Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates into new high s...

In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open source software was 'free like a puppy is free.' Just as you can pick out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can download and use open source software without buying a single...

OrecX announced the formal debut of its Oreka Total Recording (TR) software solution for customer service management professionals, leveraging the power of open source in bolstering efficient call-center operation. Oreka TR allows organizations to comply with regu...

Black Duck Software announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses...

In the first annual survey of its membership and other open source software and services companies, the Open Solutions Alliance found much optimism despite a murky economy with 83 percent of participants saying they would see a year-over-year increase in revenue i...

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based s...

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is an open source, identity management project, providing highl...

Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID) has concluded a system integrator partnership agreement with U.S.-headquartered Apatar to distribute its open source data integration suite in South Africa. KID will use, consult, train, and offer support services for the Apata...

SnapLogic announced the SugarCRM Solution Pack, an extension to the SnapLogic open source data integration framework. SnapLogic enables enterprises to integrate data on both sides of the enterprise firewall and to create custom integration solutions, including a...

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 Soluti...

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 ex...

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 ...

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 Pr...

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 busin...

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-opt...

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...

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, elimin...

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...

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 Featur...

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 throu...

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, innovati...

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 Microso...

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 th...

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 tool...

'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...

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 acquir...

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...

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 ...

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.

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 rangin...

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.

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 Enterp...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 tec...

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 an...

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...

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 an...

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 pla...