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 AT&T is reportedly going to offer a Dell Android-based smartphone to U.S customers of its cellphone network next year, according to an unconfirmed piece in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters says the thing will be a version of the Marvell Technology-designed oPhone “prototype” Dell showe...Oct. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 784 |
 MuleSoft, the web middleware concern, has released Tcat Server 6 R1, an enterprise-class web application server based on Apache Tomcat that now includes cloud deployment capabilities enabled in one click by a plug-in for Amazon EC2. Administrators can manage their server instances both...Oct. 9, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
 DataSync, a provider of integrated small business software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, and SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated suite of small...Oct. 6, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,091 |
 Citrix started opening the kimono on XenDesktop 4 Monday claiming it’s the complete answer to desktop virtualization and will revolutionize desktop computing for hundreds of millions of corporate users. Judging from the pilots going into production and 40,000- to 125,000-seat deploymen...Oct. 5, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,300 Replies: 1 |
 Likewise announced today availability of both Likewise Open 5.3 and Likewise Enterprise 5.3 software that supports Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, enabling those systems to be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open allows computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopa...Oct. 5, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 723 |
 In the unlikely event that Novell and IBM harbored any hope that the trustee set over SCO would abandon its litigation, that hope has been dashed. SCO last Thursday sent in its brief opposing Novell’s bid for a rare en banc rehearing of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision overt...Oct. 5, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,365 |
 Craig Conway, the guy who got bounced out of PeopleSoft in the middle of its prolonged and eventually hopeless fight to stop Oracle from taking it over, has been named to AMD’s board. Conway has a talent for rebuilding companies but as president and CEO of PeopleSoft, the PeopleSoft bo...Oct. 2, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), the group of Microsoft foes that has been hounding the company for years with complaints to the European Commission, and Opera, one of its members, are griping that the proposed ballot screen solution to the EC’s charge that Micr...Oct. 2, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 903 |
 Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, has announced the release of Cloudera Desktop, a unified graphical user interface for Hadoop applications. The initial release of Cloudera Desktop includes tools for job and cluster management. Cloudera Desktop makes Hadoop easier to use and man...Oct. 2, 2009 06:01 AM EDT Reads: 899 |
 Kickfire, the data warehouse start-up with its very own parallel-processing SQL chip – and the first low-end data warehouse play ever – has beefed up its MySQL Enterprise-based appliance so it’ll stretch to systems that are 5TB. Back in the spring when it started rolling its widgets ou...Oct. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,576 Replies: 1 |
 Novell has announced The Burton Corporation moved its mission-critical applications from UNIX* to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server from Novell to improve system uptime and reduce overall server-related costs by 80 percent. Burton migrated to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in 2008. Burton's ...Sep. 29, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 820 |
 SYS-CON Events announces that Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will be delivering the opening keynote at the 1st Annual Government Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) on October 6th in Washington DC. Ms Singer was appoint...Sep. 28, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,074 |
 The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which overturned the Utah district court’s summary judgment that Novell owns Unix, has given SCO until October 1 to file a retort to Novell’s motion for an en banc rehearing of the case. Apparently that’s standard operating procedure. The od...Sep. 25, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 803 |
 Red Hat did slightly better than the Wall Street pundits supposed it would in its last quarter, the dreaded summer months of June through August in the midst of an awful year. Boosted by a tax benefit, earnings were up 29% to $27.5 million, or 15 cents a share or 16 cents (non-GAAP), o...Sep. 25, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 685 |
 Linux creator Linus Torvalds said at LinuxCon this week that Linux is “getting bloated” and that “it’s a problem.” “I’d love to say we have a plan,” he lamented. “I mean, sometimes it’s a bit sad and we’re definitely not the streamlined hyper-efficient kernel that I had envisioned 15 y...Sep. 25, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 748 |
 IBM’s paranoid defense of its mainframe monopoly is going to be tested again but this time if it blows the start-up out of the water, or denies it clearance to compete, it’ll be messing with an open source operation, and a European open source start-up to boot. The European Commission,...Sep. 25, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal.
Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in...Sep. 25, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,436 |
 Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2,...Sep. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,172 |
 Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...Sep. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,702 |
 Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartpho...Sep. 21, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,802 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale, the recognized leader for scalable and resilient cloud computing management, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4...Sep. 21, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,748 |
 The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that DeviceVM has become its newest member. DeviceVM is the creator of the award-winning Splashtop(TM) instant-on platform, which is powered by Linux. Splashtop allows use...Sep. 21, 2009 12:01 PM EDT Reads: 886 |
 Inexpensive and easy-to-use, the patent-pending VKernel Capacity Analyzer delivers proactive resource monitoring and predictive capacity analysis capabilities that enhance VMware vCenter (VirtualCenter). Capacity Analyzer is the only virtualization management software that predicts res...Sep. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,216 |
 RightScale and WaveMaker Software have integrated so customers can deploy WaveMaker-beholden web apps on clouds such as EC2 in a click and then manage them through RightScale’s automated cloud management platform. WaveMaker claims to have the only open source PaaS solution for developi...Sep. 18, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Jigsaw, the data-as-a-service (DaaS) pioneer with the user-generated global business directory that means to have D&B watching its back, has released a suite of APIs and a toolkit so developers can deliver company profiles and detailed, up-to-date contact data from inside their web, de...Sep. 18, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 751 |
 Microsoft has started a 501.c6 non-profit open source foundation, a bipolar strategy greeted by suspicion, hoots, catcalls, defamation and virtual mooning by the open source set. It’s called the CodePlex Foundation, which is not to be confused with Codeplex com, Microsoft’s version of ...Sep. 18, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,256 |
 "The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS, but can also support multiple interfaces such as Google's AppEngine and the Sun Cloud open API," says Rich Wol...Sep. 16, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,100 |
 The unique ability of Asankya's RAPIDnet to securely accelerate encrypted traffic of applications over the Internet makes it an ideal solution for government entities. By partnering with Carahsoft, Asankya RAPIDnet will be available for purchase by public sector customers through the C...Sep. 16, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 654 |
 Oracle terday afternoon wheeled out "the world's first" OLTP Database Machine based on so-called FlashFire solid-state disk SSD technology from Sun. It's supposed to be the fastest computer on the planet for both data warehouses and OLTP. It's supposed to break the I/O bottleneck by pr...Sep. 16, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,640 |
 Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...Sep. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,958 |
 Citrix is going to try to bar VMware from getting its hooks deep in the cloud by developing the open source Xen hypervisor, already used by public clouds like Amazon, into a full-blown, cheaper, non-proprietary Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).
It intends to surround the Xen hypervisor with...Sep. 12, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,354 |
 Cordys Process Factory offers easy exchange of situational business apps for customers and partners Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation has launched Cordys Process Factory Marketplace, where anyone can find or publish MashApps or s... Sep. 12, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 987 |
 JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has...Sep. 11, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,099 |
 As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...Sep. 11, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
 DotNetNuke Corp.has announced that Shaun Walker, Co-Founder and Chief Architect, has joined the CodePlex Foundation interim Board of Directors. Publicly announced on September 10, 2009, the CodePlex Foundation was created to enable the exchange of code and understanding among software ...Sep. 11, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 818 |
 Novell has released SecureLogin 7, the latest take on its enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution, said to cut the time required to SSO-enable an organization’s applications from weeks to days. Password proliferation is supposed to cause significant losses in IT and end-user productiv...Sep. 11, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 982 |
 SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has announced that iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, has deployed SpringSource Hyperic HQ, a key part of SpringSource’s full solution set, which covers the entire b...Sep. 9, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, has announced the availability of Sugar Community Edition on Amazon EC2 to provide CRM developers with an easy-to-deploy development environment in the cloud. Sugar Community Edition is avai...Sep. 9, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 908 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, the creator of the eponymous open source private cloud platform, has pushed out its first commercial product, the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EEE), which will let customers implement an on-premise cloud using VMware’s virtualization widgetry, including vSphere, E...Sep. 9, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,680 |
 Abu Dhabi’s state-owned Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), which already owned the lion’s share of Globalfoundaries, its joint venture with AMD, is buying Singapore’s loss-making Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion cash, a move that could eventually challenge Taiwan’s ...Sep. 8, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 634 |
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