive online translation tool, JasperBabylon... Apr. 25, 2007 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,749 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Novell told the SEC Thursday that some of its stock options from November of 1996 through last September were backdated, but claims its investigation found 'no intentional wrongdoing by any former or current employees or directors.' Novell hasn't filed financial reports since last spri... Apr. 25, 2007 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,513 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Cassatt, a provider of enterprise software to enable dynamic IT infrastructures, has announced a partnership with XenSource, the infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the Xen open source hypervisor, under which Cassatt will be able to sell XenEnterprise alongside Cassatt?s p... Apr. 18, 2007 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 20,920 |
By Open Source News OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org), is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS... Apr. 13, 2007 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,760 |
By Open Source News Microsoft has managed to get sued for unfair and deceptive practices over those little 'Vista capable' flags that flew on boxes in shops for months in the run-up to the Vista launch in January. A woman bought one only to discover it will only run a very basic Vista. Apr. 13, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,719 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News IONA Technologies has acquired LogicBlaze, a privately held, probably straining open source SOA and business integration venture, on undisclosed terms. It called it a 'smallish transaction.' LogicBlaze was started by Winston Damarillo, the guy who did Gluecode Software, the JBoss compe... Apr. 13, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,900 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Vyatta, which has a line of enterprise-style open source network infrastructure products like routers and firewalls, has picked up $11 million in B Series financing from Comcast Interactive Capital as well as ArrowPath Venture Capital, ComVentures and Panorama Capital. Apr. 10, 2007 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,283 |
By Open Source News Richard Stallman just delivered extensive remarks about the state of open source and the GPL, and now a survey shows that there may be a 50/50 split within the open source community concerning whether the GPLv3 will be a good thing. Apr. 6, 2007 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,114 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News In order to understand the GNU General Public License, first you have to understand what free software means. Free Software means software that respects the users' freedom. Software that's not free is proprietary software. Non-free software, user subjugating software, is distributed in... Apr. 5, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 11,120 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News OpenLogic has added more than 60 new open source products to the OpenLogic Certified Library. OpenLogic Enterprise 4.4 provides improved enterprise-wide management of open source policies across the enterprise, the company says. It has add functionality in a number of areas with its la... Apr. 4, 2007 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,300 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News The OpenEAI Sample Enterprise 2.0 includes the OpenEAI ESB 4.0 along with a pre-developed set of gateways and open source applications packaged to provide immediate functionality and a ready-made environment for testing, prototyping, and pre-deployment evaluation. Sample Enterprise app... Apr. 3, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,705 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Rackable Systems, Inc., a provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, has announced its first sale of Concentro, Rackable Systems' new modular, containerized data center product. Mar. 26, 2007 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,752 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Sourcefire Inc, the intrusion detection and prevention house whose mojo is based on the popular open source Snort system, went public last Friday at $15 a share, higher than the $12-$14 initially proposed and raising $71.8 million. Despite the turbulence of the market this week, it hel... Mar. 17, 2007 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,380 |
By Open Source News Open Source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SOA deployments and illu... Mar. 13, 2007 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 12,203 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank u... Mar. 8, 2007 09:45 PM EST Reads: 10,403 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News 'Our goal when developing Helmi's open source product,' said Jorden Woods, CEO of Helmi Technologies in the U.S. 'was to allow companies to leverage their development team's knowledge base and shorten the learning curve to maximize productivity.' Woods was speaking as Helmi announced t... Mar. 7, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 13,618 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Intalio,the Open Source BPMS Company announced the donation of its trailblazing BPMN process modeler to the Eclipse Foundation. The technology is now available under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and is part of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project. Mar. 7, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 16,832 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News Palamida, a provider of software assurance management products and audit services, announced a partnership with Innoopract, a provider of Eclipse-based add-on tools, consulting, support, training and open source distribution solutions. Mar. 7, 2007 11:15 AM EST Reads: 15,323 Replies: 1 |
By Open Source News This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world Open Source SOA implementation, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of : How to implement large xmlschema dri... Mar. 6, 2007 12:15 PM EST Reads: 10,669 Replies: 1 |
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