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April 9 Open Source News

2010-04-09T19:54:00.001+05:30

'Open source' doesn't mean what it used to
InfoWorld
Does your interpretation of an "open source product" match your vendor's? If you don't know, you may not be getting what you expect By Savio Rodrigues ...

Ruling Reverberates Through Open-Source Community
IndustryWeek
The decision provides answers to some key arguments within the open source community. Throughout the lengthy trials and litigation, SCO Group demanded ...

Open Source outfit snubs Linux
Tech Eye
While open source is associated with Linux, it seems that the writers of the software Songbird did not get that memo. Songbird developers Pioneers of The ...

VC funding for open source software is down, not out
NetworkWorld.com
Despite an unsteady worldwide economy, venture capital investment in open source software projects did better than expected last year — and seed funding ...

GroundWork, Eucalyptus Team Up on Open Source Cloud Management
Datamation
A new effort from a pair of commercial open source vendors is now ramping up to take on that cloud management challenge. Cloud technology vendor Eucalyptus ...

Failed open source VoIP deployment leads to hosted VoIP strategy
SearchUnifiedCommunications.com
By Jessica Scarpati, News Writer When budgets are crimped, open source voice over IP (VoIP) solutions look attractive -- a little extra work for a lower ...

Microsoft offers much-needed fix for Windows OSS development
Ars Technica
By Ryan Paul | Last updated April 8, 2010 3:17 PM Although Microsoft is beginning to acknowledge that the rich ecosystem of open source software can bring a ...

Canonical's services play: Revenue windfall or trap?
InfoWorld
Canonical was founded as a classic commercial open source venture. Until now, its core business has been providing commercial support and maintenance for ..

April 8 Open Source News

2010-04-08T19:56:00.001+05:30

IBM's Open Source Patent Pledge
Linux.com (blog)
For those of us that have worked for years in open source, rumors in the press of IBM "breaking its open source patent pledge" were met with a bit of dismay ...

Open Source Business Intelligence
MarketWatch (press release)
BOSTON, MA, Apr 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In recent research on the use of open source business intelligence published by Aberdeen Group, ...

Open source Qubes OS alpha available
NetworkWorld.com
By Tim Greene, Network World The security researcher who invented malware known as Blue Pill has come up with a secure open source operating system called ...

The post open-source world (already here?)
CNET
by Matt Asay Much as we in the open-source world may not like it, progress doesn't necessarily look like a heavily customizable system. ...

Visualizing open source projects and communities
LWN.net
Because the open source development model is massively decentralized and network-centric, it is by its nature the perfect domain for graph-based ...

SunGard Higher Education Unveils ERP Community Source Initiative
TMCnet
This helps SunGard Community Source Initiative in advancing its truly Open Digital Campus vision and exploit the benefits of open source without its ...

Open Source CRM-Based Marketing Automation: Eliminates Cold Calling
TMCnet
The books are peer-reviewed, professionally edited, and made available for free online access as well as under an open-source license, to educators and ...

Eucalyptus Ties With Groundwork
socalTech.com
Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems, a provider of software for managing cloud computing, has tied with GroundWork Open Source, a developer of open ..

April 8 SOA News

2010-04-08T19:55:00.001+05:30

Front Porch Digital Debuts DIVAsymphony(TM) Advanced SOA Framework for ...
Broadcast Newsroom
DIVAsymphony unites the complex operations of DIVArchive with the simplicity of an SOA-based architecture to yield a unified and agile approach to ...

Choice Hotels International Names Rain Fletcher as Vice President of ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
As an international keynote speaker on SOA, BPM and Agile Development Methodologies, Fletcher is a thought leader in these fields of technology, ...

New SOA-EERP Standards to Establish Service Quality, Rating and SLA
InfoQ.com
As the software industry has applied SOA to eBusiness deployments, self-optimizing systems... have become more feasible and more useful. ...

No Magic Announces the No Magic World Conference 2010
PR Web (press release)
Technology: will cover topics including: UML; requirements management; software/hardware development; SOA-ML, MDA; and other topics. Enterprise Architecture ...

Travelport extends IBM agreement through 2014 with zTPF
Tnooz (blog)
zTPF, the more modern version, allows users to modernize their applications by exploiting SOA and Web services." Travelport states its systems process up to ..

April 7 SOA News

2010-04-07T19:47:00.001+05:30

Three Things Wrong with SOA
ebizQ (blog)
By David Linthicum on April 6, 2010 7:27 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes SOA as a concept is getting old enough that we should really be expecting results these days. ...

Gartner Outlines Top 10 Technologies For P&C Insurance Industry
Insurance Business Review
... and the use of web services/service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables companies to deploy services instead of using one-to-one integration, ...

Podcast: Addressing Cloud Integration
ebizQ (blog)
By Joe McKendrick on April 6, 2010 6:10 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes Tim Vibbert, SOA/Cloud Chief and fellow contributor here at ebizQ, recently sat down with ...

Crosscheck Networks Helps Ease Enterprise Cloud Migrations
PR Newswire (press release)
And through Federated SOA with trusted business units and external trading partners, organizations can successfully navigate the regulatory and compliance ...

April 7 Open Source News

2010-04-07T19:45:00.001+05:30

Open-source Advocate Enters IBM Antitrust Fray
PC World
The most recent antitrust complaint was filed last month by TurboHercules, a small open-source software vendor in France. Mueller published a letter from ...

Moving to an Open Source LMS: 3 Stories
Campus Technology
With open source learning management systems offering an increasingly rich slate of features and add-ons, more schools are considering a move. ...

Eucalyptus, GroundWork As Allies: Cloud Stack Coming?
InformationWeek (blog)
Basically the two open source firms announced they have established a technical partnership. They are not producing products together, but they are ensuring ...

What's coming in the new Ubuntu Linux desktop?
Computerworld (blog)
"We've always felt that one of the most important things that we can bring, hopefully, to open source is popularity as a desktop OS. ...

3D Printing Helps Fuel Open Source Prosthetics Project
PSFK
The Open Prosthetics Project has been described as "an open-source collaboration that makes its innovation available to anyone." The idea is simple: use the ...

The future of MySQL in a post-Sun world
NetworkWorld.com
[ Follow the latest developments in open source with InfoWorld's Technology: Open Source newsletter. | Keep up to date on the key tech news and insights ...

Qualitix Clinical Research Co., Ltd. Selects the OpenClinica Enterprise ...
PR Web (press release)
Taiwanese contract research organization (CRO) seeks to enhance its global clinical trial IT infrastructure with leading open source solution. ...

North Korea mobilizes Red Star Linux rollout
Register
Critics have often contended open source is a communist movement, and now North Korea is following Cuba and China by building its own Linux operating system ..

April 6 SOA News

2010-04-06T20:57:00.001+05:30

Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs
Australian Techworld
The majority of businesses will embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has revealed. The results show that most ...

Oracle's Tuxedo 11g Redefines Mainframe Rehosting
Integration Developers
With its range of upgrades, Tuxedo 11g offers automated tooling, SOA-enablement and mainframe caliber integrity to cut complexity, cost and risk from ...

Sony puts the pieces together at NAB
Broadcast Engineering
The idea is to penetrate the enterprise-level content management and resource allocation market with a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative ...

IBM, Users Share 'Agile BPM' Secrets at Impact 2010
Integration Developers
IBM's recipe for success is what Big Blue calls 'Agile BPM,' a combination of SOA, Business Process Management (BPM) technologies. best practices, ...

France Televisions Selects Dalet to Modernize France 2 News Production
prMac (press release)
In addition to its innovative production tools, the Dalet enterprise solution delivers an SOA compliant Media Asset Management back-office infrastructure ..

April 6 Open Source News

2010-04-06T20:56:00.001+05:30

Does Open Source Offer the Best Alternative For an iPad Killer?
NetworkWorld.com
Will the iPad killer sport an open source base? By Alan Shimel on Mon, 04/05/10 - 5:02pm. All that glitters may not be gold when it comes to tablet ...

Medsphere Systems Markets Open Source Electronic Health Records System
Xconomy
Experts agree that electronic medical records can lower costs and improve care. Yet just 10 percent of US hospitals keep any computerized records, ...

Google Android Captures 9% Of Smart Phone Market
Social Media SEO
Android's mobile OS allows phone makers and carriers alike to offer a great dataphone that is both open source and a mobile web solution for customers. ...

Apple's iPad: A beginning, not end, to innovation
CNET
As recently documented for open-source software, for example, sometimes modifying source code is the absolute wrong thing to do. ...

DC Codeathon Event Gathers Developers of Open Source Projects for Government
Government Technology
"We will make the implementation of citability free and easy for government employees by providing modifications to free open source software, ...

IBM: Open Source's Friend? Not So Much Now
ComputerworldUK (blog)
IBM has made several major interventions at various critical junctures in the history of open source. For example, on 22 June 1998, it announced that it ...

OSCON Makes It Happen: O'Reilly Open Source Convention Reveals Program and ...
Media Newswire (press release)
Sebastopol, CA, April 5, 2010-Open source makes it happen in a world where technology and society change faster than ever before. OSCON, the O'Reilly Open ...

Will the Google-Adobe alliance benefit open source?
ZDNet (blog)
It should be noted that Adobe has taken some steps down the open source road as its relationship with Google has grown closer. Two Flash platforms were open ...

Buy Bitrix and then it is open
ZDNet (blog)
This is the "hybrid" model Bitrix claims offers the best of both the proprietary and open source worlds. You have to pay for the software. ..

April 5 SOA News

2010-04-05T21:05:00.002+05:30

NAB 2010: Sony to Pitch Process in Las Vegas
Broadcasting & Cable
Driving the demonstration will be Sony's new Media Backbone software, which is designed to bring the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach popular in ...

The Last Mile' Of Virtualization And Cloud Computing In Retail
Retail Solutions Online (press release)
... mediums have started up on this topic and they are full of folks talking about RIA (rich Internet applications), SOA (service oriented architecture), ...

April 5 Open Source News

2010-04-05T21:05:00.001+05:30

Hosted Exchange Veteran Makes Open Source Move
DABCC.com
Here's an interesting twist: Behshad Behnam, a veteran of hosted Exchange and SaaS-centric companies, has joined Open-Xchange to help drive the open source ...

Open Source: Computing for the masses
Al-Masry Al-Youm
Ahmed Gharbeia, Web Society Manager, after a session about Open Source, Creative Commons and the... At the El Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek, ...

Prefab Gives the Sourceless Source Codes, Kind Of
Overclockers Club
If you've ever modified the source code of an open source program, you know that it is possible to make the program work better for you, or perform better ...

Open cloud computing: Game changing technology for govts
FutureGov Magazine
Red Hat urges governments to implement cloud computing founded on both open standards and open source as de facto. Open Source technology by its nature, ...

Mozilla Wants Your Opinion on Open Web
OStatic (blog)
by Lisa Hoover - Apr. 05, 2010Comments (0) The open source community spends a lot of time kicking around the idea of an open Web and how best to develop ...

Pentaho release blends data integration, BI
InformationWeek
Most people think of Pentaho as an open-source business intelligence vendor. In fact, the company's most popular product is ETL software. ...

April 4 Open Source News

2010-04-04T22:37:00.001+05:30

Letting Go Is Hard to Do for Big Firms in Open Source Communities
Seeking Alpha (blog)
I used the column to link the research on open source and open innovation to the specific issues that big companies are having in surrendering control in ...

Open Source Sustainability?
Triple Pundit
By Leon Kaye | April 4th, 2010 View Comments Chances are that you have used a CRM (customer relationship management) tool for just about any job function. ..

OfficeSIP Communications Makes Its VoIP SIP Products Open Source
PR-USA.net (press release)
Established in 2007, OfficeSIP Communications has been developing open-source instant messaging and VoIP solutions for enterprises. ...

Open-source All in one Security Solutions (Part 1)
CIO
Today we can find a different Linux distribution for protecting the network infrastructure. Most of them are based on the opensource software and provide a ...

A further note about SCO v. Novell
ZDNet (blog)
... vacuous cheering from the groklaw hordes - but the groklaw people have it backwards: this decision was bad news for Linux and open source advocates. ...

Oshyn, Inc. Explains the Realities of Choosing Open Source Content Management ...
PR-USA.net (press release)
In this latest free white paper, "Open Source CMS: Is It Right for your Organization?", Oshyn, www.oshyn.com, shares and in-depth look at the pros and cons ...

Apache CouchDB Refreshes in NoSQL Push
InternetNews.com
Among open source database outfits, the movement is gaining steam, as they look to a community-based alternative to the traditional relational approach. ...

A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap
LWN.net
Make no mistake: Subversion is mature open source software. It works well for open source projects and -- in one of the biggest software coups of the last ...

Microsoft, Apple, Google - The Battle for Domination
Desicritics.org
What is clear is that, as much as technology enthusiasts complain about Microsoft's lack of open source technology support, Apple is quietly doing the same, ..

April 3 Open Source News

2010-04-04T22:35:00.001+05:30

Network World launches Open Source Subnet
NetworkWorld.com
By Open Source Subnet on Fri, 04/02/10 - 12:08pm. I'm pleased to announce our news. Network World has launched a new Subnet community, the Open Source ...

Intel, Nokia open up source code of MeeGo mobile OS to outside developers
TopNews New Zealand
The release of the MeeGo distribution infrastructure and operating system base to open source developers included images pertaining to three builds – namely ...

The Push for Open-source Clouds
Server Watch
Mandriva, along with IELO and Nexedi, have formed the Free Cloud Alliance to promote cloud-based infrastructure that uses open-source products. ...

Aras Announces Aras Community Event 2010 for Enterprise Open Source PLM ...
PR.com (press release)
An exciting new addition to this year's ACE 2010 agenda is the open source Community Solution Showcase – which provides an opportunity for attendees to see ...

OfficeSIP Communications Makes Its VoIP SIP Products Open Source
PR.com (press release)
OfficeSIP Communications makes its two enterprise VoIP SIP clients officially open-source. OfficeSIP Softphone and OfficeSIP Messenger are now publicly ...

Open source prosthetics
Boing Boing (blog)
NPR described the creator, Jonathan Kuniholm's mission, as an "open-source collaboration that makes its innovations available to anyone. ...

Open Source Firewalls - Untangle and pfSense comparison
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Before this week I had no idea these firewalls even existed, and the only open source routing/firewall software I even knew of at the time was Vyatta; ...

Exclusive: CRC Open-Source Intelligence Briefs
Family Security Matters
NORTH AMERICA: Christopher Holton, a vice president with the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the director of the CSP's Divest Terror Initiative, ...

Most HITS readers would consider open-source EHR
ModernHealthcare.com
Asked: "Would you consider using an open-source electronic health-record system in your hospital or physician office?" 93 of the 139 poll takers, ...

Bitrix Hybrid Licenses Consolidate Flexibility of Open Source and Assurance of ...
PR-inside.com (press release)
2010-04-02 20:15:05 - The new hybrid licensing model offers the flexibility and openness of open source along with the guarantees, confidence, and attention ..

April 3 SOA News

2010-04-04T22:34:00.001+05:30

Blast from the Past: Will Y2K Patches Trip Up SOA? (2)
ebizQ (blog)
In an SOA scenario, one system may have a different pivot than another. Data migration could be an issue. Each system may have been "an island of Y2K ...

'Cloud' means something important
CNET
Now, we just need to figure out how virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA) fits into this, and we'll have a taxonomy with a cherry on top! ...

Which IT buzzwords baffle you most?
GCN.com
The most confusing acronym: SOA (service-oriented architecture). Clearly, these word mavens don't spend a lot of time around government, because when it ..

April 2 Open Source News

2010-04-02T21:41:00.001+05:30

Intel, Nokia Open MeeGo To Developers
InformationWeek
What's available has been placed in online repositories made available Wednesday to open source developers, Imad Sousou, director of Intel's Open Source ...

Open Source Code for Consumer Software: Coming Soon
TMC Net
By Marisa Torrieri Open source apps aren'ta new concept in telecom, where companies proudly, and frequently, band together to shun "proprietary" standards. ...

Mozilla Labs Explores Open Source Design
BusinessWeek
Mozilla helped pioneer open source software for its Firefox browser. Now it's soliciting open source design ideas in a series of competitions By Venessa ...

Former Sun open source officer joins OSI board
NetworkWorld.com
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld Simon Phipps, who was chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems for the past five years, has become a member of the Open Source ...

Crowdsourcing and open source: where we are now
BusinessWeek (blog)
We just published a collection of articles on the state of play within open source design and innovation. It's an interesting bunch of pieces, ...

Why Toyota Should Go Open Source
BusinessWeek
The software development equivalent of kaizen, of course, is open-source software. As the chief executive of Red Hat, the world's leading provider of ...

Ingres: Catalyst For Open Source In Governments
Katonda
Ingres Corporation and OpTech have entered into a strategic reseller agreement to bring open source solutions to government agencies across North America. ...

What Does a Paying Open Source Customer Look Like?
NetworkWorld.com
Sure open source is free, yet there are thousands paying good money to use it. Here is a profile of one such customer and why they do it. ...

Oshyn, Inc. Explains the Realities of Choosing Open Source Content Management ...
PR.com (press release)
There are right and wrong reasons for choosing Open Source CMS or WCM platforms and explains why Open Source CMS is not free and can actually come with a ...

Tech Hiring Poised For Recovery -- And Open Source Leads The Way
Datamation
In particular, open source companies seem to be emerging from the downturn quickly. Open-source firms like Jaspersoft, Sonatype, and MuleSoft need to bump ..

April 2 SOA News

2010-04-02T21:40:00.001+05:30

Oz Agency Modernizes With SOA
ebizQ (blog)
By Joe McKendrick on April 1, 2010 11:46 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes I've noticed an interesting trend in SOA implementation stories over the past year. ...

Oracle's Tuxedo gets a more modern cut with SCA, Ruby and Python
SearchSOA
"We've done quite a bit of modernization of the core platform so that it is built around modern SOA architecture," said Ajay Patel, VP of Fusion Middleware ...

Revenge of the Y2K Bug - Some 'Fixes' Strike Back
IT Business Edge (blog)
It turns out, companies using SOA to integrate legacy system are unearthing ugly code dating back to the Y2K fixes, according to a recent Joe McKendrick ...

Vendormate Receives 4th Consecutive TOP 40 Innovative Georgia Technology ...
WebWire (press release)
Vendormate's innovations in 2009 included investing heavily in its next generation platform based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). ...

April 1 SOA News

2010-04-01T21:12:00.001+05:30

Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs
NetworkWorld.com
By Anh Nguyen, Computerworld UK The majority of businesses will embrace Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has ...

Epicor ships ERP update 'for the recovery'
BusinessWeek
The software uses an SOA (service-oriented architecture) framework, allowing modules to be easily added as well as integrated with the company's legacy ...

Building Applications in the Cloud
Stores
In hopes of bypassing much of this process, you decide to include the new approach of employing software-as-a-service (SaaS) operating in an SOA-based cloud ...

CIC Introduces Enhanced Capabilities for On-Demand Straight-Through Processing ...
ebizQ
SignatureOne Ceremony Server 2.0 delivers enhancements which support industry directions related to SOA and Cloud Computing for deployed on-premise or ...

Release 5.3 of the inubit BPM-Suite Available Now
ebizQ
In addition, there are significantly more simulation options and the SOA Maps offer a new diagram type. As always, compliance with standards and the ...

Oracle Introduces Oracle(R) Tuxedo 11g
CNNMoney.com (press release)
Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, this SOA-ready platform provides a standards-based, metadata-driven application development model with support for ...

Business Rules Management - the Missing Link?
InfoQ.com
For a while now, attempts of improving SOA implementations included its integration with BPM. According to James Taylor, a missing link in this undertaking ..

April 1 Open Source News

2010-04-01T21:10:00.001+05:30

Companies Create Alliance to Push Open Source Clouds
PC World
The Free Cloud Alliance was formed to show that companies can build a cloud-based infrastructure using open source products, according to Jean-Paul Smets, ...

MeeGo gets going: source code and developer builds available
Ars Technica
By Ryan Paul | Last updated April 1, 2010 6:05 AM In a statement today at the official MeeGo community Web site, Intel Open Source Technology Center ...

Linux and Open Source
ZDNet (blog)
Or would the community be better off taking the most recent purely open source version and just forking it? Can they, when Oracle controls the copyrights? ...

New Application Could Make All Software 'open Source'
PC World
... according to researchers at the University of Washington who are working on a project that could essentially make any proprietary software open source. ...

Who's Making Money From Open Source in the Cloud?
GigaOm (blog)
31, 2010, 5:00pm PDT No Comments At this morning's Bunker Session, the central question of the relationship between cloud computing and open-source software ...

An open source contract for feral cats
ZDNet (blog)
Put an open source contract out on them. Dobin O. Robin, who works at the 1st Institute of Learning in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, is addressing a real ...

CoApp: An open-source package-management system for Windows
ZDNet (blog)
Open-source developers need a better way to get current binaries, compilers and libraries they need to get their software working on Windows, Serack said. ...

Enterprise Open Source is Booming
NetworkWorld.com
Amid indicators of an improving macro economic picture are glimpses that the open source market has not only survived the great recession, but in fact is ...

Bitrix Hybrid Licenses Consolidate Flexibility of Open Source and Assurance of ...
PR Newswire (press release)
You can find more details about the Bitrix hybrid licensing model in a dedicated white paper "Opposites attract: how can the flexibility of open source and ..

March 31 Open Source News

2010-03-31T20:29:00.001+05:30

Oracle will cut Sun's open source
Inquirer
By Nick Farrell ENTERPRISE IT VENDOR Oracle's relationship with the open source software portfolio it bought along with Sun Microsystems appears to be in ...

Linux and Open Source
ZDNet (blog)
"We own the copyrights and we will continue to protect the open source community, including Linux." SCO trustee Edward Cahn immediately sent out a release ...

iPad hacks for fun and profit
ZDNet (blog)
Given the large amount of Open Source code available, it is not unreasonable to assume that we will see Python, PHP, Rails and a full implementation of ...

Exclusive Event: Cloud Computing & Open Source
GigaOm (blog)
As cloud computing hits its stride, one of the many questions being raised is the degree to which the open source movement has enabled enterprise cloud ...

Open-Source Success: Alfresco Software Reports Record Revenues
ReadWriteWeb (blog)
Alfresco Software reported record revenues today, providing a signal that open-source technologies are a top choice for the enterprise as the economy moves ...

Murphy's Law: Stop Supporting Open-Source Bloat
Maximum PC
Well, that's the great contradiction in both the open-source and freeware worlds. Everyone loves software that performs a unique task (or replicates the ...

You may want to avoid hacking your open-source CMS
FierceContentManagement
It's a story that illustrates the issues companies face when highly customizing an open source content management system. According to Gottlieb, when The ...

BrainParty's awesome minigames go open source
Downloadsquad (blog)
by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Mar 30th 2010 at 3:01PM BrainParty is extremely popular on the App Store at $0.99, packing 36 fun puzzle games into a single ...

Ingres' open source rebirth drives value for AAH Pharmaceuticals
Information Age
In 2005, two years after it had made the software available under an open source license, CA sold a majority stake in Ingres Corp to a private equity firm. ...

The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference is coming
TheDigitel
Registration opened last week for the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON,) the premier free and open source software confence in Columbia, ...

March 31 SOA News

2010-03-31T20:26:00.001+05:30

IDC: Cloud, BPM Will Boost SOA Spending
ebizQ (blog)
Spies adds that interest in cloud computing is also a catalyst for new SOA sales. Anh Nguyen provides a report on Spies' statements in Network World. ...

SOA Roundup: Mashupmania, Beatlemania, Cloud Hogwash
ebizQ (blog)
Peter Schooff opened a recent ebizQ readers' forum with the question: "Are Users Now Capable of Doing Their Own Front-End SOA Development? ...

Blast from the Past: Will Y2K Patches Trip Up SOA?
ebizQ (blog)
Now, the SOA angle: People moving to better integrate these systems as part of service orientation efforts may hit these funky fixes, making things really ...

Most IT directors look to SOA to cut costs
ComputerworldUK
By Anh Nguyen, ComputerworldUK The majority of businesses will embrace Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) in an effort to cut costs, a new survey has ...

Cloud Computing Is Like No Other Technology Wave
SYS-CON Media (press release)
The genesis of the actual term "cloud computing" is slightly fuzzy, just like the genesis of "Java" OR "SOA" OR "blogging" - somehow one difference between ..

March 30 Open Source News

2010-03-30T19:14:00.001+05:30

KuwaitNet & Redington Value underline importance of open source solutions
Al-Bawaba
Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, along with its Kuwait partner, KuwaitNet, discussed the importance of open source ...

How Much to Charge for Cloud Based Open Source?
NetworkWorld.com
xTuple becomes the latest open source provider to offer a trial in the cloud. The question is what do you charge By Alan Shimel on Mon, 03/29/10 - 12:24pm. ...

Alfresco Strengthens Open Source ECM Market Leadership with Record Q4
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Business Wire Alfresco Software, the leader in open source ECM today announced the closing of its 2009 fiscal year ending February 28 th with 61 percent ...

Zenoss: Open Source Infiltrates Large Service Providers?
MSPmentor
Zenoss, which makes open source server and network monitoring software, has a message for service providers: The company's software has successfully landed ...

Preprint: Open Source Electronic Resource Management System: A Collaborative ...
ResourceShelf (blog)
Librarians and strategists at Simon Fraser University (SFU) have collaborated with a team of middle-sized libraries to expand the open-source CUFTS ...

Portland publishes its Google Fiber application
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com (blog)
... we were the first: Open Source" city (September 2009) to place open source software on a level playing field with proprietary software in all ...

Red Hat Moves Into Desktop Virtualization
PC World
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Service Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ..

March 30 SOA News

2010-03-30T19:12:00.000+05:30

Bull and Vordel Combine Forces to Offer Security and Performance for SOA
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Mar 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vordel, a provider of Cloud and SOA Governance products today announced at the Bull Security Conference, ...

Including startups in your SOA infrastructure: A guide for enterprise architects
ZDNet (blog)
Yet, in an environment where we are left with just a handful of incumbent companies remaining in the SOA infrastructure landscape, and these vendors have ...

SOA is not dead, says IDC
Australian Techworld
Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by 2013, according to analyst house IDC. ...

A Practical Approach to the Private Cloud Debate
IT Business Edge (blog)
Almost all of the SOA technology players have 'cloud washed' their products and messaging to use 'Cloud.' Indeed, almost every day I'm told that 'We're no ..

March 29 Open Source News

2010-03-29T19:23:00.001+05:30

Start-up Abiquo manages public, private clouds via open source
NetworkWorld.com
Open source software gets Microsoft Hyper-V support, automated virtual machine conversion features to better enable heterogeneous cloud management ...

Open Source ERP Heads into the Cloud
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: As the CEO of xTuple, Ned Lily will be the first to tell you that he's not sure exactly how much traction open source ERP applications are going to ...

JumpBox Unveils 'Open Source as a Service' and Empowers Businesses with ...
PR Web (press release)
JumpBox, provider of services that amplify the usefulness of Open Source server software, today unveiled "Open Source as a Service," a utility-based ...

Microsoft Pledges Support For Open Source
eWEEK Europe UK
The open-source project is "designed to foster interoperability and make Eclipse a first-class tool on the Microsoft platform," Microsoft said, ...

Open source tool to mange electronic petitions
UKauthorITy.com
A first version of an open source tool to help manage electronic petitions has been published on the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) for ...

Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe
ComputerworldUK (blog)
Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent Digital Agenda ...

Android Devices Crave Google's Attention
Wired News
Though Android is free and open source, Google exercises control over what devices can access the Android Market's applications and receive extensive ...

For Open Cloud Computing, Look Inside Your Data Center
GigaOm (blog)
However, the writing on the wall suggests that, from the customer's perspective, open source and open standards might be changing things for the better. ...

NVIDIA dropping support for new GPUs in the nv driver
The H
NVIDIA has announced that it is dropping the support for new GPUs, such as the forthcoming Fermi, from it's open source xf86-video-nv driver for X11. ...

Actuate Receives MarketTools CustomerSat Achievement in Customer Excellence ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications ..

March 28 Open Source News

2010-03-28T22:07:00.001+05:30

3 Reasons Why The Nexus One Phone Will Thrive
Social Media SEO
Google has always embraced the open source community with their products, and the Google Nexus One phone is no different. Because the Nexus One is driven by ...

A New View: Introducing Doc Viewer 2.0
New York Times (blog)
This is the version of document viewer we will be releasing as open source software in the very, very near future. More on that when we are closer to ...

xTuple ERP 3.5 Adds Cloud Computing, Drop Ship and Time Entry
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
By Editorial Staff Norfolk, VA — March 26, 2010 — Open source ERP specialist xTuple has taken the wraps off version 3.5 of its eponymous enterprise resource ..

March 27 Open Source News

2010-03-27T19:26:00.001+05:30

Mickos: What's bigger than open source?
CNET
He answered with a question, "What's bigger than open source?" and then suggested that his search for an answer would lead him to his next job. ...

Exadel Fiji: new forum, issue tracker, JavaFX support, open source soon
SYS-CON Media (press release)
We are working on Fiji version 2.0 which is going to be open source and also include a new tag to wrap any JavaFX applet as JSF component. ...

NVIDIA Ends Linux Open-Source Driver Support
Benchmark Reviews
NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that provides ...

IBM Uses Open-source Server Technology to Test Cloud
Server Watch
"Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced that IBM has selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud ...

Microsoft Extends Commitment to Open Source
eWeek
Microsoft continues to express its commitment to open-source software, most recently at EclipseCon and the Open Source Business Conference. ...

5 'Great' Open-source Desktop Security Applications
NetworkWorld.com
ClamAV & ClamWinClamWin is a lightweight and simple open source software anti-virus program for Windows. It features automatic updates, a schedule scanner, ...

Making Sense of Open Source Diversity
ITworld.com
I know that apps for Linux, and open source apps in general, are free and easy to download and install. They are also numerous. Very. ...

Microsoft Newly Embracing Open Source Makes Sense
NetworkWorld.com
Microsoft seems to be spending a lot of time lately trying to convince the open source world it really means it no harm. And, just maybe, it's true. ...

Why Open Source Rules for Collaboration Software
LinuxInsider.com
In this category, the very nature of open source software gives it a clear advantage. It doesn't seek to own the platform, the protocol, the exchange format ...

ZeuApp Downloads 82 Awesome Open Source Apps
Lifehacker
Windows: If you're setting up a new system or helping a friend to see how much great free and open source software exists, ZeuAPP is a portable installation ..

March 27 SOA News

2010-03-27T19:25:00.001+05:30

Mystery: Why are enterprise IT startups vanishing?
ZDNet (blog)
I few days ago, I described the phenomenon of "cloudwashing" now taking place among SOA vendors as they shift to the hottest trend in the market. ...

IT Pros Aren't Happy With Enterprise Apps
InformationWeek
Oh, sure, they're using these technologies here and there, but few survey respondents are confident that SOA, SaaS, or BPM can handle everything. ...

March 26 Open Source News

2010-03-26T20:08:00.001+05:30

Former MySQL CEO: More successful open source startups needed
NetworkWorld.com
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend, the one-time ...

Commercial Add Ons to Open Source Software: aheadWorks and Magento
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Si Chen Here's an open source business model that's creeping up on us: Selling add-ons to open source software. For under $100, you can buy predesigned ...

WordPress Founder: Open Source Is About People, Not Technology
FTC Publications
Now one of the biggest forces in social media, founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg, has taken the stage to speak about the open source movement, the origins ...

Open source channel buoyant as Red Hat sales surge
CRN - UK
UK VARs have reported a turnaround in end-user attitudes towards open source software, just as Linux kingpin Red Hat posted a double-digit sales surge. ...

Ada Lovelace will have her day after all
Irish Times
Anyone can join an open-source project. Communally run, you need no interviews or prior experience to contribute. All you need is a computer and an internet ...

Let's Not Deride Open Core
OStatic (blog)
25, 2010Comments (0) Open core remains one of the biggest topics in the open source world, as John discussed here. In essence, of course, the term refers to ...

Future of Open Source Survey - Results
Smart Data Collective (blog)
The continued growth of open-source generally was a prevalent theme. For example, did you know that more than 19000 open-source projects were initiated in ...

TurboHercules Files a Complaint against IBM
TMCnet
TurboHercules is the first commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Hercules, the well-known open source software implementation of the IBM (News - Alert) ...

WeWebU Turns 10 and Gives out Presents
RealWire (press release)
The Open Source edition will support all CMIS-enabled ECM platforms, eg Alfresco, and will be released in early July. A fully supported commercial version ..

March 26 SOA News

2010-03-26T20:06:00.001+05:30

IDC: Business spending on SOA to grow 25% over next three years
ZDNet (blog)
In case you were wondering, SOA is doing fine, thank you. And growing, big time. That's the word from Ruediger Spies, vice-president of enterprise ...

JBoss Updates Open Source SOA Platform for BRMS, Cloud
Integration Developers
Red Hat is shipping JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0, an upgrade to its foundation open source SOA ESB-based platform with new support for business rules ...

As SOA Matures, Guidelines Clear Up About When and Where to Use It
IT Business Edge (blog)
Initially, there was a lot of talk about how SOA would solve integration problems. I know the analysts quickly moved away from that, but is integration ...

SOA Spending on the Rise. Surprised? Here's Why
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: IDC this week announced a new prediction for service-oriented architecture: Business spending on SOA will increase by 25 percent, with businesses ...

SOA is not dead, says IDC
NetworkWorld.com
By Anh Nguyen Www.computerworlduk.com, Computerworld UK Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by ...

Assuring SOA Success
ebizQ (blog)
By ebizQ on March 25, 2010 11:10 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes In trying to be successful with SOA, I think this is an important discussion. ...

Red Hat does right by JBOSS
ZDNet (blog)
Four years on from its acquisition you can argue that Red Hat overpaid for JBOSS, the open source Java middleware company. You can argue they took a while ..

March 25 Open Source News

2010-03-25T19:40:00.001+05:30

GroundWork Open Source Launches Enterprise Quickstart + Zendesk Connector ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 24, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (GWOS http://www.gwos.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and ...

IBM on antitrust defense in Europe
ZDNet (blog)
By tying use of its mainframe software to IBM hardware, TurboHercules charges, IBM is preventing open source from competing. The company's complaint said it ...

Questioning open-core licensing for open source software
InfoWorld
Prentice writes: "The VC communities' interest in open source, as I see it, is based on the view that a project's associated community will lower ...

Finding God Through Open Source
NetworkWorld.com
Can the open source process help make religion more meaningful and relevant to those who don't find it so? By Alan Shimel on Wed, 03/24/10 - 1:49pm. ...

A Teachable Moment: Open Source Platforms for Online Testing
NetworkWorld.com
A new study says there might be room for open source testing software in statewide assessments. By Amy Vernon on Wed, 03/24/10 - 2:45pm. ..

New Release of OrangeHRM's Open Source HRM Software
24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
OrangeHRM is an open-source human resources management platform, so the product is available for download at no cost. Having access to powerful management ...

Korea Struggles in Developing Open Software
Korea Times
By Kim Tae-gyu Korea's lackluster performance in open-source software continues to hit the country both at home and abroad. The state-run National IT ...

Google Releases Open-Source Web App Security Scanner Skipfish
Web Host Industry Review
... giant Google (www.google.com) has released an open source web application scanner that lets developers check their applications for security holes. ..

March 25 SOA News

2010-03-25T19:39:00.001+05:30

SOA is not dead, says IDC
ComputerworldUK
By Anh Nguyen www.computerworlduk.com Business spending on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) will grow by up to 25 percent worldwide by 2013, according to ...

Vordel working with Dell, Amazon to secure...
Siliconrepublic.com
Dublin-headquartered Vordel, which has offices in the States and origins in XML and SOA governance products, has in the past year added 32 customers to its ...

Report: Redpoint's Martin Leaving Firm
socalTech.com
Martin had led Redpoint's investment in Networks in Motion, TelASIC Communications, WebVisible, SOA Software, and a number of other local firms. ...

Moving Existing Applications into the Cloud
CTO Edge (blog)
... designed to be run as a service, so they don't support modern application interfaces such as Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA). ..

March 24 Open Source News

2010-03-24T20:32:00.001+05:30

Open-source SaaS to expand software capability
EDL Consulting
The development of open-source SaaS software will result in an increased availability of software that provides great flexibility for enterprise and ...

With a New CEO, How Much Is Eucalyptus Worth? $100M?
GigaOm (blog)
based company based on an open-source cloud management platform, last week shuffled its management deck — it replaced Woody Rollins with former MySQL chief ...

IBM Faces New EU Competition Complaint on Mainframes
BusinessWeek
"This conduct prevents TurboHercules from providing its product to mainframe customers desiring an open-source solution," TurboHercules Chairman Roger ...

Google rivaled by open source in angel investing?
CNET
Some, like several of the most successful open-source entrepreneurs, choose to invest time rather than money. And sometimes both. ..

Is Open Source the Answer to Residential Demand Response?
Earth2Tech (blog)
18, 2010, 9:00am 2 Comments OpenADR — the Berkeley Labs open source system for automating the way utilities do demand response — is already being used to ...

Right to reply: Brown's digital future needs to be open source
Netimperative
In this Right to Reply article, Steve Shine, executive vice president of worldwide operations, Ingres, the open source database provider, looks at why any ...

GigaOM Bunker Session Coming Up: On the Cloud and Open Source
OStatic (blog)
23, 2010Comments (0) Does the enterprise know that FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is a big foundation of its next phase of computing and will it actively ...

What Google can deny China
ZDNet (blog)
I'm talking more here of the open source process, the casual, day-by-day sharing of tips, techniques, and help that let American companies like IBM extend ...

Abiquo tackles next gen cloud management
ZDNet (blog)
One Barcelona, Spain company is launching a US office and a new generation of its open source cloud management software. Abiquo, which will be based in ...

Rumor: Palm May Ditch WebOS for Android
Wired News
It should open-source it 100% to attract developers. It's a great OS. Better at multitasking than any other. Actually, the Droid is an iPhone in terms of ..

March 24 SOA News

2010-03-24T20:31:00.001+05:30

SOA Software Announces Advanced Policy and Security Federation for SOA and ...
Review seeker (press release) (subscription)
Policy Manager 6.0 Provides Planning, Development and Operational Policy Governance for SOA and Cloud Services By marketwire LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) ...

EclipseCon 2010: Red Hat updates SOA tools
The H
According to a post on the JBoss blog by Pierre Fricke, Red Hat's JBoss SOA product line Director, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform v5 is aimed at delivering ...

The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions
ZDNet (blog)
On-premise vendors keep getting confused with their legacy SOA platforms and a PaaS. While both can do many of the same things, on-premise SOA platforms ...

What To Do with Your CRM Systems After a Merger?
Computerworld
Unless you've used a comprehensive integration broker, SOA, or ESB, extricating a CRM system involves a lot of technical risk. OK fine. ...

What IT cares about: Key technologies for 2010
InfoWorld
SOA: 45 percent are actively following the technology and 26 percent have deployed it. Analytics: 44 percent are actively following the technology and 47 ...

Avaya's ACE: Tara Mahoney
No Jitter (blog)
Agile Communications Environment (ACE) is front and center, providing SOA-based integration capabilities between the enterprise communications components ...

The Register Guide to improving systems agility
Register
On the other hand, selective and manageable adoption of virtualization, SOA and alternative sourcing options can make a tangible difference to service ...

March 23 SOA News

2010-03-23T20:58:00.001+05:30

Red Hat Delivers New JBoss Tools, SOA Platform at EclipseCon
eWeek
Red Hat has announced new Java development tools as well as a new version of its service oriented architecture (SOA) platform at EclipseCon 2010. ...

SOA vendors embark on 'cloudwashing'
ZDNet (blog)
Perhaps it's a good thing we had SOA to noodle around with before cloud came along big time. Dave Linthicum, an entrepreneur extraordinaire himself, ...

Software AG Marries BPM with Communications
Integration Developers
Software AG is bringing together new dimensions of SOA and BPM with the launch of its webMethods Communicate BPM, a product that enables companies to easily ...

Building private clouds: 3 dos and 3 don'ts
InfoWorld
Do make sure to leverage SOA. While many look at private clouds as simple virtualized resources, those building successful private clouds are working from ...

Global Enterprise Service Bus Market is Projected to Reach $639.1 Million by ...
PR Web (press release)
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and ESBs as its prime enabler, are emerging into one of the few recession resistant software investments with a growing ...

Mitre 10 taps open source for fast BI win
CIO Australia
"Red Hat rolled out on Monday updates to its SOA platform and development tools in the company's ..." "National hardware equipment chain Mitre 10 has ..

March 23 Open Source News

2010-03-23T20:56:00.001+05:30

Former MySQL Chief Lands at Eucalyptus
New York Times (blog)
Marten Mickos, the former chief executive of MySQL, will soon be named the chief executive of Eucalyptus, another open-source software maker. ...

TurboHercules SAS Files Formal Complaint against IBM with the European ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TurboHercules' complaint alleges that IBM is preventing customers from using Hercules --- an open-source mainframe emulator developed in Europe and ...

How a Couple of ex-Microsoft Guys Built An Open Source Powerhouse
NetworkWorld.com
But two ex-Microsofties have leveraged the open source model to catapult to the top of the heap in the collaboration space in just a few short years. ...

Google open sources web app security scanner
Register
Google has released an open source security scanner designed to seek out holes in, yes, web applications. Dubbed Skipfish, this web app "security ...

Open source finds its way into CFD trading
NetworkWorld.com
By Jan Kovar, IDG News Service As open source platforms become more popular, they find their way into less usual areas than before. ...

Open Source ECM Provider Nuxeo Eyes Global Expansion
TMCnet
By Anamika Singh, TMCnet Contributor Nuxeo, a provider of Open Source Enterprise Content Management, has announced that it has seen significant growth in ...

Omni Bridges Gap between SugarCRM and Exchange at Open Source CRM Event
TMCnet
By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributor Omni Technology Solutions (News - Alert) will present at open source CRM provider SugarCRM's 2010 SugarCon event in ...

Why Webscale Companies Need open Source
OStatic (blog)
George Santayana wasn't talking about open source when he said that, of course, but it applies to the lessons of proprietary software just as well. ...

Open Source: Next generation Focuses on Data
Formtek Blog (blog)
By Dick Weisinger, on March 22nd, 2010 First there was Open Source — for software. The next phase is about data — Open Data. And local, state and federal ...

After rejecting bid, Novell open to sale
Boston Globe
Today, Novell is the second-largest vendor of Linux open-source operating system software, trailing only Red Hat Inc. of Raleigh, NC Novell also makes ..

March 22 Open Source News

2010-03-22T19:29:00.001+05:30

AMD ATI fights Nvidia's grasp of 3D market with open source - Open Stereo 3D
Digit
It does this in typical Advanced Micro Devices style, by setting the open source atmosphere with what it calls Open Stereo 3D. Similar to its Open Physics ...

Kicking in Open Doors: Open Source Is Not a Democracy
OS News
Open source or Free software does not mean democracy. It's more NATO and less UN (if that makes any sense). The Linux kernel project, GNOME, ...

MindTouch announces most powerful voices in Open Source
Siliconindia.com
By siliconindia news bureau Bangalore: MindTouch has come up with a list of 50 most influential and powerful voices in Open Source today. ...

Comcast, ISC release IPv6 transition open source software
Telecompaper (subscription)
US cable operator Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have released their new open source software developed to ease the industry's transition to ...

Group seeks advances in data center design
Computerworld
By James Niccolai IDG News Service - A new industry group plans to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers in order to ...

ARM Helps Bridge the Gap between Consumer Products and Automotive Infotainment
MarketWatch (press release)
GENIVI aims to provide a reusable, open source IVI platform that will deliver benefits including shorter development cycles and quicker time-to-market while ...

Mitre 10 taps open source for fast BI win
CIO Australia
"Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company t ..." "Many South by Southwest attendees reportedly walked ...

Webscale Databases: Is Open Source Really Necessary?
GigaOm (blog)
Might the resources spent developing open-source projects or building tools from scratch not become extraneous if companies could buy solutions that would ..

China Google Users Appeal for Clarity
Wall Street Journal (blog)
He said the other contributors want to remain anonymous to keep the open-source spirit of the letter, which asks that Google and the government explain to ...

NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg bring open symbology to data feeds
Automated Trader
"An open source, truly integrated solution for market data distribution is long overdue. NYSE Euronext is pleased to join with Bloomberg in delivering this ...

March 22 SOA News

2010-03-22T19:27:00.000+05:30

Twist 2.0 Aligns IT, Business Stakeholders for Agile, SOA
Integration Developers
"Implementing agile is not just SOA or services architectures, it is also about increasing the level of collaboration and visibility among stakeholders," ...

IBM Announces 'Develothon 2010', Organizes 27-City Road Show
IT News Online
... business performance management (BPM), business intelligence (BI), social networking collaboration, mashups and service oriented architecture (SOA). ...

25 Most confusing tech buzzwords
Times of India
The most confusing acronym for the decade was SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). "SXSW has long been a harbinger for future directions in popular culture ...

IBM Looks Back on 2000s, Sets Sites on Next Decade
IT Jungle
Big investments were made in service oriented architecture (SOA) software development, business intelligence and analytics, and the company built up lots of ...

generationE to Embed InetSoft's Dashboard Reporting Software in IT Operations ...
PR Web (press release)
That, combined with its SOA architecture and open standards-based technology, makes for an ideal embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards ..

March 21 Open Source News

2010-03-21T19:34:00.001+05:30

Microsoft claims that its controversial relationship with Open Source changing
Uptrend SEO Company (blog)
Microsoft appears to be prepared to support third-party USB storage for saving and loading game data, according to a report. Desktop Virtualization: It's ...

Headlines: Ten Weekly: Programming the new literacy, Mario becomes Open-Source
Associated News Today (blog)
As Apple builds its electronic bookstore, Amazon is trying to use its clout to hold on to its early lead in the market. Why did Apple ban iPhone, iPod, ...

Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Now the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)
MySQL on Friday revealed that Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of the company, who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for ...

Yves Behar and his open-source people's car
Wired (blog)
(((Obviously needs an open-source garage, so I hope the guys at Open Structures are getting busy with the joints, fiberboard and bamboo.)))

Why Standards and Open Source Will Save You Money
Information Management
For all kinds of reasons, go open source. In the first place, you have that wonderful transparency of code. As just about every open source pro will tell ...

The Open Planning Project Hires Dan Kohn As Executive Director
Earthtimes (press release)
Former COO of Linux Foundation brings open source and business development expertise. The Open Planning Project (TOPP) has hired Dan Kohn as its Executive ...

Is Microsoft thinking of copying the iPhone in 2007 is a good idea?
Uptrend SEO Company (blog)
Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid to take ...

Google Aims at the TV market – Will they Succeed? Yes, and Here's why
Atlantic Free Press
Probably the most exciting news for me is the fact that the New TV platform will be based on Android, and will remain Open Source. ...

March 20 Open Source News

2010-03-20T22:41:00.001+05:30

Ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos lands new CEO job
BusinessWeek
By James Niccolai Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, ...

Google's Open-Source TV: Coming soon to a set near you
NetworkWorld.com
If it goes the open-source route it's said to be headed in, Hi-Def reports, "That means that anyone who wants to put Google TV into their set-top box, ...

Wikipedia To Support Theora Open Source Video Codec
HTML Goodies
Theora is an open source video codec which is to be incorporated into the HTML5 specification via a video tag. The Open Video Alliance is behind the ...

Comcast Uses Open Source for IPv6 Deployment
InternetNews.com
That's where the new open source Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) software comes into play. AFTR is an open source effort led by Comcast and the ...

Purses open source of income for recession victim
Manteca Bulletin
By Jason Campbell As a victim of the Great Recession, Jessica Foster quickly came up with the idea to find something that people were still going to buy in ...

Open-source innovation: A matter of price?
CNET
This same phenomenon is driving open source into consumer electronics, enterprise computing, and everywhere else: it's often a much simpler solution (one ...

GoAhead Software Shifts To Open Source, Buys Firm
Northwest innovation
Bellevue-based GoAhead Software, a developer of embedded middleware software, said today that it is shifting to an open source software model. ...

Linux and Open Source
ZDNet (blog)
Open source has made its third big move on Wall Street with Bloomberg's decision to open source its proprietary stock identifiers alongside NYSE-Euronext ...

The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source
LinuxPlanet
Over the last couple of years a number of different open source business strategies have evolved. According to the 451 Group, it's an evolution that ..

March 20 SOA News

2010-03-20T22:40:00.001+05:30

The World's Leading Resource on SOA / Web Services
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Reuven Cohen rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to ...

SOA Roundup: Cloudwatching, Cloudwashing, Cloudonomics, Gap-minding
ebizQ (blog)
Almost all of the SOA vendors, he says, "have 'cloud washed' their products and messaging to use 'Cloud.' Kelly Emo, at the front lines of service ...

Tail Wags the Dog: the Entire Business is Becoming 'Service Oriented'
ebizQ (blog)
But nevertheless, SOA-style thinking is reshaping management -- the tail is wagging the dog -- and there's more of an emphasis on breaking processes and ...

March 19 Open Source News

2010-03-19T20:04:00.001+05:30

IT Management: Mindtouch Names 20 Most Powerful Open Source Voices of 2010 at OSBC
eWeek
The sixth annual Open Source Business Conference opened March 17 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and will present two full days of seminars, ...

Why Open Source and Operations Matter in Cloud Computing
Linux.com (blog)
IBM is using KVM, built into every Linux kernel, to power their offerings and partnering with Red Hat, a company based entirely on open source and known for ...

'Powerful voices' in open source software named
Inquirer
By Spencer Dalziel LINUX CREATOR Linus Torvalds was named second in a list of the fifty most powerful movers and shakers in open source yesterday. ...

Google TV – Open Source Software – Set-Tops Are in the Works
High-Def Digest
Google is said to be making this a true open-source project. That means that anyone who wants to put Google TV into their set-top box, television, ...

Comcast Labs and ISC Release Open Source Software to Facilitate IPv6 Transition
MarketWatch (press release)
K) and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced today the release of open source software that will help facilitate the industry's transition to IPv6, ...

Will Open Source Video Finally Kill Adobe Flash? Steve Jobs May Be Sorry What ...
NetworkWorld.com
The eventual winner of the HTML5 video standards debate could be an open source standard. This will leave Jobs and his black box, closed system henchman in ...

Open Source in the Cloud
CTO Edge (blog)
So to avoid that issue, the best approach is to use as much open source software as possible. That's the thinking that drives much of the technology ...

GoAhead Software Moves to Open Source Business Model
PR Web (press release)
Simultaneous with the move to open source, GoAhead is announcing the acquisition of Avantellis from Emerson Network Power. These two significant moves ...

Better Portland government through open source apps?
kgw.com
Adams announced the launch of CivicApps, an open source design contest to "showcase regional open data and promote collaboration between citizens and ..

March 19 SOA News

2010-03-19T20:02:00.001+05:30

Putting SOA to Work with MDM and BPM
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: by Loraine Lawson, IT Business Edge Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner at ZapThink, says you'll still hear about SOA this year, but the focus ...

SOA and SaaS are complementary
CIOL
And lastly, the benefits in a complete architecture (SaaS+ enterprise application+ SOA) are that all the application are SaaS-based, on the enterprises ...

Product Note: Aras Innovator
Technology Evaluation Centers
Aras Innovator is an enterprise-wide PLM solution using a model-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework on the Microsoft platform. ...

Delivering operational excellence with innovation: Enterprise services ...
Plant Services
The adoption of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is central to becoming more responsive and agile. An SOA not only helps organizations address ...

Future of cloud lies with interoperability between clouds
FederalNewsRadio.com
... and a lot of people are asking — how will a cloud play in the next few years with respect to SOA and other enterprise integration efforts? ..

March 18 SOA News

2010-03-18T19:13:00.001+05:30

Aptify RAD- a "Bridge to Silverlight 4.0"
PR Web (press release)
With Aptify RAD, you define your application requirements in meta-data, and Aptify RAD builds the database, business objects, SOA layer and user experience ...

Dealing with REST Services Security
InfoQ.com
With security being one of the main tenets of SOA implementation and REST quickly becoming one of the prevalent SOA implementation approaches, ...

Digital Reef Appoints David Butler as New Vice President of Marketing
PR-USA.net (press release)
Additionally, David was the Worldwide SOA Director and Chief Evangelist for HP's Technology Solutions Group's SOA Marketing. Prior to HP, David was the VP ...

BTM Corporation to Participate in IBM Impact 2010
MarketWatch (press release)
BTM's management solutions and expertise focused on business technology convergence, combined with their understanding of how Smart SOA and BPM Technology ..

March 18 Open Source News

2010-03-18T19:11:00.001+05:30

The clouding of open source and virtualization
CNET
by Dave Rosenberg If there is one underlying theme of this year's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco, it's that the cloud, ...

Should Microsoft make IE open source?
Computerworld (blog)
But maybe it's time for Microsoft to try something far more radical: Make Internet Explorer open source. Making IE open source could help quickly build a ...

Hosted Drupal CMS Planned for Midyear
PC World
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service Acquia hopes to make a hosted version of its Drupal open-source content management system widely available in about ...

Linus Torvalds named most influential open source blogger
NetworkWorld.com
By Jon Brodkin, Network World O'Reilly media founder Tim O'Reilly is "the most powerful voice" in open source, followed by Linux chief architect Linus ...

Smart phones get their smarts from open source
NetworkWorld.com
My blogomaniac buddy Alan Shimel recently posted a piece arguing that Android, the open source darling of the mobile world, looks pretty small against the ...

Green Startup Introduces Open Source Concept to Energy Monitoring
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Home Energy monitoring products maker People Power has come out with an open source hardware and software application developer kit called SuRF that lets ...

Open-Xchange, 4PSA Team on Open-Source UC
VON
Open-source e-mail and collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange has done a little collaborating itself to offer an enhanced unified communications product ...

Seeding the Cloud with Open Source, Standing Cloud Makes It Easy
NetworkWorld.com
Open source apps have been grabbing more than their fair share of the cloud space and for good reason. The cloud and open source are perfect together. ...

Google's Open Source Project-Hosting Milestone
InternetNews.com
Five years ago, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched Google Code, a seemingly modest project designed to be an online resource for open source projects. ..

March 17 Open Source News

2010-03-17T20:55:00.000+05:30

Open Source ECM Vendor Nuxeo Gains Record Number of New Customers and Partners
MarketWatch (press release)
In 2009, Nuxeo more than doubled its revenue, launched several new products and features developed in conjunction with the open source community and won ...

Commtouch to Present the Next Level for Open-Source Email Security at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar 16, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Open-source security infrastructure can be taken to the next step by augmenting it with commercial ...

Open Source Developers Pick Android Over iPhone
InternetNews.com
More open source projects are moving to Android despite the iPhone's early lead, according to a new study. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this ...

What's Bilski got to do with open source?
NetworkWorld.com
Williamson also explains why a business process patent case could have significant implications for software patents and open source software developers. ..

Linux and Open Source
ZDNet (blog)
The continuing conflict between Google and China, which may be a proxy for deeper conflicts over economics and values, could easily impact open source. ...

Pentagon probes alleged ad hoc spy ring
CNN International
The contract was meant to be limited to gathering what is known as "open-source information," in which material is gathered in an unclassified manner from, ...

The need for an Open Source license
Manila Bulletin
Software projects commissioned by the government, with risk to national security, must be licensed under a particular open source license. ...

Objectivity, Inc. Delivers New Eclipse CDO Data Store for Open Source ...
PR Web (press release)
Companies looking to benefit from open source movement can now develop complex applications and models utilizing big data, with significantly less effort. ...

Open source SSO lands in spotlight
NetworkWorld.com
Last week was a really big week -- perhaps the biggest ever -- for open source simplified sign-Ope on in general and OpenID in particular. ...

Facebook, Red Hat and Tim O'Reilly to Keynote at Computerworld's Open Source ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
OSBC is the open source industry forum for senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers and venture capitalists to collaborate on ..

March 17 SOA News

2010-03-17T20:53:00.001+05:30

How one bank set realistic expectations for SOA
ZDNet (blog)
This is the vaunted second phase of SOA, in which results move from more localized benefits, particularly developer productivity stemming from spending less ...

Boomi AtomSphere Spring '10 Extends Enterprise SOA to the Cloud With ...
Marketwire (press release)
Enterprises can now confidently extend their SOA to the cloud to integrate any combination of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications in a real-time, ...

A Look at the Apache Tuscany Project
SearchSOA
She has led development organizations that delivered SOA-based integration platforms and solutions in open source, in Fortune 500 and start-ups. ...

Need for Revving up Business Agility Drives Service-Oriented Architecture ...
IT News Online
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India : The service-oriented architecture (SOA) market in India is at a nascent stage, and the market remains largely untapped by major ...

News from TheServerSide Java Symposium
SearchSOA
This year's symposium is focused on frameworks, SOA and architecture, language, tools and technologies, and cloud computing. Get up to the minute news and ...

March 16 SOA News

2010-03-16T19:36:00.000+05:30

"Connectivity 2.0" To Fuel More Intelligent, Scalable SOA
Integration Developers
The next wave of infrastructure dubbed "Connectivity 2.0" is helping enterprises transform departmental ESBs, SOA and Cloud projects into an integrated ...

Why Intermediaries Matter in SOA
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Are SOA anti-principles more important than success principles? Last week Joe McKendrick >asked the question. The idea of anti-principles came from Steve ...

One Bank's SOA: Much More Than a 'Fire-and-Forget' Business Case
ebizQ (blog)
By Joe McKendrick on March 14, 2010 9:55 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes SOA offers a range of benefits, from costs savings to business agility. ...

SOA: the smaller the company, the greater the edge?
ZDNet (blog)
Experienced in SOA-based projects in both medium-size companies and startups, he weighs the differences. (Some of the issues in medium-size organizations ...

The modern XML appliance: from acceleration to integration and into the cloud
SearchSOA
After a decade of acquisitions and increases in SOA messaging complexity, the accelerator has given rise to a broader-purposed set of XML appliances in ...

'Legacy' Integration Blossoms During Recession, Seagull Says
IT Jungle
While LegaSuite Integration is gaining steam ("SOA has become mainstream, no ifs about it," Elias says), LegaSuite GUI still accounts for the bulk of ...

The Need for Cloud Computing Brokers
IT Business Edge (blog)
According to Brian Ott, Unisys vice president of global service, the broker service will manage all the APIs and service-oriented architecture (SOA) ..

March 16 Open Source News

2010-03-16T19:34:00.001+05:30

OpenLogic pushes open-source scan service for M&As
BusinessWeek
By Chris Kanaracus OpenLogic, which provides support and auditing services for open-source software, announced a new offering on Monday aimed at customers ...

'Fastest broadband in EU' in election promise; Open source debated
ZDNet (blog)
The run up to the UK general election is spattered with political hot potatoes, debates and changes afoot, with a bust economy and a range of issues which ...

SXSW: Bug Labs Says Content Will Drive Open-Source Hardware
Wired News
That's the viewpoint of Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs, whose modular, open-source hardware company aims to fix that shortcoming by making it ...

Open source: Less profit, more fun
InfoWorld
It's a bad time to be an open source startup trying to survive on support revenue. But it's a great time for open innovation. Open source ain't what it used ...

Build your own smart grid device with new open source development kit
ZDNet (blog)
SuRF, which is priced at $149.95, comes with two boards and it builds on the Open Source Home Area Network (OSHAN) communications protocol; ...

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to Open 2010 Open Source Business Conference with
MarketWatch (press release)
OSBC brings together open source vendors, customers, partners and community members to share strategies and hear the most current thinking on open source ...

Supercomputers run open source software
Inquirer
By David Neal ACCORDING TO Novell nine out of ten of the most powerful supercomputers in the world run open source software. The numbers come from the Top ...

Ex-Sun open source honcho: Sorry about that TCK license, Apache!
Java World
Among the many high-level Sun people leaving the merged Oracle-Sun conglomerate is Chief Open Source Officer Simon Pipps, who announced his departure on his ...

XML Co-Founder Joins Google As Developer Advocate
ITProPortal
Bray believes that he and Google have a lot in common, with 'Web-centric', 'Search' and 'Open Source' being some key similarities. ...

EnterpriseDB CEO Selected to Speak at Open Source Business Conference 2010
PR Newswire (press release)
During his session, Boyajian will discuss the open source revolution currently underway in the $19 billion database industry and the resulting pressures ..

March 15 SOA News

2010-03-15T19:19:00.001+05:30

Amazon and the Kindle: A case of corporate contradictions
InfoWorld
Services companies face this when they go to market in more than one way -- their (for example) SOA and health care sales teams can and do bump into each ...

Your Roadmap To The Clouds – III
SYS-CON Media (press release)
In the cloud space, Salesforce.com provides a visual process manager for integrating with the Force.com SOA development platform. ...

Finding common ground
ITWeb
The third component, SOA, is a compelling one. The starting point for SOA is to understand and internalise the principle of re-use. ...

SOA & Cloud Computing Networking Event Hosted by Red Eagle Services in San Antonio
PR-USA.net (press release)
Open to public enrollment and attendance, the RESCouncil events provide a way to encourage dialogue, networking, and communication within the SOA, EA, ...

Discovery Holdings Selects Tibco's Software for South Africa
Trading Markets (press release)
"Through a robust, differentiated Tibco BPM/SOA environment, Discovery can ensure its services remain customer-centric and its business is competitively ...

Enterprise Architect to Offer Service-Oriented Modeling Framework(TM) (SOMF(TM ...
PR Newswire (press release)
We see SOMF therefore as complementing and bringing together downstream SOA-enabling technologies already supported in Enterprise Architect, including XML ..

March 15 Open Source News

2010-03-15T19:18:00.001+05:30

Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs
Ars Technica
OpenOffice.org Calc, the open source spreadsheet application, also has a built-in Space Invaders clone. You can launch it by typing =Game("StarWars") in the ...

Mozilla redrafts open source licence
ITWeb
By James Lawson, ITWeb journalist Mozilla unveiled plans to redraft the open source licence underpinning projects such as Firefox, says PC Pro. ...

Novell to bring open source Silverlight clone to iPhone
Downloadsquad (blog)
... and now it seems like the iPhone might also run Silverlight apps... but with Moonlight, Novell's open source, cross-platform Silverlight implementation. ...

OpenLogic Announces Open Source Audit Service for Merger and Acquisition (M&A)
Earthtimes (press release)
BROOMFIELD, CO -- 03/15/10 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software support and solutions encompassing hundreds of open source ...

Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
CNET
Specifically, he likes Android's developer-friendliness, its full suite of interfaces, its open-source nature, its strong Google backing, ...

Ubuntu Koala food console gets its cron on
Register
Scalr - the open source admin console for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and its Eucalyptus doppelganger - has added a cron job task manager to its arsenal, ...

Non-Profit Open Wonderland Launches
Virtual Worlds News
With the news last month that Oracle would be shutting down development resources for Project Wonderland, the open-source virtual world platform originally ...

Standardization: The Key to Mobile UI Succe ...
PC Magazine
First, especially in the case of open source operating systems like Android, it's difficult for a software vendor to write apps and deploy them across ...

Red Hat announces EMEA partner summit details
Channel EMEA
by Stuart Wilson, Monday 15 March 2010 Open source solutions outfit Red Hat will host its third annual EMEA partner summit in Valencia, Spain from May 2nd ..

March 14 Open Source News

2010-03-14T17:11:00.001+05:30

Mario Goes Open-Source with Arduino
PC Magazine
by David Murphy The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. ...

Open Source ERP Software Provider xTuple Announces Winner of its "haxTuple ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
For our part, xTuple is redoubling its commitment to working with the community to maintain and continue to improve the world's most advanced open source ...

An open answer to Office
The Hindu
The decade-old OpenOffice was the Free and Open Source riposte to Microsoft's Office that has entrenched itself in the office productivity suite segment. ...

Think local, go 'open'
The Hindu
Open source technologies are making significant inroads in governments around the world, avers Gopi Ganapathy, President & CEO, Essentia, ...

The Coffee Party Uses Drupal
Katonda (blog)
For those who don't know what Drupal is, "Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU ...

Virtual reality pioneer turns against Web 2.0 culture
Toronto Star
Lanier, a former proponent of the open-source model of freely sharing intellectual property, has reversed course as the author of a contentious new book, ...

Microsoft's Windows and Google's Linux (Android), the Mobile Race
Softpedia
It's also extremely easy to credit the underlying Linux OS and open source model for the success of Android. "42.7 million people in the US owned ...

Digg Rolls Out NoSQL Solution to Replace MySQL
Softpedia
Cassandra was chosen from other open-source NoSQL solutions, including CouchDB and MongoDB. John Quinn, VP of Engineering at Digg, said on the company's ...

SCALE 8x: Color management for everyone
LXer (press release)
On Sunday at SCALE 8x, Inkscape developer Jon Cruz presented a talk entitled "Why Color Management matters to Open Source and to You," putting the need for ..

March 13 SOA News

2010-03-13T21:32:00.001+05:30

Something to ponder: SOA supports military space program
ZDNet (blog)
Many have questioned the ability of SOA-based systems to deliver business value. Can we rely on SOA-based systems to defend the universe? ...

How Cloud Computing is Changing SOA
ebizQ (blog)
The larger issue here is that the focus on cloud computing as architectural options within an SOA is indeed changing SOA, and the technology we employ. ...

The Great Recession, and why IT can't save the world
ZDNet (blog)
The thing that we've found [is that] the new SOA approach actually helps with a gradual transformation. The approach we have taken with legacy programs is ...

Boardroom commitment vital to put IT at the heart of recovery
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
But the emergence of new techniques, and in particular service-oriented architecture (SOA), offers a way to smooth that migration from legacy to a flexible, ...

Might As Well Face It You're Addicted to Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Her most recent area of focus included SOA-related products and architectures. She holds a BS in Information and Computing Science from the University of ...

Infor Flex Smooths App Upgrades
InformationWeek
To facilitate integration, Infor has also introduced Infor Open SOA, an architecture designed to enable companies to distribute data among Infor ..

March 13 Open Source News

2010-03-13T21:26:00.001+05:30

Open source community 'hopelessly confused' by Apple-HTC suit
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes Analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company said Friday he believes the open source community, which has backed Google's Android mobile ...

Microsoft to Deliver Open Source Analytics Software for Silverlight
OStatic (blog)
In a blog post, Microsoft officials describe the open source offering as a "new extensible framework for integrating web analytics into Silverlight ...

'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names
CNET
So perhaps it's not surprising that two of the biggest trends in computing--open-source software and cloud computing--have been accompanied by some of the ...

Play yourself at Rock, Paper, Scissors with an open source training glove
Downloadsquad (blog)
For me, though, the most interesting bit was the 'open source hardware' used to process the glove's inputs and power the outputs. ...

Open Source ERP Software Provider xTuple Announces Winner of its "haxTuple ...
TMCnet
--(Business Wire)-- Core News Facts: xTuple, the leader in Mac and open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has announced the winner of its ...

Open Source eCommerce That Let's Your Customers Shop With The Best
NetworkWorld.com
Now using open source eCommerce software from Magento, you can create an online shopping experience that will rival Amazon and some of the biggest merchants ...

CRM Week in Review: Open Source CRM Reports Big News, Cloud Telephony
TMCnet
And on Thursday, open source CRM provider, SugarCRM, seems to be evolving into a mainstream go-to platform for any and all business CRM needs. ...

OSI Board Addition May Bring Needed Change
ITworld.com
When Simon Phipps says people have been critical of the Open Source Initiative, I'm pretty sure I'm one of the critics to which he's referring. ...

Linux summit dissects MeeGo
eWeek
This year's event features a full-day workgroup on MeeGo, as well as Linux sessions ranging from cloud computing to desktop distros to open source ..

March 12 Open Source News

2010-03-12T20:37:00.001+05:30

Open Source liveblogging at SXSWi
NetworkWorld.com
I'll be at several panels focusing on Open Source while at SXSW's Interactive Festival, starting with Selling Your Milk When the Cow Is Free, on Friday, ...

Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Oracle
CMSWire
What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle's plans for Sun's open source properties? In addition to these accomplishments, he also appears proud ...

Microsoft readies open-source analytics framework for Silverlight
ZDNet (blog)
Microsoft plans to release for download via its Codeplex site a free, open-source analytics framework for Silverlight the week of March 15. ...

Open Source CRM in Action in Houston, Tampa
TMCnet
Maybe that's part of the reason why last month TMC (News - Alert) reported that Everything Channel's CRN Magazine called open source CRM provider SugarCRM ...

Psion Aims to Bring Open Source to Rugged Mobile Computing
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
By Editorial Staff London — March 11, 2010 — Mobile computing specialist Psion has debuted what it is calling "Open Source Mobility" (OSM), an evolution of ...

Tories pat small biz heads in open source IT procurement pledge
Register
Echoing the current Labour government's "commitment" to open source and open standards, the Tories sang from the same hymn book by declaring they would ...

Open source search startup Lucid Imagination raises $10M
San Jose Business Journal
Lucid Imagination CEO Eric Gries has raised another $10 million for the San Mateo-based open source search startup. Open source search company Lucid ...

Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
OStatic (blog)
11, 2010Comments (0) Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. ...

Why Google Android is winning
CNET
That is astonishing growth and has much to do with Google's open-source approach. As ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn remarks, "Just as the Internet takes friction ...

Why Digg Digs Cassandra
BusinessWeek
Facebook has since backed off Cassandra, but Digg plans to open source all its work on Cassandra and champion the software's development and adoption. ..

March 12 SOA News

2010-03-12T20:35:00.001+05:30

Connecting the enterprise to the cloud marketplace
SYS-CON Media (press release)
This pattern is also referred to as the 'distributed SOA', the idea that an enterprise's SOA spans across multiple service zones both on and off-premise. ...

The World's Leading Resource on SOA / Web Services
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara DavidRon wrote: You give Apple too much credit. Handmark had an app store for Palm devices nearly a decade before Apple, and years before ...

Appian Exec Sees Opportunity in "Fragmenting" BPM Market
Integration Developers
The recent wave of BPM acquisitions is setting the stage for a new dynamic for how to discuss and define BPM / SOA projects. ...

Beta Systems' New Agility Products Connect Data Centers with Decentralized ...
MarketWatch (press release)
To underpin companies' SOA structures, Beta Systems' z/OS-based solutions process data and documents in the usual secure and scalable world of mainframe ...

Government Cloud Is Where the Action Is: Talking With Tarak Modi
ebizQ (blog)
In this podcast we talk about cloud computing, SOA, and the government, which, with the Open Government Directive, is a very exciting space right now and ..

March 11 SOA News

2010-03-11T20:25:00.001+05:30

SOA grows up -- and out
InfoWorld
But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications. ...

Is 'Service-Oriented Approach' a Better Way to Define SOA?
ebizQ (blog)
Such appears to be the case with SOA. A few months back, JP Morgenthal, a friend of all of us here at ebizQ and a tireless proponent of SOA done right, ...

Revisiting Biases Against Open Source SOA Solutions
InfoQ.com
Ronald Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink revisits the common misconception/biases on the suitability of open source SOA solutions for the enterprise ...

Emerging Industry SOA Best Practices
InfoQ.com
Determine if SOA is the Best Approach. According to the white paper: While SOA can provide the benefits of reuse, agility, and loose coupling, ...

Why Web Services Failed at SOA (and Why REST May Fail Too!)
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By William Martinez Pomares First, let's review what is the concept behind services, with particular mention of the web services themselves. ...

Discovery harnesses BPM, SOA
ITWeb
During the second phase of implementation this year, Discovery will investigate the standardisation of existing operational systems on a SOA platform, ...

AuraPortal Participates In Hugely Successful Gartner BPMS Summit
PowerHomeBiz.com (press release)
All of this is achieved by applying a SOA strategy, system maintenance and the creation of complex reports. One of the most interesting presentations at the ...

ObjectSecurity and Promia produce next-generation security technology for US ...
Cambridge Network
ObjectSecurity and Promia have been tasked a project milestone by the US Navy to design a vision blueprint for US Navy's SOA & Cloud information assurance, ...

Getting Cloudy
Voice & Data Online
In the recent past, network management services were based on service oriented architecture (SOA) that effectively integrated traditional disparate network ...

Harris, Sunhillo to develop information exchange networks for aviation markets
Trading Markets (press release)
Harris brings its expertise in the development and application of SOA networks, such as the all-digital FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure network. ...

March 11 Open Source News

2010-03-11T20:24:00.001+05:30

Selecting an Open Source Operating System
Computerworld
By Francisco Reyes Network World - There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right ...

Mozilla to overhaul its open-source license
CNET
by Stephen Shankland Ten years on, Mozilla has concluded that its open-source underpinnings are due for a refresh. The Firefox browser and Thunderbird ...

iPhone app contract shows Apple is the enemy of open source
Computerworld (blog)
Many open source fans consider Apple a friend. But revelations about Apple's previously secret agreement with iPhone developers show that when it comes to ...

Windows 7/Vista/XP / Open Source / 68 downloads
BetaNews
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused ...

What Apple's and Microsoft's patent threats mean for start-ups
CNET
But it may fall particularly hard on open-source projects and companies, which typically eschew patents. When Apple came calling to threaten Sun with a ...

open source router targets developers
ITWeb
Duxbury Networking has released a new high performance open source router targeted at Linux/Unix and other open source platform application developers. ...

Magento: PayPal Symbiotic Relationship Boosts e-Commerce
TMCnet
By Mini Swamy Magento, the global open source e-commerce platform, and PayPal (News - Alert) announced that they are expanding their relationship to offer ...

CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows
Ars Technica
Former Microsoft open source evangelist Sam Ramji, currently VP of strategy at Sonoa, will be remaining on the board, along with Microsoft . ...

Lucid Imagination lands $10M more for enterprise search solutions
VentureBeat
Lucid Imagination, a company that provides support, training and consulting for open source search technologies Lucene and Solr, today announced it has ..

March 10 Open Source News

2010-03-10T20:12:00.001+05:30

Sun's Open Source Chief Quits
InformationWeek
By Paul McDougall Sun Microsystems chief open source officer has stepped down from the company in the wake of its acquisition by Oracle. ...

At Open Source and the Cloud, IT opportunities and challenges
CNET
by Dave Rosenberg Just as open source has made it easier for developers to distribute software, the cloud has ushered in a new wave of consumption, ...

The Open-Source Buzz
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
However, today I will focus on a lesser-known but growing buzzword: open-source software. Before I explain what exactly qualifies software as open-source, ...

Is ad blocking the problem?
CNET
Lest online media feel particularly aggrieved by the pilfering of ad-blocking software, perhaps it would be comforting to know that we in the open-source ...

Microsoft-Sponsored CodePlex Moves Ahead
InternetNews.com
The non-profit open source foundation looks to show it's not just an extension of its main backer, Microsoft. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this ...

New Project Puts Open Source Spin on Data Center Design
TechNewsWorld
By Katherine Noyes A new initiative seeks to give future data centers an open source twist by developing an open and free engineering framework for data ...

reMail rereleased as open source
TECH.BLORGE.com
We decided that the best option was to open source the code, which is now available on Google Code as remail-iphone under the Apache 2.0 License. ...

Open Source is Opening Data to Predictive Analytics
Smart Data Collective (blog)
by David M Smith on 03/09/2010 10:16 0 comments , 233 views The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open-source language for ...

Open source makes psychological sense
Inquirer (blog)
This comes from behavioural researchers, and in our eyes gives scientific proof that enlightened altruism, such as is found is open source projects, ...

Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate
Register
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, ..

March 10 SOA News

2010-03-10T20:10:00.001+05:30

Rocket Software's LegaSuite Integration 5.2 Now Available
MarketWatch (press release)
... the availability of LegaSuite Integration 5.2, an application integration tool to help organizations SOA-enable their existing applications and data. ...

SOA Pattern (#10): Service Refactoring
informIT
The SOA Pattern of the Week series is comprised of original content and insights provided to you courtesy of the authors and contributors of the ...

SOA Software CTO to Explain Why Cloud Requires SOA at IDC Conference Keynote
Earthtimes (press release)
Cloud computing and SOA are both highly relevant to today's enterprise, and are also highly synergetic. This presentation uses a set of real-world examples ...

Software AG and Logica Create Opportunity in New Global Gas Market for one of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Furthermore, Logica has built a SOA-based solution that can be leveraged to support additional integration and composite application development and that ...

Harris Corporation and Sunhillo Corporation Team to Develop Advanced ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The Harris and Sunhillo team is leveraging flexible, service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology to create a secure, network-centric information exchange ..

March 9 SOA News

2010-03-09T19:30:00.001+05:30

Discovery Holdings Increases Business Agility and Operational Excellence With ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
As part of the second phase of the implementation this year, Discovery will investigate the standardization of existing operational systems on a SOA ..

TechTarget Acquires ebizQ.net
MarketWatch (press release)
SOA and BPM vendors competing in these markets will for the first time have access to both the IT and the LOB decision makers and influencers from a single ...

SOA Needs to Support Industrial-Strength Processing
ebizQ (blog)
By Joe McKendrick on March 8, 2010 5:07 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes Have service-oriented applications added to the complexity of heavy-duty manufacturing, ...

Infor to Target BPCS Shops with 'Flex' Upgrade Program
IT Jungle
The new ERP systems are able to accommodate this level of flexibility, presumably, because they are service oriented architecture (SOA) enabled. ...

SOA to Reap Better Profits
itVARnews.net (press release)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment is a reality in many industry verticals today. The CIOs, CTOs, and IT managers are convinced about the ...

Principles of Service Design
CIO
Even integration efforts rely on these same principles, but they've largely been lost in the hype around SOA and Cloud. Some of this was originally ...

March 9 Open Source News

2010-03-09T19:28:00.001+05:30

Magento and PayPal Expand Relationship to Drive e-Commerce Innovation
MarketWatch (press release)
Its open source product gives merchants complete flexibility and control over the user experience, content and functionality of their online channels. ...

Latitude to Demonstrate LatitudeLearning.com, its Open-Source LMS at Learning ...
PR Web (press release)
State of the Art On-Demand, Open-Source LMS Introduces Training Companies to 21st Century Technology. Saline, MI (PRWEB) March 9, 2010 -- Latitude Learning, ...

Open source webdesktopmobile kit refreshes for iPhone, Android
Register
Appcelerator has taken the beta tag off its open source Titanium development kit, a means of building native desktop and mobile applications using ...

Weekly Poll: Is There A Place For Open-Source in the Data Center?
ReadWriteWeb (blog)
We know the role open-source is playing in cloud computing. Just look at the role that Hadoop and Eucalyptus are playing in cloud computing. ...

BBC iPlayer's open source flash alternatives shut down
Siliconindia.com
Consequently, such open source plugins can no longer stream iPlayer content. According to the Register, the change came just four days after Flash maker ...

Symtrax BI Tool Now Works with Open Source Spreadsheet
IT Jungle
... business intelligence (BI) tools designed to work with Open Office's Calc, a free and open source alternative to Microsoft Excel's spreadsheet program. ...

Truly Open Data
O'Reilly Radar (blog)
I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, ...

Sun's Open Source chief leaves Oracle
The H
Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle. Reflecting on his nearly ten years at Sun in a ...

EnterpriseDB Addresses the Keys to Open Source Database Use in its ...
PR Newswire (press release)
This webinar will debunk common misconceptions regarding open source databases and will include a discussion about the ongoing trend towards using open ...

Open Source Banking: Innovating despite banks who remain out of touch
Mobile-Financial.com
This is a must read for bankers...Brett King, Author of "Bank 2.0", discusses the shift banks must make in the digital economy to become more like software ..