Open Source News

JasperSoft announced that Cincom Systems has selected the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite to power all Cincom BI applications. Cincom will standardize on JasperSoft as its business intelligence platform across its software offerings, extending the value of BI and reporting... (more)

Intalio announced an agreement with NTT Data Intramart to integrate Intalio products into Intra-mart, its Web platform. In conjunction with this integration, NTT Data Intramart will also add two new applications to the Intra-mart Web platform, a Risk and Control Matrix (RCM) and... (more)

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community announced the availability of NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment (IDE) Beta. NetBeans 6.1 Beta adds a rich set of features for JavaScript technology development, a key component for delivering AJAX web applications and tigh... (more)

JasperSoft, the open source business intelligence venture – which just last week was rattling off a bunch of numbers contending that it’s “the world’s most widely deployed BI suite” – said from the Open Source Business Conference in San Francis... (more)

Intalio announced Intalio|On Demand, an open source Business Process Management System delivered as a service. Intalio|On Demand is available by signing up at www.intalio.com/on-demand. The convenience of being able to deploy a BPM project lowers the bar for adoption. Business us... (more)

Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) Europe, the European chapter of the non profit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving the interoperability and mainstream adoption of comprehensive open solutions, announced its interim board of directors (BoD) and further details for its pl... (more)

AMD announced a new plug-in that provides the Eclipse community with increased performance management and monitoring of Java software code. Called “CodeSleuth,” this new plug-in delivers the functionality of AMD’s CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer, a suite of too... (more)

ActiveState announced an updated, open-sourced release of Komodo Edit, the popular and free editor for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. Komodo Edit, based on Komodo IDE, off... (more)

Presens Technologies is conducting a survey in partnership with Red Hat. The mailing, which will be sent to CIOs and IT managers across North and South Carolina, aims toward mapping current use or intended plans to implement open source technologies in the corporate IT environmen... (more)

Ringside Networks announced the Beta release availability of the Ringside Social Application Server — the open source platform that enables businesses to weave social capabilities into their existing websites while integrating with social networks such as Facebook. The open... (more)

Open source application developers Colosa and Knowledge Tree have announced a ‘mashup’ of their web-based applications (ProcessMaker and KnowledgeTree document management software) to help small to mid-sized businesses handle, manage and retrieve vital company documen... (more)

Appcelerator announced the launch of its new open source developer community, the Appcelerator Developer Network. "The response to our revamped developer community has been overwhelming,' said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. 'In just a few days, over 500 new community members ... (more)

JumpBox announced that it is launching JumpBox Open - giving users subscription access to their collection of time saving virtual appliances for Open Source applications. "In a nutshell, JumpBox Open brings simplicity, selection and time savings to the world of Open Source softw... (more)

InterSystems announced that the Swedish national electronic health record, known as the National Patient Overview (NPO) will be supplied by TietoEnator using InterSystems HealthShare software. The contract is valued at approximately $19 million for the first five years, with an o... (more)

SourceLabs announced a Self-Support offering for Linux, as well as a similar offering for open source Java. The tools and services give developers, corporate IT professionals, and their solution providers a new way to more effectively support open source software than large vendo... (more)

In order to deliver expanded support options to companies running their business operations on SAP applications and the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system, Novell and SAP announced an extension of their long-standing relationship. In a move that will help meet the growing dem... (more)

Sun Microsystems announced a small and medium-sized business (SMB) initiative that makes it easy and affordable for SMBs to buy Sun’s innovative, open source and reliable solutions. Sun is delivering complete, easy-to-deploy solutions that tackle many of the technology issu... (more)

XAware announced that its open source Plug-in for Salesforce is now available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers utilize the AppExchange to find additional applications to extend the benefits of SaaS throughout their business and operational objective... (more)

Moonwalk announced its latest Moonwalk software suite, with support for Novell’s Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2. Novell’s Open Enterprise Server 2 combines workgroup services from Novell with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, completing the Open Enterprise Server shift t... (more)

Vyatta confirmed its open source networking software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, providing enterprises and service providers relying on high-performance networks with a robust, open alternative to expensive proprietary routers. Scalability tests were performed usi... (more)