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A week after resigning as CTO of the District of Columbia to become the first chief information officer of the United States of America under the Obama administration, the FBI raided the old D.C. offices of Delhi-born Vivek Kundra and arrested a couple of the guys who used to work for ...Mar. 13, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,856
RightScale has announced full support for the popular Ubuntu distribution as part of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The Ubuntu software development community can now use RightScale to deploy and manage cloud applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with compl...
With a global recession looming, software development managers are being asked to slash resource budgets in 2009 while maintaining schedules. When you need to deliver more features with fewer coding resources, there is only one answer: hybrid development. Hybrid software development in...
What with everybody dancing a few steps with everybody else – virtually speaking – Novell struck a broad collaboration pact with VMware so ISVs can build fully supported SUSE-based virtual appliances on VMware ESX. It's trying to entice VMware Studio-using ISV by offering them a free e...
Sun has lost the stickiness test. MySQL boss Marten Mickos, the operation’s former CEO and senior VP of Sun’s database group since its acquisition almost exactly one year ago, is following co-founder and MySQL’s original developer Monty Widinius out the door. Sun lost the open source d...
Smart Trade Technologies has announced that it signed an OEM agreement with EsperTech to embed their Esper event-stream and complex-event processing software in the smartTrade liquidity management system. Through this agreement, Smart Trade customers will have access to event-stream an...
Liferay has announced the 5.2 release of Liferay Portal Standard Edition. The open source solution integrates content management, collaboration, and social networking to help enterprises consolidate software investments. The latest release features enhanced performance and scalability ...
OPERA, the Open PLC European Research Alliance for a new generation of Powerline Communications integrated network technology, has announced that all its targets have been achieved and the Project is ready for its final review by the European Commission experts. This achievement puts a...
It's no secret that open source has turned into a market force, which is giving enterprise software some tough competition. The same can be said for SaaS businesses, which are steadily eating into the market share of the established on-premise players. While it could easily be assumed ...
Wikis are a great software tool for collaboratively creating and editing content. They seem to be an obvious choice for building a community Web infrastructure. Yet they have serious drawbacks that made JBoss.org choose a Content Management System (CMS) instead of a Wiki to build its n...
"The Internet IS cloud computing," according to a holiday-time broadcast on National Public Radio. The program, called 'Will Cloud Computing Work in the White House' aired December 21 on NPR's All Things Considered and involved NPR's Andrea Seabrook discussing with security and technol...
Sun has put out its promised UltraSparc T2 Reference Design Kit (RDK), meant to accelerate the design, development and testing of T2 processor-based embedded systems designs. T2 has eight cores and eight threads per core, and boasts one of the industry’s highest energy efficiencies per...
Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't...
Microsoft has started an open source blogging engine dubbed Oxite, targeted initially at developers who want to learn ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft allows that the community could push it out for consumers. The Oxite FAQ asks why we need another blog engine and answers that "At the time of th...
Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winner? Wi...
High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and health care. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable the...
Open Invention Network (OIN), the three-year-old IP league started by IBM to buy up patents to deter Microsoft from asserting its patents against Linux, apparently got bored waiting for Microsoft to make a hostile move. So to fill its idle time and justify its existence, it's concocted...
There's a new release of OpenSolaris out – OpenSolaris 2008.11 – out a whole three weeks before the end of 2008. There was a 2008.05 release, aka Project Indiana, in May but that wasn’t as commercial or production-oriented as this one. Both run only on x86 machines, not Sun's own Sparc...
Red Hat has put money into Jaspersoft. The open source business intelligence (BI) ISV has gotten $12.5 million in financing in a round led by private equity house Adams Street Partners with Red Hat and Jaspersoft’s five existing investors participating. This is Jaspersoft’s fifth trip ...
The two-year anniversary of the Novell-Microsoft alliance that scandalized the open source community passed quietly enough earlier this month. The pair waited a couple of weeks to mark the occasion and then said that in the second year of their arrangement they added upwards of 200 new...
Zoho, the prolific Microsoft wannabe that has already proven it can knock off a web app at the drop of a buzzword, is branching out into middleware. It’s come up with some widgetry – aimed at developers this time, not end users – called CloudSQL that’s supposed to let people interact w...
db4objects has sold its open source object database business, native to Java and .NET, to Versant to focus on Servo, a newfangled user data management service. Price was not disclosed. The company will now be known as Servo Software Inc. Versant traffics in specialized data management ...
To no one's particular surprise, Novell missed its quarter. Wall Street thought it could turn six cents a share on $249.78 million. Instead it lost $16.3 million, five cents a share, on flat year-over-year revenues of $245 million in its fourth fiscal quarter ended October 31. It lost ...
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), the two-year-old consortium dedicated to interoperability and the adoption of open software, has picked Anthony Gold, who runs Unisys' open source business, to be its president. He replaces SpikeSource exec Dominic Sartorio. The organization has also ...
Oracle threw some data integrity protection code over the wall and it's been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. It reportedly lets the Linux kernel utilize key data protection information for the first time in its life. It's also the first implementation of the T10 Protection Infor...
Thanks to a sketchy notice in the Official Journal of the European Union we now know a tad more about why Intel has taken the European Commission to court. Seems Intel is accusing the EC of making it the butt of a "discriminatory and partial" antitrust investigation because the EC won'...
AMD sent out a short sharp message Thursday morning saying that the way things are going it expects revenues from continuing operations this quarter to be ~25% lower than they were last quarter and that was only $1.585 billion. Its calculations do not include process technology license...
IBM is taking another shot at blowing Microsoft off the desktop and this time it’s got the foul economic winds at its back. In the name of cost cutting, IBM is proposing that companies virtualize their desktops and turn them into thin clients using Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise R...
"Ruby on Rails is always evolving and has over the past five years gone through some fifty-plus public releases," said David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails and member of the Rails Core Team. "Rails developers need the supporting ecosystem to keep up with that evolution. New Relic...
VMware, the struggling virtualization leader, has, as expected, put View 3 on the market to do battle with Citrix' XenApp and XenDesktop widgetry. It's supposed to be a big advance in virtual desktop computing, described by the company as a major step in its vClient Initiative, which w...
The promised beta release of Moonlight 1.0, the Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight widgetry, has finally wended its way out. Moonlight is of course the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight and should give Linux users the same rich, high-definition media ca...
