Zend is going to join the IBM-inspired Java-based open source Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and kick off an overarching open source initiative that it calls the PHP Collaboration Project to create an industrial-grade PHP web application development and deployment environm...

Novell says it's giving open source developers their first glimpse of the kinds of desktop software designs that are succeeding with end users. It suggests they can mimic them. The company also said the data is supposed to help developers refine applications, including adjustments to m...

What do ABN Amro Bank, Cendant Corporation, Continental Airlines, and Fidelity Investments have in common? They all have decided to embrace Linux, and propose to use open source technologies in mission-critical scenarios.

Quest Software Inc., a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced that the new version of JClass ServerChart is now certified by IBM as an integrated plug-in for the IBM Rational Software Development Platform (SDP), which is built on E...

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new beta version of its email client, Thunderbird 1.5. Accoding to Scott MacGregor of Mozilla.org, 'Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the last beta release of the next major Thunderbird update and is aimed at tes...

At the end of this month (October 2005) Alfresco will be launching the full release of the world's first open source enterprise content management solution. The repository, which was released a few months ago, has already been downloaded 10s of thousands of times with developers and en...

'Not very many Web hosting services can boast a presence in a Tier 1 data center,' said Gabriel Wong of WebAppCabaret.com. 'Our Tier 1 data center is part of the global Internet backbone, with privately owned multi-gigabit US and European networks. They are, in essence, the Internet. T...

Do you recall BEA's Alfred S. Chuang giving interviews to the trade press as recent as early last year and swearing to God that BEA customers did not give a rat's dudu about Eclipse? Then what happened? BEA proudly announced their membership to Eclipse.org this year.

RUP is a software process platform that has guided some 500,000 developers around the world in projects ranging from small-scale product development to large industrial-strength systems, according to IBM. It comprises what IBM says is 'a vast collection of methods and best practices fo...

Continuent.org, a new open source portal and community dedicated to high availability and scalability services for databases and other closely related technologies, officially launched.

Technalign has announced the release of Business Desktop Beta 1. As part of the release of Business Desktop Beta 1, Technalign has established projects open to the business community. Those business community projects include Desktop, Enterprise Server and a closed source business man...

The JBoss Reporting Portal by JasperReports, is being called the industry's first open source reporting technology integrated with the JBoss Application Server and JBoss Portal technologies.

'Brian's vision and experience make him the right person to lead Emerging Technologies as our CTO,' said Paul Cormier, EVP of Engineering at Red Hat, as it was announced that Brian Stevens from today is Red Hat's new CTO.

Oracle Corporation has announced the acquisition of Finland-based Innobase OY. Innobase is the developer of discrete transactional database technology, InnoDB, that is distributed under an open source license. InnoDB is not a standalone database product: it is distributed as a part of ...

IBM has announced new Power 5-based systems for SMEs this week claiming to shatter 15 world records in key benchmarks for entry-level Unix and Linux servers.

Novell has tapped Thomas Francese, an ex-IBMer, to be president of EMEA, reporting to Ron Hovsepian, head of worldwide field operations and also ex-IBM. Francese, who used to be a VP in IBM's EMEA software group, will be on Novell's worldwide management committee.

The Wicket web application framework project has anounced the release of version 1.1-rc2. A statement on the Wicket website reads, 'The second release candidate for Wicket 1.1 is available for download and testing. We expect this to be the last release candidate. Most notable changes a...

Glen Smith, the developer of opencsv has announced the release of version 1.0 of csv parser library opencsv. Talking about the release on his blog, Smith says, 'Ending my obsession with all things comma-delimited, I've deployed 1.0 final of opencsv to Sourceforge. This version adds the...

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, component toolkit for J2EE and Struts. The Beehive goal is to make J2EE programming easier by building a simple object model on J2EE and Struts. Using the new JSR-175 annotations, Beehive reduces the coding neces...

The Apache Geronimo development team has released Milestone 5. According to an official statement, 'The Geronimo team released its Milestone 5 build today, the first build that is J2EE 1.4 certified. A certified milestone release means this build, while not as stable and feature-rich a...

The French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) announced its membership in ObjectWeb, an international nonprofit consortium of companies and research organizations who have joined forces to produce next-generation open source mid...

The University of California's patent for Web-browser technology was reaffirmed this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, when it published its notice that the office has completed its re-examination process and will issue a re-examination certificate of the patent first chall...

Codase, Inc., a leading source code search company has announced the release of the alpha version of its advanced source code search service, with the service being made immediately available through its website. Codase is a new kind of search service for open source code. Rather than ...

Nearly half a year after the end of the StarOffice 8 Beta Program on April 7th, 2005, StarOffice 8 will finally be available this week.

The GPL is 'slowly destroying the market for independent software applications' and the FSF is out 'to destroy the intellectual property value in computer software,' according to a letter sent by Daniel Wallace to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

A Piper Jaffray analyst says JBoss and GlueCode are pressuring BEA's app server business on the pricing front and delaying WebLogic sales until GlueCode releases its J2EE version of Geronimo later this year.

Oracle announced the introduction of the 'Hot-Pluggable' capabilities of its Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. These 'Hot-Pluggable' capabilities highlight the ability of its middleware platform to tightly integrate with other (non-Oracle) middleware products and databases as we...

SugarCRM announced today that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork to support Oracle Database users that adopt Sugar Enterprise Edition, the latest product in the company's suite of open source customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.

The Free Standards Group, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, and the LSB workgroup today announced the availability of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.0, an essential component for the long-term market success of Linux. T...

The Apache Software Foundation has posted the first beta of Maven 2.0, an open source build tool for Java that's more declarative and less procedural than Ant. According to the Maven site, 'Maven 2.0 will feel very different to a Maven 1.0 user - and perhaps a little strange. But it is...

Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a major update of a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam. SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which the...

Canadian content management vendor Simian Systems Inc released SiteForge - the most user-friendly open source collaborative development platform available, the company says. SiteForge helps open source developers and distributed development teams centralize project development, source ...

'PortletSwap will help us continue growing the JBoss Portal community while at the same time providing functional and creative 'out of the box' portlets, themes and layouts,' said JBoss director of product development Pierre Fricke as JBoss today announced its new one-stop shop for Jav...

Aonix, a provider of solutions for safety and mission-critical applications, released the latest version of the ObjectAda development environment, targeting Linux as the first supported operating system. In addition to supporting an Eclipse-based development environment targeting missi...

The Open Source Development Labs today announced the appointment of Dave Rosenberg to a newly-created position as Principal Analyst. In this role, Rosenberg will publish analyses of market trends, manage marketing communication programs and evangelize OSDL's mission to increase adoptio...

Today Novell announced a series of key customer wins, new technology offerings, and community initiatives at its BrainShare Europe event in Barcelona. Under the new banner of Software for the Open Enterprise, Novell highlighted key solutions and products in five core customer IT areas...

Stellarium version 0.7.0, an open source desktop planetarium program, has just been released. Stellarium is freely downloadable software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL.

The patents covered by CA's non-assertion pledge address various technologies and CA says they can be used in a full range of open source projects. Among the patents mentioned by CA are those that cover application development and modeling that automates translation between programming...

FishEye painlessly opens up repositories and helps developers get the perspective they need to better understand the changes they are making to their source.

Several big changes have been made and several big new features have been added. With this release InfoGlue has taken the step from being only a good CMS to now being a Portal/CMS hybrid which was always the intention, its developers say.