Inside the BriefcaseJoomla has long been a popular option as a content management system, and has been used to run many large sites and business portals. Traditionally, Joomla has competed well not only against fellow open source CMS products such as Drupal and Wordpress, but also against commercial content management products.
Tweet SOURCE: Tuxera Tuxera, the leading provider of Windows and Mac compatible file systems for Android, Linux and other platforms, announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that it has joined Intel Embedded Alliance. Tuxera supports Intel’s latest consumer electronics hardware and software initiatives providing the market-leading Tuxera File System Suite including NTFS, exFAT, […]
Tweet SOURCE: Timesys The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Timesys Corporation is its newest member. Timesys has been providing Linux offerings for more than 15 years and was one of the first companies to market with an open source, commercial-grade, embedded Linux development framework (LinuxLink). […]
Tweet SOURCE: SiliconIndia For many years Open Source ERP has been quietly maturing. With a large following from impartial sites like SourceForge.net and Open Source ERP Guru as well as the sites sponsored by Open Source ERP integrators and commercial Open Source companies, the information and collaboration is remarkable. The key to ERP is maturity […]
Tweet SOURCE: Internet.com The move to cloud-based infrastructure is one that is set to dominate networking discussions in 2011. One of the leaders in the move to cloud is networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), which provides servers, routing and switching infrastructure that enables cloud computing deployments. At this stage of cloud development and deployment, standards are […]
Tweet Novell could remain a public company for a bit longer than first anticipated. In November, privately held software vendor Attachmate announced its intention to acquire Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) for $2.2 billion. Part of the Novell acquisition involves another deal with a group called CPTN Holdings, which is set to acquire 882 Novell patents for […]
Tweet SOURCE: Cloudera Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced that it has become an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) sponsor. Furthering its commitment to open source, Cloudera’s sponsorship of the non-profit, volunteer-run foundation will help aid organizational, legal and financial support for a broad range of Apache licensed projects. […]
Tweet SOURCE: CMSWire As year moves toward a conclusion, it is time for a moment of reflection. Don’t worry this won’t involve any ghosts waking you from your eggnog fueled holiday slumber. We simply look back at the top five events of 2010 that were most meaningful in open source and will continue to influence […]
Tweet SOURCE: Oracle News Facts Further enhancing the popular, open source, cross-platform virtualization software, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0. Part of Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of virtualization solutions, Oracle VM VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop computers to run multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, allowing users to get the most flexibility and utilization out of their PCs, and […]
Tweet BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source BPM solutions, today announced that there are now over 100 paying customers using Bonita Open Solution, the company’s open source business process management (BPM) suite. This milestone comes less than a month after BonitaSoft reached the half million download mark of the Bonita project. More than 70% […]
Tweet Jaspersoft, provider of the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced several enhancements to its open source community site, JasperForge.org. The company has added new services to JasperForge.org including out—of—the—box reporting features, which will provide its developer community — now over 180,000 developers strong — the greatest possible functionality for developing […]
Tweet Speaking shortly before Christmas, cabinet office minister Francis Maude reiterated the importance of open source software for future government contracts. Speaking to a delegation of large IT suppliers, including BT, Cap Gemini, Hewlett Packard and IBM, Maude pulled no punches, stating: “The days of the mega IT contracts are over, we will need you […]
Tweet SOURCE: WSO2 WSO2 today announced the launch of WSO2 Application Server 4.0 (formerly WSO2 Web Services Application Server). Among the new features in Version 4.0 is full support for Apache Tomcat, providing the ability to run Web applications and Web services on the same server and manage them through a unified console. Because WSO2 […]
Tweet SOURCE: NetworkWorld With the explosion in web applications coupled with the explosion in mobile computing, testing performance, scalability and compatibility is an expensive and consuming process. One company, Sauce Labs is leveraging the open source Selenium web application automation testing suite and the cloud to make this process quick, easy and very affordable. I recently had a chance […]
Tweet SOURCE: ECT News Network Information A company that tries to implement a cloud infrastructure in a closed-source manner is already going against the grain, adopting an approach contrary to that of the companies that built the cloud. If you consider doing things the closed-source way, you should prepare yourself to buy more expensive hardware, […]
Open source veteran Shaun Walker shares how users can avoid the eight pitfalls of choosing and implementing a CMS and how to maximize the value of the chosen solution.
Tweet SOURCE: Red Hat Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud. Makara’s technologies will accelerate the development of Red Hat’s comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio. Based […]
A highly practical book introduces Camel and shows examples of how to use it with the 45+ supported enterprise integration patterns. Written by the people who wrote the Camel code, it’s up to date and distills details and insights that only people deeply involved with Camel could provide.
A thorough, practical guide to implementing message-oriented systems in Java using ActiveMQ. The book lays out the core of ActiveMQ in clear language, starting with the anatomy of a JMSmessage and moving quickly through connectors, message persistence, authentication and authorization.
Tweet Social networking project Diaspora, which has recently created waves as an open source alternative to Facebook, is sending out invites to a small number of people predominantly donors to try out an alpha version of the site. Others who have signed up will be next in order of priority. Read More
Open source data management specialist Talend has acquired German service-oriented architecture (SOA) provider SOPERA.
Tweet SOURCE: MuleSoft MuleSoft, the open source provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant for Shared SOA Interoperability Infrastructure Projects.The “Magic Quadrant” assesses the vendors that provide these capabilities in their application infrastructure middleware […]
Tweet SOURCE: WSO2 WSO2 today announced the launch of four cloud middleware services for extending enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations to business users. Based on middleware products from the award-winning open source WSO2 Carbon middleware platform, they provide proven technology for managing and monitoring business rules and processes on a public cloud, private cloud, or […]
Tweet SOURCE: BonitaSoft BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source BPM solutions, today surpassed 500,000 downloads of Bonita Open Solution, the company’s open source business process management (BPM) suite. This significant milestone comes less than a year after BonitaSoft first released Bonita Open Solution 5.0, when downloads accelerated from 1,000 per month to 40,000 per […]
Tweet SOURCE: Red Hat Red Hat, Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has expanded its outreach to introduce open source into the computer science curriculum at leading colleges and universities. As a member and catalyst in the Teaching Open Source community and through its sponsorship of POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience) […]
Tweet SOURCE: ProcessMaker Working to provide users with a high quality customizable HR solution, ProcessMaker, the leading open source workflow & BPM solution and OrangeHRM, the leading open source HRIS solution announced a strategic alliance to provide improved out-of-the-box integration capability between OrangeHRM and ProcessMaker. The alliance between ProcessMaker and OrangeHRM will benefit clients from […]
Tweet SOURCE: SugarCRM SugarCRM, the world’s fastest growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, today announced new Global, Mobile and Social features to its award-winning CRM suite. Highlights include a new native iPhone application, new international support and languages, and cool new social CRM and media management features. Mobile: New iPhone Application Boosts Mobile Productivity The […]
Tweet SOURCE: PRWeb Evolven Software Inc., the pioneer of Granular Configuration Automation solutions, today announced a formal partnership with JBoss, by Red Hat, the leader in enterprise-class open source middleware. Evolven will join JBoss’s ISV Partner Program and create joint solutions aimed at offering greater visibility into granular configuration information that can affect the availability […]
Tweet Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced ecosystem support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners. With its simple certification model that allows partners to deploy applications in any environment – physical, virtual and cloud – with a single certification, […]
Tweet SOURCE: CRN Linux and open source technologies have started gaining acceptance and momentum with a host of technologies associated with FOSS having reached levels of maturity that are comparable with the best the proprietary software world has to offer. A perceived lower cost of ownership has been pushing enterprises and SMBs to switch to […]
