Inside the BriefcaseTweet 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 […]
Tweet SOURCE: Talend Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, announced today that it has acquired Sopera, a leading provider of open source SOA and middleware platforms, creating a global leader in open source middleware solutions that ranks among the top five global pure play open source vendors. Simultaneously, Talend completed […]
Tweet SOURCE: Nuxeo Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announces the latest release of Nuxeo Enterprise Platform, now with native support for JBoss AS 5.1, as well as JBoss EAP 5.0.1. The new 5.4 version of Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP) and Nuxeo Document Management (Nuxeo DM) also features support for Apache […]
Tweet SOURCE: Red Hat The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, recognizing college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project. The Fedora Scholarship is awarded to one high school senior […]
Tweet SOURCE: Times of the Internet The U.S. military seems to favor the Android operating system, to the detriment of other systems on the market. Case invoked seems to be that it provides the ability to customize applications running on it and to adapt them to their specific needs. Moreover, this step was expected, since […]
Tweet SOURCE: PC World There are many ways that vendors of proprietary products try to scare business customers away from open source software, and one of the more commonly heard examples involves vague fears about compliance with open source licenses. There’s nothing like the specter of a good lawsuit to scare a company back into […]
Tweet SOURCE: Cloudera Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software and Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced at Informatica World 2010 the two companies are partnering to provide customers with the solutions needed to address the challenges associated with managing […]
OpenERP seems to be a rarity among open source business software companies. There are no special enterprise editions — open source and paying customers get the exact same software and features — yet the company has managed to turn a profit on services and hosted solutions.
GoAhead’s record sales results come as a capstone to a very busy and successful year for the company. The company made significant progress across a broad range of initiatives.
Cloudera, a leading provider of Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced its final major update to Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop version 3 beta release.
Tweet Have you cleaned up your Linux installation lately? On its face, that question might wrongly mark me as a Linux newbie, much like a Linux newcomer asking about antivirus and antimalware software. But I am far from being a newbie to Linux. That said, three program packages designed to clean out your Linux dustbins […]
Tweet Gartner has recently published its Magic Quadrant report, which amongst other things, shows that with a shift towards Web 2.0, cloud and consumer facing portals, the number of viable vendors has dropped from more than 50 in 2003 to less than a dozen in 2010. Read More
Tweet SOURCE: Oracle Corporation Press Release Oracle and IBM today announced that the companies will collaborate to allow developers and customers to build and innovate based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Specifically, the companies will collaborate in the OpenJDK community to develop the leading open source Java environment. With today’s news, […]
