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Following 5 years of research and development, Cfengine AS has released an upgrade of the Open Source, self-repairing software cfengine based on its Promise Theory technology. Cfengine is a self-repairing maintenance engine capable of fixing errors and misalignments in the Data Center ... Jan. 5, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,779 |
JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized org... Jan. 5, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 3,792 |
 It's no secret that open source has turned into a market force, which is giving enterprise software some tough competition. The same can be said for SaaS businesses, which are steadily eating into the market share of the established on-premise players. While it could easily be assumed ...Dec. 30, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,167 |
 Wikis are a great software tool for collaboratively creating and editing content. They seem to be an obvious choice for building a community Web infrastructure. Yet they have serious drawbacks that made JBoss.org choose a Content Management System (CMS) instead of a Wiki to build its n...Dec. 30, 2008 07:00 AM EST Reads: 5,011 Replies: 2 |
PortWise has announced the worldwide availability of PortWise 4.7, a new open authentication platform and transaction gateway focused on web service transactions and extended support for secure cloud computing.
“With PortWise 4.7 we further extend our versatile authentication platform... Dec. 29, 2008 03:30 PM EST Reads: 2,058 |
 "The Internet IS cloud computing," according to a holiday-time broadcast on National Public Radio. The program, called 'Will Cloud Computing Work in the White House' aired December 21 on NPR's All Things Considered and involved NPR's Andrea Seabrook discussing with security and technol...Dec. 29, 2008 12:55 PM EST Reads: 5,842 |
 Sun has put out its promised UltraSparc T2 Reference Design Kit (RDK), meant to accelerate the design, development and testing of T2 processor-based embedded systems designs. T2 has eight cores and eight threads per core, and boasts one of the industry’s highest energy efficiencies per...Dec. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,342 |
Sun Wednesday updated its free desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox, to rev 2.1. The new cut is supposed to significantly improve graphics and network performance, configuration is supposed to be easier, and it supports the latest Intel processors. VirtualBox lets users crea... Dec. 17, 2008 06:30 PM EST Reads: 3,447 |
Sun Microsystems announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its free and open source desktop virtualization software for developers and enterprise users. xVM VirtualBox software lets users create "virtual machines" into which they can install their operating system (OS) of choice. ... Dec. 17, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,342 |
 Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't...Dec. 17, 2008 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,223 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft has started an open source blogging engine dubbed Oxite, targeted initially at developers who want to learn ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft allows that the community could push it out for consumers. The Oxite FAQ asks why we need another blog engine and answers that "At the time of th...Dec. 16, 2008 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,231 |
 Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winner? Wi...Dec. 11, 2008 11:50 AM EST Reads: 4,901 Replies: 2 |
 High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and health care. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable the...Dec. 11, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 9,891 |
 Open Invention Network (OIN), the three-year-old IP league started by IBM to buy up patents to deter Microsoft from asserting its patents against Linux, apparently got bored waiting for Microsoft to make a hostile move. So to fill its idle time and justify its existence, it's concocted...Dec. 11, 2008 09:40 AM EST Reads: 2,340 |
 There's a new release of OpenSolaris out – OpenSolaris 2008.11 – out a whole three weeks before the end of 2008. There was a 2008.05 release, aka Project Indiana, in May but that wasn’t as commercial or production-oriented as this one. Both run only on x86 machines, not Sun's own Sparc...Dec. 11, 2008 09:16 AM EST Reads: 4,566 |
 Red Hat has put money into Jaspersoft. The open source business intelligence (BI) ISV has gotten $12.5 million in financing in a round led by private equity house Adams Street Partners with Red Hat and Jaspersoft’s five existing investors participating. This is Jaspersoft’s fifth trip ...Dec. 10, 2008 02:57 PM EST Reads: 2,158 Replies: 1 |
WaveMaker has announced WaveMaker Cloud Edition. WaveMaker Cloud Edition is an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for cloud computing. WaveMaker Cloud Edition lets anyone build web applications that deploy to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With WaveMaker Clo... Dec. 9, 2008 09:56 AM EST Reads: 1,777 |
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced the results of its 2008 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election, which drew record numbers of candidates and voters. The TAB consists of 10 members of the Linux kernel com... Dec. 9, 2008 09:46 AM EST Reads: 1,963 |
Appcelerator has announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies. Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to ... Dec. 9, 2008 09:06 AM EST Reads: 2,919 |
 The two-year anniversary of the Novell-Microsoft alliance that scandalized the open source community passed quietly enough earlier this month. The pair waited a couple of weeks to mark the occasion and then said that in the second year of their arrangement they added upwards of 200 new...Dec. 5, 2008 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,881 |
 Zoho, the prolific Microsoft wannabe that has already proven it can knock off a web app at the drop of a buzzword, is branching out into middleware. It’s come up with some widgetry – aimed at developers this time, not end users – called CloudSQL that’s supposed to let people interact w...Dec. 5, 2008 10:15 AM EST Reads: 2,104 |
 db4objects has sold its open source object database business, native to Java and .NET, to Versant to focus on Servo, a newfangled user data management service. Price was not disclosed. The company will now be known as Servo Software Inc. Versant traffics in specialized data management ...Dec. 5, 2008 09:54 AM EST Reads: 2,101 |
 To no one's particular surprise, Novell missed its quarter. Wall Street thought it could turn six cents a share on $249.78 million. Instead it lost $16.3 million, five cents a share, on flat year-over-year revenues of $245 million in its fourth fiscal quarter ended October 31. It lost ...Dec. 5, 2008 09:35 AM EST Reads: 1,867 |
 The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), the two-year-old consortium dedicated to interoperability and the adoption of open software, has picked Anthony Gold, who runs Unisys' open source business, to be its president. He replaces SpikeSource exec Dominic Sartorio. The organization has also ...Dec. 5, 2008 09:20 AM EST Reads: 2,018 |
 Oracle threw some data integrity protection code over the wall and it's been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. It reportedly lets the Linux kernel utilize key data protection information for the first time in its life. It's also the first implementation of the T10 Protection Infor...Dec. 5, 2008 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,616 |
 Thanks to a sketchy notice in the Official Journal of the European Union we now know a tad more about why Intel has taken the European Commission to court. Seems Intel is accusing the EC of making it the butt of a "discriminatory and partial" antitrust investigation because the EC won'...Dec. 4, 2008 04:44 PM EST Reads: 1,831 |
 AMD sent out a short sharp message Thursday morning saying that the way things are going it expects revenues from continuing operations this quarter to be ~25% lower than they were last quarter and that was only $1.585 billion. Its calculations do not include process technology license...Dec. 4, 2008 10:55 AM EST Reads: 1,544 |
 IBM is taking another shot at blowing Microsoft off the desktop and this time it’s got the foul economic winds at its back. In the name of cost cutting, IBM is proposing that companies virtualize their desktops and turn them into thin clients using Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise R...Dec. 4, 2008 10:48 AM EST Reads: 2,326 Replies: 1 |
 "Ruby on Rails is always evolving and has over the past five years gone through some fifty-plus public releases," said David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails and member of the Rails Core Team. "Rails developers need the supporting ecosystem to keep up with that evolution. New Relic...Dec. 4, 2008 10:24 AM EST Reads: 2,772 |
 VMware, the struggling virtualization leader, has, as expected, put View 3 on the market to do battle with Citrix' XenApp and XenDesktop widgetry. It's supposed to be a big advance in virtual desktop computing, described by the company as a major step in its vClient Initiative, which w...Dec. 3, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,852 |
Continuent has announced support and enhancements to MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA release, the 5.1 production version of the open source database. MySQL 5.1.30 is recommended for use on production systems by the MySQL build team at Sun Microsystems. Continuent Tungsten provides advanced repl... Dec. 3, 2008 09:12 AM EST Reads: 2,103 |
 The promised beta release of Moonlight 1.0, the Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight widgetry, has finally wended its way out. Moonlight is of course the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight and should give Linux users the same rich, high-definition media ca...Dec. 3, 2008 08:48 AM EST Reads: 2,563 |
CNET has reported a 24 percent increase in unique users year-over-year. The traffic increase comes two months after the launch of the CNET redesign, a complete evolution of the website that spanned everything from its logo, design, and navigation to the delivery of product reviews, tec... Dec. 2, 2008 08:55 AM EST Reads: 1,707 |
 Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures (IV), the great patent vacuum, has a piece of Novafora's deal to buy Transmeta, according to a filing dropped off with the SEC. IV was apparently there at the bargaining table with Novafora, which makes digital video processors. It’s putting $11....Dec. 1, 2008 11:40 AM EST Reads: 1,919 Replies: 1 |
 Besides SUSE and its own brand of Linux, rPath is now supporting the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of its rBuilder and rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. The move broadens the start-up’s options for deploying and managing applications in traditional, virtualized a...Dec. 1, 2008 10:04 AM EST Reads: 1,767 |
 SCO filed a notice of appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver Tuesday. Yes, miracle of miracles it finally got a final judgment out of Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball. That's the hall pass it needs to challenge his devastating summary judgme...Nov. 27, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,131 Replies: 6 |
 Fedora 10 is out and about. Fedora of course is Red Hat's freebie community OS and testbed for coming attractions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new rev is supposed to have substantial virtualization improvements for remotely installing and managing storage provisioning and includes ...Nov. 26, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,053 |
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ... Nov. 26, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,687 |
 The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects. Historically, however, open source has sometimes been considered a "late follower," with commercial products first to hit the market, and then followed by "me-too" op...Nov. 26, 2008 06:45 AM EST Reads: 5,410 |
 Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to direct...Nov. 24, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,771 |
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