http://jdj.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Enterprise Open Source News Desk Copyright 2008 JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:23:00 GMT JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/612943.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/612943.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT IONA announced that Chariot Solutions has become a FUSE Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA's FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers' enterprise Open Source requirements. As a FUSE Partner, Chariot Solutions' consulting customers will have access to IONA's services for its FUSE product family, featuring fully supported, enterprise releases of leading Apache Open Source projects including ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/613544.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/613544.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:45:00 GMT Photon Infotech announced the opening of the Photon Drupal Training Center, a new facility that will leverage and expand Photon's experience and expertise with Drupal, an open-source PHP-driven Content Management System. With a goal of certifying 200 new Drupal experts a year, Photon will have the industry's largest and best trained army of Drupal consultants in the world. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/612801.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/612801.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Optaros has launched DoCASU 1.0, a user interface framework for Alfresco deployments as an open source project. The project will drive open source adoption rates and help users assimilate Alfresco's enterprise content management systems. DoCASU 1.0 leverages the understanding gained from corporate user requirements and utilizes Rich Internet Application technologies such as the ExtJS AJAX framework. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/610501.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/610501.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT Black Duck Software announced that IONA Technologies has licensed and deployed the Black Duck Protex platform to ensure the proper use and validation of open source code in IONA's product development organization. IONA developers, managers and legal counsel use Protex to increase the efficiency of the development process by evaluating open source licenses, security issues and other potential complications related to open source code assembly. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/609365.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/609365.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT Apatar launched Apatar On-Demand for Salesforce.com CRM and QuickBooks accounting software. Apatar On-Demand Edition is a hosted service that synchronizes order data between Salesforce.com CRM and desktop QuickBooks accounting software. It was designed for business users, so the process of setting up the integration link does not require technical skills. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/606506.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/606506.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Jedox AG announced the release of Palo 2.5, the latest version of its flagship application that allows enterprises to centralize key Excel spreadsheet data for use throughout the organization. Leading the lineup of valuable improvements to Palo 2.5 are a newly-optimized MOLAP (Multidimensional OnLine Analytical Processing) engine and intelligent local data cache, giving users even faster read and write-back performance. Other improvements include faster multi-dimensional data processing, an enhanced multidimensional formula editor, and an advanced query capability. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/607040.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/607040.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:15:00 GMT ApacheCon US 2008, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will hold this year?s event in New Orleans on November 3-7, 2008. ApacheCon brings together users, developers, vendors, and speakers to discuss groundbreaking Open Source practices and issues, with updates of developments from The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It offers educational presentations, hands-on training sessions, and networking opportunities. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/600046.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/600046.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT Apatar announced the CDYNE Death Index connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector verifies the Social Security number against the U.S. Social Security Death Index database and returns whether the customer is departed, eliminating the possibility to use a deceased person's identification or deliver goods to individuals who do not exist. Using the CDYNE Death Index Web service, Apatar checks the legitimacy of social security numbers extracted from corporate applications (such as Salesforce.com and SugarCRM) or databases (MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle, etc.) and allows for this data to be filtered or cleansed. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/599711.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/599711.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:30:00 GMT Protecode announced the general availability of its software development tool for governance and Intellectual Property (IP) management. The latest release enables commercial software developers and open source creators to accelerate managed adoption of open source code in a simple, painless process. Additionally, the software is now available to the Eclipse community for anyone working on an active Eclipse project. Protecode automatically generates records of software content, identifies and reports associated pedigree and licensing information by checking its properties and compliance against an organization's policies, establishing IP ownership and creating a software Bill of Materials (BOM). http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/600165.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/600165.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:30:00 GMT AccuRev announced that Mediasurface standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM). As a result, development teams in the United Kingdom and Bangalore, India now work as a set of integrated teams for managing Feature Driven Development, its agile approach to manage the software release process. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/594206.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/594206.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:15:00 GMT Jaspersoft announced the availability of its new Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition. Jaspersoft v3 marks a major milestone for open source business intelligence software by providing rich enterprise-class functionality delivered through state-of-the-art interactive Web 2.0 interfaces. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/592104.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/592104.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT Likewise Software announced that it has been named as category award-winning finalist in the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. Red Hat selected six finalists in the second annual Red Hat Innovation Awards, designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat solutions by customers, partners and the open source community. One Red Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected from the six finalists during the Red Hat Summit, taking place June 18-20, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/310943.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/310943.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT Open source innovator and Snort creator, Sourcefire, announced the availability of OfficeCat, a free security tool that enables users to easily identify potentially threatening Microsoft Office files. Unlike products that detect attempts to exploit known Microsoft vulnerabilities, OfficeCat can determine if a file contains hostile content before it is opened. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570127.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570127.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:45:00 GMT Palamida announced that Sterling Commerce has selected Palamida as its solution to manage and secure its use of open source software. By including Palamida solutions in the engineering lifecycle process, Sterling Commerce is taking an important step to reduce the business risks associated with undocumented code. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/575736.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/575736.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT Apatar announced connectivity to IBM DB2, a family of relational database management system products from IBM that are widely used in enterprise applications, corporate ERP systems, and mainframes. The new connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset allows reading and writing of data from/to DB2 tables and improves the quality of data during migration or integration, all without custom coding. With this release, Apatar enables both developers and users to easily link DB2 information between third-party applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), other databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL), flat files (CSV/TXT), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds). http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/575703.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/575703.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT 'This is a nearly inevitable response to Open Social, which is backed by Google, MySpace and Yahoo,' noted Michael Arrington today as he predicted that 'Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project.' Arrington continues: 'Expect to see the four major technical pieces of Facebook Platform - FMBL (markup language), FQL (query language), FJS (Javascript library) and the Facebook API to be open sourced and made available to anyone.' http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/530435.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/530435.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT IONA announced that it has become a Silver Sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to consensus-based, collaborative software development. Financial sponsorship will help ASF to acquire servers and hardware infrastructure, purchase bandwidth and needed resources, and increase awareness of ASF projects and incubating initiatives. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570758.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570758.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Ingres announced an open source version of Ingres OpenROAD, the company's platform for rapid application development. The open source version of Ingres OpenROAD is now available as a free download via the Ingres community website at http://community.ingres.com. By open-sourcing Ingres OpenROAD, more users will be able to try the product and build rapid application prototypes. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570803.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570803.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Dimdim announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community. The new version, called Dimdim Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, nicknamed 'Eagle,' is completely free and available for download. Dimdim 'Eagle' is a unified communications platform created for and by the open source community. To date, this community has downloaded Dimdim's free open source web meeting software over 230,000 times. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570128.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/570128.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT Ingres announced that it has stepped up its involvement in the open source community to drive validation and adoption of open source. Among the company's open source initiatives are the Ingres Janitors Project, Open Source Boot Camp and the Global Ingres University Alliance. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/468350.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/468350.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 09:30:00 GMT Ulitzer.com, which will be launched in 2008, with 5,500 authors and more than 550,000 original articles, is looking for enterprise software architect(s), programmer(s), and Web app developer(s). The site will offer original content in more than 2,000 topics ranging from AJAX to Zebra. Ulitzer claims that by 2010, three out of 10 books on any subject will be published at Ulitzer.com, and Time Magazine, The New York Times, Scientific American, and the rest of today's magazines and journals will be replaced by Ulitzer in the next five years. Ulitzer is looking for talent who will work on the conversion of its proprietary CMS to a new, open source, LAMP-based system. Ulitzer Website advertises that if you have one of the following qualification points in your resume, to apply for one of the open job positions. All applications will remain confidential. Ulitzer annouced that they identified Drupal Content Management Platform as their platform of choice and they are looking for Drupal developers experienced in delivering large scale applications on this platform. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/563151.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/563151.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 07:30:00 GMT OpenOffice.org is publicly beta testing OpenOffice 3.0, which is not recommended for production use. General release is expected in September. Aside from cosmetics, it will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and is capable of opening Office 2007 and 2008 for Mac OS X files. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/560953.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/560953.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 13:15:00 GMT Red Hat announced the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration initiative announced earlier this year, which is aimed at fostering adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware by increasing its capabilities for large-scale enterprise use. Available in modular format, JBoss ON 2.0 provides organizations with an end-to-end application management solution to coordinate the many stages of the application lifecycle and improve operational efficiency through a single integrated tool. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/561944.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/561944.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sun also announced a new GlassFish Partner initiative designed to provide developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) with access to a large number of frameworks and applications running on the GlassFish application server. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/560780.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/560780.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT Sun Microsystems and the global OpenSolaris community announced the availability of the OpenSolaris Operating System (OS). According to the company, OpenSolaris, based on Sun's Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration, offers the combination of innovation, platform stability and support to meet business and development needs. It combines the foundation of Solaris technologies and tools with desktop features and applications developed by open source communities such as GNOME, Mozilla and the Free Software Foundation. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/559468.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/559468.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 18:30:00 GMT In his opening keynote at the annual CommunityOne open source developer conference, Ian Murdock, vice president for Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems, will discuss the increasing role communities play in the software industry, how technologies and the companies and communities that create them are increasingly interconnected, and how the power of community can and should play a role in next generation platforms. Additional Sun executives keynoting at the event include Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president, and Rich Green, executive vice president of Software. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/557960.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/557960.htm Sat, 03 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT 'The world is moving to open source innovation, and Sun continues to lead that revolution,' said Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, as Sun reported yesterday its Q3 fiscal 2008 results. 'We continue to invest in the future created by open alternatives to proprietary technologies, best exemplified by the acquisition of MySQL,' Schwartz added. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556958.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556958.htm Thu, 01 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT PrismTech announced that the two open-source middleware communities are merging their CORBA Component Model (CCM) initiatives, underpinning the company's OpenFusion CCM offering. The Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group and the OW2 Consortium - with support and contribution from PrismTech - are combining their efforts to advance the development and deployment of CCM technology. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556230.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556230.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT Veteran Business Intelligence (BI) entrepreneur Ward Yaternick has released his latest business analytics product, nextanalytics 3.0, with industry-disruptive pricing, top-tier product functionality, and easy online distribution. nextanalytics 3.0 emulates MySQL's strategy, offering business analytics capabilities. Yaternick has spent nearly 20 years in the BI industry, including key development roles at Cognos, OLAP@Work, and Business Objects. In 2003, Yaternick founded Ottawa-based nextanalytics with the mandate to deliver innovations in business analytics. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556487.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/556487.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:15:00 GMT Sun Microsystems announced the addition of developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. Over 3,000 members and 30+ projects within an active and growing OpenSolaris storage community demonstrate a groundswell within the storage industry for developers and enterprise companies to use open source alternatives to expensive proprietary storage offerings. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/553693.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/553693.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT Aras announced expanded operations throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa [EMEA] and opened an EMEA headquarters office in Solothurn Switzerland to meet the growing demand for the Aras Innovator enterprise software solutions. As part of the expansion, Aras plans to add sales and support operations and extend the partner network across the region to provide local geographical representation. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/549075.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/549075.htm Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:45:00 GMT Ingres announced the appointments of Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres, to the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors, and Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Ingres, to the board of directors of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). McGrattan and Woods are known figures in the open source community, with the promotion of open source solutions at the heart of what they do each day. The growing adoption of the open source business model worldwide has led to the expansion of open source organizations promoting interoperability such as the OSA and open development platforms like Eclipse. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/548069.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/548069.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:00:00 GMT Sun Microsystems announced the availability of MySQL Workbench, a new visual database design tool that integrates data modeling, physical database design, database creation, change management and documentation capabilities into a single, seamless environment for MySQL developers and DBAs. MySQL Workbench is available for download in two versions: an open source Community Edition and a (US) commercial Standard Edition. Both are available now for Microsoft Windows, with future cross-platform support for Linux and Macintosh OS X under development. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/547402.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/547402.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, announced the results of its first annual board of director elections. The OSA, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in February, filled three vacant board positions by electing Deb Woods, vice president of product marketing at Ingres; Josep Mitjà, chief operating officer at Openbravo; and Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager for the Open Source Business at Unisys. They join existing board members Michael Harvey, EVP and CMO at Concursive, and Dominic Sartorio, OSA President and Senior Director of Product Management at SpikeSource. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/546883.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/546883.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT Exadel announced Exadel dVision, the company's Rich Internet Application for on-demand access to enterprise data stored across multiple data sources, has been certified for MySQL Enterprise 5.0. As a MySQL Enterprise Certified Partner, Exadel's new enhanced support for the MySQL open source database software provides full integration between dVision and MySQL Enterprise. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/543881.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/543881.htm Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT Novell is the company stuck in an open source malaise, not Sun Microsystems, at least according to Simon Phipps, chief open source officer for Sun. While talking with IT Business Edge, Phipps responded to comments Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian made regarding the future of Sun and OpenSolaris during a recent Linux Foundation podcast. Phipps said that Hovsepian quoted inaccurate download numbers for OpenSolaris while criticizing Sun's open source strategy. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/540234.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/540234.htm Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT Apatar announced the release of its new StrikeIron US Address Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. Using StrikeIron?s US Address Verification Web service, the new feature relies on United States Postal Service-certified technology to verify, correct, and enhance any address in the United States with live data. It cleans customer data before it gets into CRM/ERP systems, databases, flat files, and RSS feeds by correcting extracted addresses, adding ZIP+4 data, specifying congressional districts, carrier routes, etc. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/537252.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/537252.htm Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT JasperSoft announced that Cincom Systems has selected the JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite to power all Cincom BI applications. Cincom will standardize on JasperSoft as its business intelligence platform across its software offerings, extending the value of BI and reporting to all Cincom customers. http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/538163.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/538163.htm Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMT Intalio announced an agreement with NTT Data Intramart to integrate Intalio products into Intra-mart, its Web platform. In conjunction with this integration, NTT Data Intramart will also add two new applications to the Intra-mart Web platform, a Risk and Control Matrix (RCM) and a Form Relation Editor (FRE). http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/528638.htmhttp://jdj.sys-con.com/read/528638.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:45:00 GMT Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community announced the availability of NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment (IDE) Beta. NetBeans 6.1 Beta adds a rich set of features for JavaScript technology development, a key component for delivering AJAX web applications and tighter integration of MySQL database functionality.