Acquia provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. The company also threw open the doors on Acquia Projects, a collaborative envir...

Sun Microsystems announced the latest additions to its open archive portfolio, adding a midrange modular library and tape drive. In addition, Sun introduced enhancements to archive data security and release of a multi-tiered archive appliance that will work hete...

Zaheda Bhorat, Google's Open Source Programs Manager, has reiterated Google's position that Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) 'doesn't meet the criteria required for a globally-accepted standard.' The comment comes as the deadline approaches for ISO member bodie...

Jcx.Software announced the availability of VS.Php 2.4 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. This is the new edition to the VS.Php family of products. VS.Php users that are planning to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 should upgrade to this edition. VS.Php 2.4 continues t...

PivotStor announced a tape library that combines LTO-4 tape's reliability with SAS interface connectivity speed and the demonstrated economy of half-height drives. The result is a full line of tape libraries that integrate more capacity, more data density, more ...

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), marked its one-year anniversary with three new members, a global focus, and advances toward seamless interoperability between commercial open-source applications. 'The commercial open-source industry is no longer in an early-adop...

McObject has added support for the KD-Tree, a database index with uses in spatial and pattern-matching applications, to its Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database system. For developers working with Perst, the KD-Tree expands coding efficiency and ...

XAware announced the general availability of XAware 5, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services for SOA and Web 2.0 applications. XAware's proven data integration software, now in its fifth generation, makes it ea...

OASIS announced that its members have approved the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 1.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committe...

FalconStor announced the deployment of a Fibre Channel FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), powered by the FalconStor IPStor storage virtualisation platform, at the Office National Interprofessionel des Grandes Cultures (ONIGC). The FalconStor NSS solution, in...

Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero, says the company is seeing rapid growth on a number of fronts. The firm, which says it is complementary to the big four systems management companies (IBM Tivoli, CA, Compuware, and B...

Lattice Semiconductor expanded its commitment to open source embedded system design by releasing an implementation of the uClinux Operating System (OS) targeted for its LatticeMico32 embedded soft core processor. The new OS support allows developers to implement ...

Active Endpoints announced the availability of Milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server. ActiveBPEL 5.0 represents the release of an open-source implementation of both BPEL4People and WS-Human Task. These specifications allow human interactions to ...

Specsavers has completed a three-month project to scale its OpenLDAP directory services across six countries, as it gears up for further global expansion. Specsavers wanted a global solution for user lookup, authentication and access control with distributed adm...

Palamida announced that it has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance as an inaugural member. Through the program, Palamida will integrate their vulnerability reporting capabilities with McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), enabling customers to extend t...

'It's a continuation of the work that I've been doing the past 20 years,' affirmed Larry Augustin, one of the most respected figures in open source and the creator of SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source software development community, as it was announ...

'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie. To date Appcelerator ...

Vyatta announced that Liquid Computing has joined the Vyatta Ready Partner Program. Liquid Computing's LiquidIQ has passed interoperability testing with Vyatta software and is now approved as Vyatta Ready. The combination of technologies provides data center custo...

Talend announced the availability of Talend Open Studio version 2.3, the company's flagship open source data integration solution. The updated software, including over 30 new components, now connects to more databases and business applications, and enables real-ti...

OpenSpan announced that five of the top 100 largest banking and diversified financial providers in the Forbes Global 2000 have chosen the OpenSpan Platform to rapidly integrate, automate and extend applications across the enterprise desktop. The banks and other fi...

Some of the most scared people inside Yahoo right now have got to be the open source Zimbra crowd that Yahoo acquired last September for $350 million for its Microsoft-opposing enterprise-directed e-mail and calendaring, folks who just released their webby AJAX-ba...

Unicon Systems, developers and manufacturers of CCOTS mobile devices and scalable Systems-on-Display (SoD) technology for mobile and wireless applications, announced that embedded industry veteran Bill Weinberg would be joining their advisory board.

KnowledgeTree and Sybase SBS Software announced that they have signed a master distributor agreement to strengthen the relationship between the companies for actively promoting open source document management software solutions in Spain and Portugal. The agreement...

Carahsoft and Pentaho announced an exclusive distribution agreement. The companies will work together to address the large and growing demand for Pentaho's open source business intelligence (BI) software in federal government organizations. Under the terms of the ...

MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos addresses recent criticism directed at him by certain segments of the open-source community in an exclusive interview with Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Mickos also discusses his company's upcoming MySQL 5.0 release and what it means to ...

IBM and Avada Software announced a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Avada Software will deliver and support WebSphere Application...

The original founder of Covalent Technologies, Randy Terbush, writes in response to last Friday's report that Covalent has been bought by 3-year old SpringSource. 'I've bit my tongue on the many inaccuracies reported about 'Covalent' over the past 5 years,' writes ...

Apatar announced a technology and marketing alliance with EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company. Under the alliance, Apatar will support EnterpriseDB's Postgres-based database products as both sources and targets of data integration initiatives.

The WSO2 ESB team announced the release of version 1.6 of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The WSO2 ESB is an ultra fast, light-weight and versatile Enterprise Service Bus based on the Apache Synapse ESB. It allows you to Connect, Manage and Transform...

DataDirect announced the latest release of its DataDirect XQuery engine now supporting the MySQL Enterprise Server database. For the first time, users of the most popular and widely used open-source database can take advantage of the high-performance, scalability ...

Olocity Corporation is dedicated to delivering open standards based management solutions, products, and services and has acquired the StorageIM open source storage network management platform which will be integrated into its offerings. StorageIM is an open sourc...

Our very favorite reaction to the Sun-MySQL acquisition came from industry pundit John Dvorak who calls it 'perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions.' He says that given Sun's abominable track record wi...

'Business users are starving for reliable customer information,' said Renat Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar, as Apatar today officially announced StrikeIron Email Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. Khasanshyn is an ...

WebAssist announced iRite, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like, Microsoft Word.

CA announced a series of initiatives to help customers derive maximum long-term business value from their significant investments in mainframe computing technology. The role of the mainframe continues to evolve as enterprises become increasingly dependent on scala...

OpenLogic announced year-end statistics on enterprise open source adoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers.

CrownPeak announced how it is the first web Content Management software as a service (SaaS) to announce support for many of the new social networking standards -- especially Google's Open Social, Google Gadgets and other content published for inclusion on social networking sites.

Sangoma Technologies Corporation announced that they have partnered with PeopleTech, a provider of open source technology services and solutions, to expand distribution of Sangoma's premium telephony and data cards throughout India. Through this partnership, Peopl...

Evolve Technologies unveiled its new Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) and Offsite Backup services, designed for multiple Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 servers. This latest addition to Evolve Technologies' service portfolio is a continuation of the company's targ...

OpenMake Software announced a new consulting program, Build Mentoring, designed to assist organization in defining the build process beginning with development builds and ending with production releases.