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By Open Source News Our cross-industry survey on the openness of open source - How Open Is 'Open'? - resonated so strongly with Neelan Choksi, of Interface21, that he composed a brief essay in response. We bring it to you here in full. Mar. 4, 2007 12:45 PM EST Reads: 10,214 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Arjé Cahn, CTO of Open Source Content Management developer Hippo, will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. He runs the Hippo open source team at www.hippocms.org. and has earned his merits in the open sou... Mar. 3, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 10,770 | By Open Source News Neelan Choksi - VP, Americas, of Interface21 - will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Before Interace21 Choksi founded SolarMetric, which was acquired by BEA Systems. Mar. 1, 2007 01:45 PM EST Reads: 11,784 | By Open Source News SameDesk is a first realization of OpenSpot's effort. In its core, SameDesk may be described as a virtual desktop environment where applications serving directly from different web sites and domains are allowed to work together seamlessly and securely for the users. The interoperabilit... Feb. 23, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 12,293 | By Open Source News Stratus Technologies and XenSource announced they have signed a collaborative agreement with the goal of fusing continuous availability and virtualization technologies to create new IT infrastructure solutions with superior reliability, flexibility and manageability. Feb. 20, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 17,660 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Hyperic, pioneer in multi-platform, open source systems management, announced today the availability of the industry?s first virtualization management solution Hyperic HQ for VMware. This pioneering solution enables data centers to consolidate complete discovery, monitoring, analysis a... Feb. 20, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 16,312 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Total Enterprise Virtualization has been made possible, primarily, by the strong adoption of VMware server virtualization and the maturity and affordability of new virtual SAN software solutions like DataCore's SANmelody(TM). In addition, an ecosystem of virtualization-complementary pr... Feb. 20, 2007 05:30 PM EST Reads: 12,644 | By Open Source News Stratus Technologies, Inc., a leader in IT technology and services for continuous availability, and XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen(TM) hypervisor, today announced they have signed a collaborative agreement with the go... Feb. 20, 2007 05:30 PM EST Reads: 13,176 | By Open Source News Cassatt Corporation has announced the availability of Cassatt Collage 4.0. This version of Cassatt's flagship product includes new virtual machine and network virtualization control capabilities, helping organizations use automation to radically simplify data center management. Feb. 20, 2007 05:30 PM EST Reads: 17,976 | By Open Source News IBM has introduced what it calls the industry's first dashboard for major virtualization platforms, a thing called Systems Director, an extension to IBM Director. Users are supposed to be able to discover, monitor, and manage physical and virtual resources from a common portal across b... Feb. 19, 2007 04:30 PM EST Reads: 15,015 | By Open Source News IBM announced its extensive portfolio of middleware and systems platforms will support Novell's new SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 offerings. The new SUSE Linux Enterprise offerings incorporate the open source Xen virtualization software to help businesses increase server utilization and low... Feb. 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST Reads: 12,852 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News SpikeSource, a provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement with Hyperic Inc, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, to certify and resell the industry's leading open source systems management platform, Hyperic HQ(TM). Under terms of the agreem... Feb. 14, 2007 09:45 AM EST Reads: 10,988 | By Open Source News The OpenVZ project announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on Linux 2.6.9, including for the first-time in a stable branch, fully-tested and performance-tuned live migration and Virtual Ethernet device features. ... Feb. 13, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 13,817 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News MySQL has introduced what it calls an all-you-can-eat one-year 'Enterprise Unlimited' subscription to its database for $40,000. The 'unprecedented low price' looks like it's meant to dislodge existing site licenses for Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, IBM DB2 and Oracle - especially Oracl... Feb. 8, 2007 10:30 PM EST Reads: 13,697 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Having turned out an up-market storage engine for MySQL capable of heavy transaction loads supporting a lot of concurrent users, Solid Information Technology has sketched out its plans to add new features to solidDB for MySQL. Feb. 8, 2007 04:15 PM EST Reads: 9,936 | By Open Source News In a session this June at Enterprise Open Source Conference & Expo 2007, analyst Raven Zachary from The 451 Group will explore the emerging trend of proprietary software vendors transitioning to an open source business model, spurred by the success of open source software. Feb. 1, 2007 08:30 AM EST Reads: 10,390 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News In a session this June at Enterprise Open Source Conference & Expo 2007, analyst Raven Zachary from The 451 Group will explore the emerging trend of proprietary software vendors transitioning to an open source business model, spurred by the success of open source software. Feb. 1, 2007 05:00 AM EST Reads: 683 | By Open Source News 'The Linux Foundation helps in the next stage of Linux growth by organizing the diverse companies and constituencies of the Linux ecosystem to promote, protect, and standardize Linux,' said Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group, and now leader of The Linux F... Jan. 22, 2007 07:00 AM EST Reads: 11,130 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Despite Apple's attempts to make it all go away, the SEC, which is known to be sensitive about forged documents, has reportedly started poking around Apple and that imaginary October 19, 2001 board meeting that voted Steve Jobs options on 7.5 million backdated shares in Apple. And at t... Jan. 21, 2007 04:00 PM EST Reads: 7,009 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News HP has created a new division inside its software operation called the Business Information Optimization Group. The new unit will be broken into two groups, a business intelligence group and an information management group. The business intelligence group will handle HP's new BI initi... Jan. 21, 2007 03:45 PM EST Reads: 9,807 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News SmartGRAPE (http://www.smart-grape.org), an open source collaborative community working to improve predictive recommendationsystems for online buyers, announced the launch of its community codedevelopment system and the seeding of starter recommendation algorithms. Jan. 18, 2007 01:45 PM EST Reads: 11,208 | By Open Source News 'One of the major barriers to utilizing open source software is confusion of what options are available to IT managers and the benefits that these solutions bring to the enterprise,? said Bruno von Rotz, vice president of Optaros Switzerland, as Optaros this week announced the release ... Jan. 15, 2007 05:00 PM EST Reads: 9,061 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News TIBCO today announced that it has become a sponsor of Direct Web Remoting (DWR), the popular AJAX communications library. Jan. 10, 2007 07:45 AM EST Reads: 15,796 Replies: 2 | By Open Source News  At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year? Jan. 8, 2007 09:00 AM EST Reads: 17,120 | By Open Source News Pentaho, creator of the open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced the Google Code is featuring Pentaho?s AJAX-based integration with the Google Maps API. Pentaho?s example was selected as a compelling and innovative example of the flexibility and power of the Google Maps... Dec. 15, 2006 12:30 PM EST Reads: 9,250 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News IBM and seven leading U.S. universities announced new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to help promote an open approach to overcome university-industry intel... Dec. 14, 2006 10:15 AM EST Reads: 12,004 Replies: 2 | By Open Source News Liferay, provider of open source portal framework, announced the release of Liferay Portal 4.2. The latest version offers added back-end enhancements to workflow and content management via integration with ServiceMix JBI, jBPM workflow engine, and Alfresco, as well as new features such... Dec. 13, 2006 11:00 PM EST Reads: 14,248 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Unisys Corporation architected and managed a migration to an open source solution that has delivered dramatic benefits for UK stock brokerage firm Redmayne-Bentley. By moving its hardware platform, operating system and applications to a Linux environment on Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise... Dec. 13, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 11,043 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Open-Xchange, provider of open source collaboration software, announced that it has secured additional customer wins in the higher education market space. The Polytechnic of Namibia and the University Hospital of Cologne are using Open- Xchange Server to drive innovation in collaborati... Dec. 13, 2006 01:00 AM EST Reads: 8,558 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News 6th Sense Analytics, a pioneer in improving software development metrics, announced it will make its software solution available to academic groups and open source projects free of charge. By assisting these groups through automated collection of activity-based data, 6th Sense will act... Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,532 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Digium, the Asterisk company, announced that Aspect Software, a company solely focused on the contact center, has selected Digium?s Asterisk Business Edition IP PBX as the telephone infrastructure for its new corporate headquarters, to be located in Chelmsford, Mass. Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,125 Replies: 3 | By Open Source News Pentaho, creator of open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced another significant contribution to the open source project marrying the benefits of BI to the defect tracking systems. Specifically, Pentaho has developed and contributed a new application built on the Pentaho... Dec. 12, 2006 11:00 PM EST Reads: 9,693 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Intalio, The Open Source BPMS Company, announced that Intalio|BPMS Community Edition will be released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) amended with the Generic Attribution Provision submitted to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) earlier this year. Dec. 12, 2006 09:00 PM EST Reads: 10,134 Replies: 2 | By Open Source News Open Source Company, Vyatta announced the availability of version 1.1 of its Open Flexible Router (OFR), a high performance LAN and WAN routing solution for small and medium-sized businesses. The new release includes support for T3 WAN connections and provides compatibility with third-... Dec. 12, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 10,864 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News In light of the explosion in social networking web sites (MySpace, FaceBook, Xanga) the field of social network analysis (SNA) is hotter now than ever before. A new open source library released today (libSNA) helps social scientists and software developers rapidly create experiments an... Dec. 12, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 12,031 Replies: 2 | By Open Source News Covalent Technologies, supplier of complete enterprise open source solutions, announced that it is bundling Terracotta's clustering technology with Covalent's Enterprise Ready Server, the most widely distributed Web infrastructure framework in Fortune 500 enterprises that combines the ... Dec. 12, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,807 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Fortify Software in partnership with FindBugs, the open source Java error detection project, has launched the Java Open Review (JOR) Project. The JOR Project invites the open source software community to submit their Java software projects for a quality and security review. Dec. 12, 2006 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,983 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Novell announced the availability of openSUSE 10.2, the newest version of Novell's award- winning community Linux distribution. OpenSUSE 10.2 was created in full partnership with the open source community, and it provides everything a user needs to get started with Linux. Dec. 11, 2006 10:00 PM EST Reads: 10,319 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News Boingo Wireless announced that the Belkin Wi-Fi Phone for Skype is the first Wi-Fi device to ship with the Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit, an open-source software utility that enables Wi-Fi devices to roam on commercial hot spots. The Boingo Embedded software provides background detecti... Dec. 11, 2006 09:00 PM EST Reads: 7,901 Replies: 1 | By Open Source News ClearApp, a provider of model-driven application performance management (APM) solutions for portal, J2EE and SOA applications, has announced that its QuickVision 6.1 product can now improve performance for business applications running on two of today's most popular open source platfor... Dec. 11, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 9,203 Replies: 1 |
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Enterprise Open Source News Desk trawls the fast-growing world of Professional Open Source for business-relevant items of news, opinion, and insight.
