Many companies are turning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to use their existing IT assets in new ways. Application functionality is made available as a service, available to all applications that use that particular capability. Business managers know that an SOA is a...

By dint of 12% lower operating expenses, Novell managed to more than double its fiscal second-quarter earnings from $5.9 million or two cents a share this time last year to $15.6 million or five cents a share. Revenues however dropped 9% to $215.6 million. Revenue from its Linux Platfo...

Ingres Corporation has announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a fully pre-assembled bundle that combines Ingres Database with Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is available immediately as a 90-d...

This white paper sheds light on the various architectural components of UniPortal. It is an application portal that provides an SOI-compliant command-line interface (CLI) or web services interface (WS-I), facilitating application-oriented job submission, monitoring and control to multi...

The combination of SOA and enterprise-class commercial open source technology solves difficult business problems by simplifying and expediting IT integration at a lower cost than proprietary alternatives. This combination opens and unifies business processes, reduces errors, and enable...

Red Hat and 17 other companies last week sued the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics (BBL), a government agency, in the Swiss Federal Administration Court seeking to overturn the award of a $36 million three-year contract to Microsoft for workstation widgetry, including ap...

IBM is waving around a study that it commissioned from Freeform Dynamics showing that Linux desktops go down better if the right group of users is targeted for deployment such as those who have moderate and predictable use of e-mail and office tools like transaction workers and general...

Microsoft is going to feed projects from its CodePlex open source project hosting site automatically into Black Duck’s open source KnowledgeBase repository. Black Duck’s software keeps track of the use of open source components in mixed-source development projects. The CodePlex project...

Cisco has finally bowed to the demands of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and resolved that suit for copyright infringement that FSF filed in December over Cisco playing fast and loose with its GPL- and LGPL-protected code. Cisco will pay FSF an unspecified amount for its sins and F...

Talend, the open source company with the data integration software, is moving up-market with a new enterprise-grade Integration Suite MPx that won’t be open sourced. The massively parallelized widgetry will pit Talend against the ultra-secretive ETL house Ab Initio, which is notorious ...

In an effort to support social and economic development, UNESCO and Sun Microsystems** signed a Collaboration Agreement on Monday. At the signing ceremony, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, Abdul Waheed Khan, and Executive Vice President and Chairma...

Jahia has launched Jahia Enterprise Edition v6 - its latest Web Content Integration Software. The offering hosts an array of new enterprise features on a subscription basis. This enterprise ready product delivers scalability, high availability, and performance, together with support fo...

Sun Startup Essentials, the Sun Microsystems program dedicated to providing support, funding assistance, and discounted products to entrepreneurs, has announced it will join forces with Zooppa (http://www.zooppa.com), the social network for advertising creatives, to develop its new mar...

Qt Software has completed its plans to release the Qt source code repositories to the developer community. This news opens the door to software engineers who want to help guide and shape the future development of Qt with code contributions, translations, examples, and other offerings.

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MySQL refuses to go gentle into Oracle’s uncertain arms. Monty Widenius, principal author of the original version of the open source database and a founder of the MySQL company that Sun bought last year for a billion dollars, is proposing to wrest control of the widgetry from Oracle. ...

IBM and Novell have piled on the bankruptcy trustee’s move last week to put SCO into liquidation, a move made the day before the 10th Circuit heard SCO’s appeal asking for the summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell to be overturned. Timing is everything but it’s unclear ...

If you’re tiring of the vanilla look and feel of Google and Zoho applications, take a look at the new eazybusiness offering. The applications include email, document management, time and attendance, web meeting, invoicing, inventory management and sales force management. eazybusiness a...

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the formal launch of Linux.com. The Foundation took over stewardship of the site in March, at which time it began soliciting input from the community to help define ...

Bluenog has announced that NYU Langone Medical Center has deployed the portal development and enterprise components of its flagship product, Bluenog ICE. NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. NYU Langone is using Bluenog ICE to develop and ...

Larry Augustin, who hasn’t had a honest job since VA Linux hit the wall and he took his IPO winnings and turned venture capitalist, is now interim CEO of SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM ISV. The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other oppo...

SpringSource, the company behind the ever-popular but free Spring Framework, the Apache-licensed Java framework used by half of the Fortune 2000, said Monday that it’s acquired most of the assets of Hyperic, the company with the equally popular and open source web application and infra...

The watchtowers trained on the latest round of Microsoft-Yahoo talks on a search and advertising partnership report that they have finally become “meaningful” in the words of one source and could produce an actual contract in a few weeks. AllThingsDigital, the key observation post, cla...

SugarCRM has announced the GetSocial Twitter Module has been named the “Project-of-the-Month” for SugarForge.org. The GetSocial Twitter module allows companies to seamlessly integrate social marketing to Twitter from within SugarCRM. This new capability provides users with tools to imp...

Industrial Defender has announced it has formed a partnership with InGuardians Inc., a leading cyber security consultancy practice, to offer cyber security vulnerability assessment services for the Smart Grid. Under terms of the agreement, Industrial Defender and InGuardians will part...

There is no charge to attend CommunityOne on Monday, June 1, with only a nominal fee to attend the deep technology sessions on June 2 and 3. All CommunityOne attendees will receive free access to the JavaOne(SM) conference general sessions and Pavilion on Tuesday 2 June through Thursda...

This guide from thawte will help you understand SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their ...

This guide from thawte will introduce you to our Starter PKI Program – it explains how it works as well as the benefits it offers. This guide will also point you to a dummy company on our website where you can “test drive” the Program.

In this white paper from thawte, learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included.

Sugar Express delivers core sales, marketing, and support features, complete with Sugar Plug-Ins for Microsoft Office and access to SugarCRM Customer Support. Platform functionality includes Module Builder to create custom modules and Cloud Connectors to integrate third-party data serv...

Eucalyptus, the open source private cloud makings - and the widgetry underneath Ubuntu's newfangled cloud - is getting a VC-backed commercial company to run alongside it. Eucalyptus Systems Inc has kicked off with a $5.5 million A round from Benchmark Capital.

Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security. This guide from thawte will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MSIIS) web server with a Thawte digital certificate.

Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. In this white paper from thawte, find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use...

With 42 percent growth in bookings performance and 27 percent growth in services for the Q1 2009 period, Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, is benefiting from g...

Virident Systems, a newcomer run by a co-founder of SGI, has started down that sometimes thankless, unforgiving path of a disruptive new server company. For its value proposition it’s using Flash instead of traditional memory, targeting the Internet data centers like Google that now ac...

This guide from thawte will show you how Code Signing Certificates are used to secure code that can be downloaded from the Internet. You will also learn how these certificates operate with different software platforms.

OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.

Sun has put its open source GlassFish portfolio and identity management OpenSSO and OpenDS software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Sun said it was the first step in its strategy to offer its portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms.

FMS SunSystems 5.4 utilizes Infor Open SOA, a unique, event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, to provide a standards-based approach for integration of both Infor and non-Infor systems and data sources. Through Infor Open SOA, Infor customers can rapidly and economic...

This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.