As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger and delay things another four months. Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the competitive implication...

Pentaho Corporation is upgrading its commercial open source business intelligence alternative with a completely new report authoring environment along with technical and packaging changes so OEMs and SaaS providers can embed the widgetry into third-party applications. It says the r...

Novell, which contrary to public opinion took a serious hit the other day when a federal appeals court threw its ownership of Unix – and its ability to silence SCO – back to a jury to decide, earned five cents a share or $16.7 million on revenues down 12% to $216.1 million in the July ...

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that nominations will close on September 4 for its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. Voting will begin on September 7 and end October 23, 2009. Winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009. To nominate your...

SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that nominations are now open for its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award program...

The Open Group, the remains of the Open Software Foundation formed way back when to keep Sun from taking over Unix, has formed a Cloud Work Group to “ensure the effective and secure use of cloud computing in enterprise architectures based on open standards.” It says it will use the wor...

The legal claims SCO made against Linux are back. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals today threw out the Utah district court’s August 2007 summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix and UnixWare copyrights to Novell. The appeals court also overturned Novell’s waiver of SCO’s terminatio...

The Linux Foundation has updated its April 2008 study on Linux kernel development, the one called “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?”. The updated study found that since April 2008 there’s been a 10% increase in the number of deve...

The open source Mono Project sponsored by Novell has put out a beta release Moonlight 2, the Linux equivalent of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2, which gives users a platform to view and use Silverlight and Windows Media content on Linux. The beta offers improved functionality compared to Mo...

As predictably as night follows day, Hadoop co-creator Doug Cutting is leaving Yahoo bound for Hadoop commercializer Cloudera, which took in a $6 million second round in June to take Hadoop to the enterprise. According to Cloudera’s blog he starts September 1 and will apparently contin...

Concerns have been raised that Tuesday’s Great Word Injunction could beget a bunch of nasty children. i4i chairman Loudon Owen told Redmond Magazine, which got a more detailed audience with him than most – we got as far as the idea that Microsoft might get a stay, he went into a snit a...

Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effect...

MuleSource is pleased to announce a new SAP transport for Mule ESB, a community contribution from MuleSource partner Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute Co., Ltd (OGIS), a Mule ESB reseller in Japan. The SAP Transport for Mule 2 is now available for download on MuleForge, t...

Openbravo, the web-based open source ERP house, has released of a new commercial integrated business management solution built on top of Ubuntu Server Edition called, logically enough, Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription for Ubuntu. It includes the entire software stack – ERP,...

Danube Technologies, Inc., the leader in project management tools and training for the Scrum methodology, today announced that ScrumWorks(R) Pro 4, the latest release of the only enterprise-capable tool designed exclusively to reinforce the principles of the Scrum framework, is now ava...

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that more than 10,000 individuals have been certified for TOGAF(TM). Developed and endorsed by the members of The Open Group...

Zend Technologies, the PHP commercializer, has put out a major new release of Zend Studio, its IDE for the PHP language. Designed to improve productivity for professional-grade web application development, Studio 7.0 supports the newly released PHP 5.3 language as well as tight integ...

GlobalFoundries (GF), AMD’s old Dresden plant controlled by Abu Dhabi since February and now turned contract manufacturer, is going to make chips for Swiss-based STMicroelectronics (STM), its second customer after AMD. It did not disclose terms, or the quantities of the 40nm low-power ...

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. Those who are developing app...

Kaltura, a 40-man New York outfit that got started in 2006, has launched what it reckons is the first and only self-hosted open source online video platform, a move it thinks will translate into the kind of tailwind experienced by open source firms such as Red Hat, MySQL and Mozilla. I...

Fujitsu Technology Solutions is going to OEM Citrix’ XenDesktop, integrate it with “high-definition” HDX technology, and add it to its virtual workplace solutions to give enterprise customers a rich, personalized virtual desktop experience from any location. The combined solution is su...

Likewise is taking another step in advancing mixed networks with open source software. Its new Likewise-CIFS software, currently in beta, will enable sharing files among Linux, Mac and Windows computers using Server Message Block, the popular networking protocol for file and print ...

Rackspace Hosting Thursday open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. It says it worked with developers in an open community to create the specifications and they can now copy, implement and modify t...

Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow.

Cloudera's mission is to bring the Hadoop/MapReduce platform -- a powerful new way to store and manage vast volumes of data -- to the enterprise. The combination of under-utilized data within corporations and the new generation of data-intensive applications demand a new data analytics...

Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the project previously code named Strobe, enables developers to quickly and easily build more robust, feature-rich media play...

Engine Yard, the Ruby-on-Rails doyen, is supposed to announce its Engine Yard Cloud platform today along with Flex, a cloud service plan for production-level Rails applications. The company says its Engine Yard Cloud leverages hundreds of man-years of experience in deploying, managi...

KANA announced the release of KANA 10, whose killer feature is the ability for call center executives to do self-service customization of call center workflow to meet changing business requirements. KANA is using a customized version of WaveMaker studio that allows call center execs...

The open source crowd got unexpected validation late Friday when Standard & Poor's said it's going to boot the tottering CIT Group off its chi-chi S&P 500-stock index and replace it with Red Hat. With its stock in the hole, its depressed market cap down to $272 million and its flirt...

Rackspace Hosting has sent its Cloud Servers API to public beta, a step on the way to open sourcing the thing and a big difference between Rackspace and rival Amazon. Cloud Servers is the company’s months-old Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) widgetry and the community-developed, stan...

The coding portion of SproutCore 1.0 is nearly complete, so it’s time to start work on some of the non-code parts of the SproutCore project. Today I just push a brand new version of the SproutCore website. The design is very simple, but unifies the wiki, blog, and main site so that...

A consumer-oriented Linux-based Internet operating system for netbooks that anticipates Google’s vaunted Chrome OS is already in private alpha in Paris. It’s called Jolicloud and – stop me if you’ve heard this one before – it’s supposed to “transform netbooks into sophisticated web dev...

Adobe announced the public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments and delive...

Rackspace Hosting has announced the availability of the public beta of its Cloud Servers API. Cloud Servers, part of the company’s portfolio of cloud services, is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides inexpensive compute capacity that can be instantly sized allow...

Aptana, Inc., a provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, today announced the completion of a round of financing led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and includes initial investor Accel Partners. "Aptana recently surpassed 4 million downloa...

BridgeWays, a division of Xandros, has released a series of management packs that enable system administrators to manage business critical applications on Windows, Linux, and Unix from a single console. The new management packs help extend Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 200...

VMware Monday was set to announce two new products well as a major release of its vCenter Lab Manager 4. The new products are vCenter AppSpeed, derived from VMware’s acquisition of Beehive, and Chargeback, developed in-house. According to Raghu Raghuram, general manager of VMware...

Jahia, the Swiss-based open source web content integration ISV backed by the European Parliament, has picked up Virgin America as a paying customer. The budding California-based airline, which is promising to make in-flight cattle cars humane with mood-lit cabins, custom-designed leath...

FatWire Software, a web experience management (WEM) provider, has announced new releases of FatWire Engage 7.5 for personalization and FatWire Analytics 2.5 for web content optimization. In conjunction with the FatWire Content Server web content management platform, FatWire Engage and...

Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed v...