OSCAR is a software package that supports the use of high-performance computing by reducing the work of cluster configuration, installation, operation, and management. The infrastructure underlying OSCAR 5.0 has been completely reworked to include smart package ...

A new research report found that WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition -- IBM's open source application server software based on Apache Geronimo -- is gaining share nearly three times as fast as rival JBoss.

MySQL AB, the developer of open source database, announced that Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen GmbH has standardized on MySQL for all its appropriate future IT needs. The German lottery company based its selection on the success it has had using MySQL Cluster to run its...

Open Country announced the debut of OCM Webmin Plus, an enhanced release of the Webmin open source IT system administration tool. OCM Webmin Plus, developed in partnership with Webmin creator Jamie Cameron, is the first open source product from Open Country, providi...

Helmi Technologies, announced the launch of the first beta release for its Open Source RIA Platform v2.0. Now as an open source release, Helmi's Platform makes it easier than ever for enterprises and developers to rapidly and cost-effectively create browser-indepe...

Pentaho announced new web-based ad hoc query and reporting capabilities for the Pentaho Reporting module of Pentaho?s BI suite. The new functionality utilizes an innovative new open source metadata layer that facilitates self-service query and reporting by shieldi...

On November 2, in a move that has caused a stir in the community, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together 'to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows' and for Microsoft to 'redistribute' more than 350,000 ...

Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm, announced that it has closed $13 million in Series B funding. Globespan Capital led the round with participation from existing investors, Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. Optaro...

On Wednesday, Novell's chief marketing officer, John Dragoon, sent a statement to journalist Roger Parloff after he'd written seeking comment on Eben Moglen's statements about making changes to GPLv3 to make it obvious that the Novell-Microsoft pact violates its terms.

Pentaho, creator of open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced that open source database provider MySQL AB has selected Pentaho's BI Suite Professional Edition among other leading third-party BI software for internal business analytics and reporting.

Fonality announced that Asterisk and trixbox expert, Kerry Garrison, has joined the company as senior product manager for trixbox. Garrison has spent more than 20 years in the information technology industry and is an authority on Asterisk and telephony systems. A...

Qlusters, provider of open source data-center provisioning and management software for physical and virtual environments, announced plug-in support for Dell DRAC, HP ILO and Intel IPMI enabled systems. As a result, organizations can now better manage power consump...

EnterpriseDB, enterprise open source database company, announced that Vonage, a broadband telephony provider, has deployed EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. Vonage plans to implement EnterpriseDB to support a number of different applications over time. EnterpriseDB al...

CodeGear announced JBuilder 2007, an enterprise-class integrated development environment (IDE) built on Eclipse to make collaborative development fast and reliable for Java, open source and the web. CodeGear JBuilder 2007 accelerates developer velocity with Visu...

Daniel Wallace, who has been fighting a quixotic pro se battle against the GPL on antitrust grounds, has lost his appeal to the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The court decided that 'The GPL and open source software have nothing to fear f...

HighStreet announced the launch of SpectraView Carrier Monitoring. HighStreet SpectraView and Xpress combine an open standards based platform with advanced Web 2.0 services to deliver off-the-shelf fault resolution, configuration management, performance management...

Squiz announced that it will be demonstrating the latest release of it?s enterprise-class open source CMS, MySource Matrix, to Internet Publishers at the Information Management Solutions Show at London?s Olympia. Version 3.10.0 of Matrix contains over 90 new featu...

Sun says it's releasing the class libraries and the parts of the virtual machine that expose public APIs under the GPLv2 Classpath exception developed by the Free Software Foundation that will let any application, GPL or otherwise, link to the library without that ...

Intel is supposed to formally introduce its quad-core Xeons on Tuesday, November 14, almost a week after Dell said it stood ready to deliver servers and workstations based on them.

On Sunday, the Samba open source software project, which provides file-and-print services between Linux servers and Windows clients, took to its web site and publicly expressed its distaste for Novell's deal with Microsoft.

On Sunday, the Samba open source software project, which provides file-and-print services between Linux servers and Windows clients, took to its web site and publicly expressed its distaste for Novell's deal with Microsoft. It wants Novell to repudiate the patent ...

IBM, currently number three in clusters behind HP and Dell, is determined to be number one by the end of 2008, according to Wendy McGee, program director of its Cluster Solutions Brand & Business Unit. Bearing down on its mark, IBM has been growing at 29%.

MySQL AB, developer of open source database, and NitroSecurity, a provider of high performance and scalable enterprise security solutions, announced they have signed a strategic agreement to jointly develop and market a database engine for MySQL based on NitroSecu...

The 451 Group, a New York-based technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation, introduced a new report that serves as a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source. A significa...

Liferay, provider of enterprise-class open source software products, announced that its professional services group has implemented Liferay Portal 4.1.2 for the new public Web site of HanseMerkur, Germany?s second-oldest mutual insurance company and a major provid...

Open standards consortium, OASIS, has initiated a new effort aimed at standardizing semantic search and content analytics. The work of the OASIS Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Technical Committee will advance a common method for meaningf...

The Open Source BPMS Company, announced the release of Intalio|BPMS 4.3, the first Business Process Management System (BPMS) to support the BPMN, BPEL, and BPEL4People industry standards for BPM.Intalio|BPMS 4.3 provides support for the Business Process Modeling ...

Unisys Corporation announced that it has signed a worldwide systems integration (SI) agreement with Alfresco Software, provider of an open source enterprise content management (ECM) solution. With this agreement Unisys becomes Alfresco?s first Platinum-level SI ...

CorraTech announced an alliance with SpikeSource to deliver a suite of open source composite business management applications, integrated within a service-based approach and powered by SpikeSource?s SpikeNet service. As a strategic member of SpikeSource's Partner ...

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced plans to host an Open Source Health Care summit as part of their upcoming 2007 conference, SCALE 5x. The focus of this event will be on the use of open-source software in the health care industry. The goal o...

IBM has announced that more than 600 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators have joined IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition partner initiative since it was launched just six months ago. WAS Community Edition is IBM's ope...

IBM has announced two major steps intended to assist in the open development and standardization of search and content analytics software. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has established a Technical Committee to s...

Packt Publishing announced the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award as Joomla!, with Drupal and Plone coming second and third respectively. The winning CMS was selected by a panel of judges, and 16,000 votes from users on www.PacktPub.com.

Tekes (the Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation of the Finnish government) launches a national development programme for open source business. Programme is carried out by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software. Open Source Business Programme wil...

Sogeti and ObjectWeb announced the availability of pre-release 1.0 of Telosys - an open source AJAX framework for Java EE specifically designed to facilitate migration of client/server applications and rapid development of new applications.

Zenoss announced the availability of Zenoss Core version 1.0. Zenoss Core is an integrated IT monitoring product that allows IT administrators to manage the status and health of their entire infrastructures through a single web-based console. As a free, open source ...

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of software compliance management solutions, released comments related to Sun Microsystems? decision this week to open source Java. Many organizations are using open source code to develop software, and the Sun anno...

Akaza Research announced the availability of OpenClinica 2.0, the open source clinical research software platform. This new release includes enhancements in the areas of data capture, study design and management, usability, and security. OpenClinica is based on pu...

The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), announced at the Software Defined Radio (SDR) Technical Conference and Product Exhibition the latest release of its SCARI Software Suite, an integrated development environment for SDR technology. Built on the open...

AlterPoint announced an open source project named ZipTie. The goal of ZipTie is to create a community that will advance network management beyond the limitations imposed by proprietary, vendor provided device management. The ZipTie community, which can be access...