Rackspace Hosting has sent its Cloud Servers API to public beta, a step on the way to open sourcing the thing and a big difference between Rackspace and rival Amazon. Cloud Servers is the company’s months-old Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) widgetry and the community-developed, stan...

The coding portion of SproutCore 1.0 is nearly complete, so it’s time to start work on some of the non-code parts of the SproutCore project. Today I just push a brand new version of the SproutCore website. The design is very simple, but unifies the wiki, blog, and main site so that...

A consumer-oriented Linux-based Internet operating system for netbooks that anticipates Google’s vaunted Chrome OS is already in private alpha in Paris. It’s called Jolicloud and – stop me if you’ve heard this one before – it’s supposed to “transform netbooks into sophisticated web dev...

Adobe announced the public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments and delive...

Rackspace Hosting has announced the availability of the public beta of its Cloud Servers API. Cloud Servers, part of the company’s portfolio of cloud services, is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides inexpensive compute capacity that can be instantly sized allow...

Aptana, Inc., a provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, today announced the completion of a round of financing led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and includes initial investor Accel Partners. "Aptana recently surpassed 4 million downloa...

BridgeWays, a division of Xandros, has released a series of management packs that enable system administrators to manage business critical applications on Windows, Linux, and Unix from a single console. The new management packs help extend Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 200...

VMware Monday was set to announce two new products well as a major release of its vCenter Lab Manager 4. The new products are vCenter AppSpeed, derived from VMware’s acquisition of Beehive, and Chargeback, developed in-house. According to Raghu Raghuram, general manager of VMware...

Jahia, the Swiss-based open source web content integration ISV backed by the European Parliament, has picked up Virgin America as a paying customer. The budding California-based airline, which is promising to make in-flight cattle cars humane with mood-lit cabins, custom-designed leath...

FatWire Software, a web experience management (WEM) provider, has announced new releases of FatWire Engage 7.5 for personalization and FatWire Analytics 2.5 for web content optimization. In conjunction with the FatWire Content Server web content management platform, FatWire Engage and...

Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed v...

Red Hat’s revenues were up 11.4% to $174.4 million in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. Subscription revenue was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year. It earned $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up 7%. Its non-GAAP income for the quarter was $28.7 million, or 15 cents a share, ...

Talend, the open source data integration ISV, has got a new near real-time data integration platform called Integration Suite RTX that offers seamless information synchronization across information systems and is supposed to bolster productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer serv...

Following on the heels of the release of Bluenog's award-winning flagship commercial product, Bluenog ICE 4.5, the company plans to contribute back the enhancements it made to numerous open source projects during its development phase.

Bluenog has announced the availability of Bluenog ICE 4.5, the only Enterprise 2.0 application development platform built on pre-integrated open source collaboration, content management, presentation and reporting projects. ICE 4.5 is the new release of Bluenog's award winning flagship...

Jitterbit, the open source house that has taken on large-scale enterprise-grade data and application integration – problems like connecting on-premise and cloud applications and data – is pushing on to Jitterbit 3.0, a major release of its solution. The new version, when it gets here –...

ParaScale and Alfresco Software have announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution co-locating Alfresco Content Management and ParaScale Cloud Storage software on the same hardware. Unlike traditional ECM architectures, the combined solution enables organizations to store and access ...

Opera Software, the nettlesome little Norwegian browser company responsible for Microsoft's current antitrust miseries with the European Commission, says it's "reinvented the web." Actually it's more a stab at reinventing the browser to make it more of the platform Netscape threatened ...

SugarCRM has announced that Roxtec, EASi and Tacamor are among the many companies worldwide who are running their customer-facing operations on the Sugar Open Cloud, SugarCRM’s global on-demand computing platform.

Solid Oak Software claims the Green Dam “censorware” that the Chinese government has ordered pre-installed on every PC sold in China starting July 1 contains programming code and proprietary encryption techniques from its anti-pornography CyberSitter package. In fact, it thinks that Gr...

Microsoft and Novell decided to revisit their eyebrow-raising pact the other day, the one that was signed in November of 2006 to the outrage of the FOSS mob, and let it be known – na-na-na-na-na – that it produced upwards of 100 new customers in the past six months, double the rate of ...

Novell means to create an open source apps store chockablock with free software that can be uploaded in a click, according to PC Pro. The British publication talked to Novell’s VP of business development Holger Dryoff. Apparently it’s aimed mostly at the netbook market where Novell pla...

The latest version of Red Hat’s free open source operating system, Fedora 11, is out. It’s supposed to include substantial improvements in virtualization, such as an upgraded interactive console, a redesigned virtual machine guest creation wizard and better security with SELinux suppor...

As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...

At the Hadoop Summit in California Wednesday Yahoo released the source code to its version of Hadoop, its Google-inspired distributed file system and parallel execution environment for sifting through Brobdingnagian-size data sets, for anyone to use. It’s not, however, commercializing ...

Cloudera, the Hadoop start-up with the glitterati backers that’s going mano a mano with Amazon over who’s gonna have the dominant commercial Hadoop implementation, is now going Amazon one better and supporting Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage, something Amazon’s S3-bound Elas...

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, has announced that the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop now supports running Hadoop on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) clusters with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) backed storage. Typically, Hadoop clusters on Amazon EC2 use local disks or ...

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The community's eleventh release includes the broadest feature set ...

Money is being made with Open Source. Some make spectacular money by exploiting Open Source (Google, Apple) and some things wouldn't even exist without it (Internet, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing) - so it really boils down to finding the right business model.

In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how Pathwork Diagnostics leveraged UniCloud to meet peak processing needs – saving on CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the capacity to innovate.

The Russian Academy of Sciences, South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, and MIMOS, a strategic R&D organization under Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation are joining the HP-Intel-Yahoo open source cloud computing research test bed, Op...

Acer could be the first of the big PC vendors to peddle an Android netbook. It means to start selling such a device in Q3. It has not said what the widget will cost or what portion of its output will be dedicated to the Google OS. The company is also supposed to be putting Moblin, the ...

Cloudera, the eight-month-old commercial Hadoop start-up that raised a $5 million first round last year, has gotten a $6 million B round it says it doesn’t need, led by Greylock with Accel Partners, an existing backer, kicking in. Greylock gets a board seat.

This white paper explains how the Actuate platform enables IT, business users and consumers to work together to continuously evolve reports by sharing report designs and engaging in iterative report development, as well as how to empower users to easily create and modify their own inte...

The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open sourc...

e.Spreadsheet Report Designer from Actuate is a free, easy-to-use report writing tool for creating authentic Excel files and reports that retain formulas, formatting, live charts and data connections.

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With the advent of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application technologies, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive. Popular web sites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and highly interactive. Do...

Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for a...

This report provides critical tips for building a long-term customer retention strategies and maintaining growth in a tough economic environment.