Open Source News

Protecode announced an automated preventive Intellectual Property (IP) management solution. Protecode plug-in is a software development tool that unobtrusively manages IP by detecting and logging 100% of content entering a software project. Protecode logs, identifies and reports ... (more)

Intalio announced a partnership with Alfresco Software. The integrated offering of Intalio|BPMS and Alfresco ECM allows users to manage advanced document-centric workflow processes and support the collaborative development of complex business processes. "Our partnership with Alf... (more)

New Atlanta will be creating and distributing a free open-source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) version of BlueDragon, its ColdFusion-compatible web application server. It will be released under the popular GPL license, mirroring the licensing path chosen by MySQL an... (more)

Bluenog announced that MultiPlan has chosen Bluenog Rich Portal as its portal platform. Bluenog Rich Portal brings open source to enterprise IT shops in an affordable way. The platform is built on top of open source projects and Web 2.0 standards and integrates with today's leadi... (more)

Zoho announced Zoho People, its human resource management application for companies that want to run their businesses online. People joins Zoho’s suite of business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects, and Zoho DB. The new offering is ideal for small... (more)

Appistry unveiled a new initiative providing free and easy access to its grid-based application platform. The initiative introduces a new product, Appistry EAF Community Edition, an Open Distribution licensing model, and the company's new Peer2Peer developer portal. Appistry EAF... (more)

Metastorm announced that its software has been successfully deployed by the City of Richmond, an economically progressive city and Virginia’s capital, as the foundation to automate its citywide processes. “The Metastorm BPM suite has enabled us to build automated and ... (more)

PreEmptive Solutions launched its Evaluation Process Management (EPM) Service, a combination of software plus managed-services that provides visibility into – and control – over commercial software evaluations and beta software deployments. Software evaluations are t... (more)

Sun Microsystems and the Forum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terrestre (Forum SBTVD took a big step forward in providing an affordable alternative for DTV conversion. The organizations announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to join forces in the development ... (more)

NextMedium announced that Deutsch will be the first advertising agency to partner with and utilize the company's Embed platform to maximize brand integration opportunities for its clients. "We talk to producers, networks and content providers all the time, but NextMedium's platf... (more)

"Web developers never had it so good..." gushed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week as he contemplated how in addition to Glassfish and NetBeans, millions of developers could now look to Sun to provide them with MySQL - which, as of February 26, is now officially a part of Sun. "... (more)

InterSystems Corporation announced that it is ranked as a leader in customer affinity— an accurate measure of predicting customers' technology purchasing intentions and decisions, according to a marketing effectiveness study recently released by the Chief Marketing Officer ... (more)

McObject announced that NextPoint Networks has integrated McObject’s eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system in multiple applications within its IntelliConnect System product family, which enables operators to deliver intelligent, secure and scalable session management... (more)

LogLogic announced that software vendors Compliance Spectrum and UpperVision have used LogLogic’s Open Log Services API to integrate their offerings with LogLogic’s log management and intelligence (LMI) platform. Via LogLogic’s Open Log Services, joint customers... (more)

Sun Microsystems announced the latest additions to its open archive portfolio, adding a scalable, energy-conscious midrange modular library and tape drive. In addition, Sun introduced enhancements to archive data security and release of a multi-tiered archive appliance that will ... (more)

Zaheda Bhorat, Google's Open Source Programs Manager, has reiterated Google's position that Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) 'doesn't meet the criteria required for a globally-accepted standard.' The comment comes as the deadline approaches for ISO member bodies around the wor... (more)

Jcx.Software announced the availability of VS.Php 2.4 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This is the new edition to the VS.Php family of products. VS.Php users that are planning to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 should upgrade to this edition. VS.Php 2.4 continues to be providing u... (more)

PivotStor announced a tape library that combines LTO-4 tape’s reliability with SAS interface connectivity speed and the demonstrated economy of half-height drives.  The result is a full line of tape libraries that integrate more capacity, more data density, more bandwidth a... (more)

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), marked its one-year anniversary with three new members, a global focus, and advances toward seamless interoperability between commercial open-source applications.  “The commercial open-source industry is no longer in an early-adopter phas... (more)

McObject has added support for the KD-Tree, a database index with uses in spatial and pattern-matching applications, to its Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database system. For developers working with Perst, the KD-Tree expands coding efficiency and helps make Java an... (more)