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OPERA, the Open PLC European Research Alliance for a new generation of Powerline Communications integrated network technology, has announced that all its targets have been achieved and the Project is ready for its final review by the European Commission experts. This achievement ... (more)

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Alfresco Software announced the general availability of Alfresco Labs 3 Stable. "This release is designed to be the open source content services platform for all Alfresco and non-Alfresco content applications from document management and web content management to wikis," said Jo... (more)

Fortify Software announced that it achieved record growth in Q4 2008, finishing a strong fiscal year 2008 with the largest quarter in company history. Most notably, Fortify increased its bookings in Q4 2008 80% over Q4 2007. The company attributes its success to new business grow... (more)

Vyatta announced that it grew revenues by almost 600 percent during 2008, with their customer count growing more than 150 percent. To date, the company's open networking software has been downloaded more than a quarter million times. The company additionally boasts partnerships w... (more)

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) announced the results of its 2009 Predictions Survey, which polls high-ranking open source business executives on their forecasts for the year ahead. The OSA survey results point to new opportunities and challenges for the commercial open source... (more)

DSS announced it will open source the code for its vxVistA electronic health record (EHR) framework, providing their version of VistA under a commercially-friendly open source license that can be used to unite the VistA community. Mark Byers, president and CEO of DSS, said "vxVi... (more)

Focusing on an evolving business environment in which mobile warriors and entrepreneurs need to improve efficiencies in the workplace and stay connected while on the go, Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, (TAIS), announce... (more)

Extentech announces an open source Java Alternative to Sharepoint and Google Docs, the 1.0 version of ExtenXLS 360, a document collaboration server for agile businesses. ExtenXLS 360 was created for corporate and SMB developers that need the flexibility and choice of a standards-... (more)

AccesStream has announced the beta release of its identity access management solution to the open source community, available for immediate download and testing from the company's website. The goal of the AccesStream project is to deliver an enterprise class solution offering aut... (more)

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 Dragoo... (more)

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. "We welcome the new capabilities in... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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,... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 so... (more)

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, SE... (more)

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 innov... (more)

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 a... (more)