The OpenJDK project has released an early access source code snapshot of implementations of the Java Module System (JSR 277) and Improved Modularity Support (JSR 294). JSR 277 addresses modularity from a deployment unit perspective, addressing distribution format,...

Transitive Corporation, a provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, has released Version 1.2 of QuickTransit for Solar is/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 solution.

MuleSource, a provider of open source infrastructure and integration software, has announced that Estafet Open, the specialist agency supplier of IT consultants to the European market, has joined the recently launched MuleSource Partner Alliance program.

Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems, will join the current efforts to improve the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format by increasing the interoperability be...

Zend Framework, a class library available for PHP 5 Web application development, has followed a mission to provide classes that are extremely simple, yet powerful and extensible.

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere and WebSphere CE application servers, and Hibernate, a high-performance object/relational mapper. With these new ca...

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, has announced support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition. With this addition, Terracotta 2.4 can now be used to deliver scalability...

Sun is donating storage technologies to the OpenSolaris community so it can create cheap storage solutions that, it says, will run on anybody's commodity hardware - IBM's, Dell's, HP's or its own. It's trying to position OpenSolaris as 'the industry's most compr...

Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is Director of Embedded & Open Source Technology at Motorola. Prior to Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives at the Open Source Development Lab (now the Linux Foundation) which included promoting the ...

The Group will discuss open source trends in systems management. Panel participants will discuss both the benefits and precautions to take when investigating open source management software.

Nora Denzel recently retired from HP as the senior vice president and general manager of HP's over one-billion dollar software division. At HP, Denzel led one of the most dramatic turn-arounds in the software industry by reinvigorating HP's OpenView and OpenCall ...

The FSF left in the tentative grandfather clause that Novell needed to use GPLv3 software upgrades, revs or programs in its SUSE Linux operating systems so no immediate risk of a fork there. And Novell says that it will move to GPLv3 code as necessary. However, th...

Performance and availability of Linux servers are critical system attributes that are growing in important due to incorporated approaches to high availability, especially in Linux telecommunication servers offering five and six nines availability. This paper dis...

'They have ethical and community responsibilities to return at least those modifications that are not critical to their business and that are of general value to the community,' said Eben Moglen. 'We will see over time whether there are additional measures neces...

Three open source companies got funding this week: Zmanda, MuleSource and SnapLogic. Zmanda, the open source backup and recovery ISV, got an $8 million Series B round led by Helion Venture Partners with current backers BlueRun Ventures and Canaan Partners kicking ...

Spring, the open-source, lightweight web application framework for the Java platform, first written by Rod Johnson in 2002, is under discussion in an exclusive interview with SYS-CON.TV's Roger Strukhoff. Johnson and Neelan Choksi, both of Spring company Interface21, took the call...

MySQL CEO Marten Mickos recently spoke about open-source software and how its freedom does not relate simply to products, but to successful business models. He pointed out that there are 30 million developers around the world, building the Internet, often with ope...

According to Microsoft, 'Our customers have told us their data needs can't be addressed by a one-format or one-standard-fits-all approach. Everyone wants to use their data in slightly different ways. That's why we are enabling customers to pick from whatever forma...

The agreement enshrines the pretzel-like position Novell has been forced to adopt because it appears to be paying Microsoft not to sue its customers for using Linux. In a one-sentence disclaimer it says that, 'Nothing in this agreement shall imply, or be construed a...

Microsoft is starting four open source projects that are supposed to help web developers support information cards, the primary mechanism for representing user identities in the exchange of personal identity information on the Internet. The projects will implement...

Novell has issued its 10K form, other documents, and a press release relating to its controversial agreement with Microsoft, which has generated criticism from members of the open source community and an assertion by Redmond that Linux may violate more than 200 of its patents.

Will Novell's disclosure of an edited version of its agreement with Microsoft take some of the heat off Novell created by the deal? 'It's hard to say,' said Novell's Bruce Lowry. 'The community has complained about not seeing it, so they'll see it. However, there ...

Following the great tradition of releasing potential dynamite after the business day closes, during a big holiday week-end no less, here are key links to documents from Novell that contain information relating to the company's arrangement with Microsoft that form ...

MySQL has tied up with Austrian ISV Linbit, which supplies high-availability Linux widgetry called DRBD. MySQL is going to support the Four9s LAMP technology directly. It's meant to narrow the gap between MySQL and proprietary databases. It says, 'Only large ent...

Interface21, a provider of open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, has announced the roadmap to Spring Web Flow 1.1, the latest release of the Web application framework.

Terracotta, Inc., a provider of solutions for enterprise Java scalability, has announced the general availability of Terracotta 2.3, the latest release of the company's open source Java clustering solution.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Passlogix announced an expanded strategic partnership that will result in tighter integration between the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system and the Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform authentication and enterprise si...

JasperForge.org is an online developer site that provides free access to software and tools to build, deploy, and extend open source BI software. Projects range from developer tools to integration toolkits to localization powered by an interactive online translati...

Novell told the SEC Thursday that some of its stock options from November of 1996 through last September were backdated, but claims its investigation found 'no intentional wrongdoing by any former or current employees or directors.' Novell hasn't filed financial r...

Cassatt, a provider of enterprise software to enable dynamic IT infrastructures, has announced a partnership with XenSource, the infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the Xen open source hypervisor, under which Cassatt will be able to sell XenEnterpri...

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, http://www.oas is-open.org), is a member-led, international, non-profit standards consortium focused on global e-business. OASIS drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-bu...

Microsoft has managed to get sued for unfair and deceptive practices over those little 'Vista capable' flags that flew on boxes in shops for months in the run-up to the Vista launch in January. A woman bought one only to discover it will only run a very basic Vista.

IONA Technologies has acquired LogicBlaze, a privately held, probably straining open source SOA and business integration venture, on undisclosed terms. It called it a 'smallish transaction.' LogicBlaze was started by Winston Damarillo, the guy who did Gluecode Sof...

Vyatta, which has a line of enterprise-style open source network infrastructure products like routers and firewalls, has picked up $11 million in B Series financing from Comcast Interactive Capital as well as ArrowPath Venture Capital, ComVentures and Panorama Capital.

Richard Stallman just delivered extensive remarks about the state of open source and the GPL, and now a survey shows that there may be a 50/50 split within the open source community concerning whether the GPLv3 will be a good thing.

In order to understand the GNU General Public License, first you have to understand what free software means. Free Software means software that respects the users' freedom. Software that's not free is proprietary software. Non-free software, user subjugating softw...

OpenLogic has added more than 60 new open source products to the OpenLogic Certified Library. OpenLogic Enterprise 4.4 provides improved enterprise-wide management of open source policies across the enterprise, the company says. It has add functionality in a numbe...

The OpenEAI Sample Enterprise 2.0 includes the OpenEAI ESB 4.0 along with a pre-developed set of gateways and open source applications packaged to provide immediate functionality and a ready-made environment for testing, prototyping, and pre-deployment evaluatio...

Rackable Systems, Inc., a provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, has announced its first sale of Concentro, Rackable Systems' new modular, containerized data center product.

Sourcefire Inc, the intrusion detection and prevention house whose mojo is based on the popular open source Snort system, went public last Friday at $15 a share, higher than the $12-$14 initially proposed and raising $71.8 million. Despite the turbulence of the ma...