Open Source News

Open source innovator and Snort creator, Sourcefire, announced the availability of OfficeCat, a free security tool that enables users to easily identify potentially threatening Microsoft Office files. Unlike products that detect attempts to exploit known Microsoft vulnerabilities... (more)

Palamida announced that Sterling Commerce has selected Palamida as its solution to manage and secure its use of open source software. By including Palamida solutions in the engineering lifecycle process, Sterling Commerce is taking an important step to reduce the business risks a... (more)

Apatar announced connectivity to IBM DB2, a family of relational database management system products from IBM that are widely used in enterprise applications, corporate ERP systems, and mainframes. The new connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset allows readi... (more)

"This is a nearly inevitable response to Open Social, which is backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo," noted Michael Arrington today as he predicted that "Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project." Arrington con... (more)

IONA announced that it has become a Silver Sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to consensus-based, collaborative software development. Financial sponsorship will help ASF to acquire servers and hard... (more)

Ingres announced an open source version of Ingres OpenROAD, the company’s platform for rapid application development. The open source version of Ingres OpenROAD is now available as a free download via the Ingres community website at http://community.ingres.com. By open-sour... (more)

Dimdim announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community. The new version, called Dimdim Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, nicknamed "Eagle," is completely free and available for download. Dimdim "Eagle" is a unified communica... (more)

Ingres announced that it has stepped up its involvement in the open source community to drive validation and adoption of open source. Among the company’s open source initiatives are the Ingres Janitors Project, Open Source Boot Camp and the Global Ingres University Alliance... (more)

Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in February 2009, with 6,000 authors and more than 850,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architect(s), programmer(s), and Web app developer(s). The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics ranging from ... (more)

OpenOffice.org is publicly beta testing OpenOffice 3.0, which is not recommended for production use. General release is expected in September. Aside from cosmetics, it will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and is capable of opening Office 2007 and 2008 for Mac OS X fil... (more)

Red Hat announced the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration ... (more)

Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide develo... (more)

Sun Microsystems and the global OpenSolaris community announced the availability of the OpenSolaris Operating System (OS). According to the company, OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration, offers the combination of innovation, plat... (more)

In his opening keynote at the annual CommunityOne open source developer conference, Ian Murdock, vice president for Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems, will discuss the increasing role communities play in the software industry, how technologies and the companie... (more)

'The world is moving to open source innovation, and Sun continues to lead that revolution,' said Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, as Sun reported its Q3 fiscal 2008 results. 'We continue to invest in the future created by open alternatives to proprietary technologies, best exemplifie... (more)

PrismTech announced that the two open-source middleware communities are merging their CORBA Component Model (CCM) initiatives, underpinning the company’s OpenFusion CCM offering. The Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group and the OW2 Consortium—with support and cont... (more)

Veteran Business Intelligence (BI) entrepreneur Ward Yaternick has released his latest business analytics product, nextanalytics 3.0, with industry-disruptive pricing, top-tier product functionality, and easy online distribution.  nextanalytics 3.0 emulates MySQL's strategy, off... (more)

Sun Microsystems announced the addition of developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. Over 3,000 members and 30+ projects w... (more)

Aras announced expanded operations throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa [EMEA] and opened an EMEA headquarters office in Solothurn Switzerland to meet the growing demand for the Aras Innovator enterprise software solutions. As part of the expansion, Aras plans to add sales ... (more)

Ingres announced the appointments of Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres, to the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors, and Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Ingres, to the board of directors of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA)... (more)