Jinfonet Software announced the release of JReport 8.2. JReport 8.2 delivers enhancements in three key areas: Performance improvements for large reports, greater developer flexibility and an enhanced user experience. Working in conjunction with the IBM Innovation ...

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Japan has chosen Sun to create an open, Web 2.0 architecture that will better leverage IT to deliver better government services to citizens. Japan, Singapore and Norway each join the growing list of governments that have alr...

ILOG announced ILOG JViews 8, the latest version of ILOG?s award-winning Java-based visualization suite that enhances the creation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and desktop applications for supervision and monitoring. ILOG JViews 8.1 introduces a new prese...

Tidal Software announced that Albany International Corp. is deploying Tidal solutions to assist in the rollout and to automate the ongoing operation of its new worldwide implementation of SAP. Albany is consolidating all worldwide data center operations onto a g...

Business Objects and SPSS announced the companies have entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement in which Business Objects will offer its customers the ability to use SPSS predictive analytics data mining technology as part of the market-leading Bu...

Sun Microsystems, Inc and the NetBeans community announced the availability of the award-winning NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). NetBeans 6.0 IDE extends support beyond Java by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript and the ...

Perforce Software announced that Ixonos Plc, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) System, to manage software development projects for its leading smartphone customers. Ixonos' telecommunications ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. The development of the underlying open source software is supported by the ...

SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21, has announced a strategic partnership with Hyperic. Under the terms of the agreement, SpringSource will use Hyperic's flagship open source software, Hyperic HQ, as the foundation of its new systems management offering. ...

At one of the world's largest FOSS events, held annually in India, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, announced last week a multi-year award program in support of fostering innovation and advancing open source within open source communities. 'We'll be p...

Sourceforge, the famous open source project site that's driving its owners to the poor house, has set up a fee-less commission-based online marketplace where service and support for open source software can be bought and sold. Called simply enough Sourceforge.net ...

eRacks Open Source Systems announced eRacks Hosting, a new division that will consolidate its dedicated hosting and colocation services. The eRacks Hosting facilities occupy racks in multiple Tier 1 datacenters in Silicon Valley, California, where the Internet bac...

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has resolved to formally request the Free Software Software Foundation (FSF) modify the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) so that mass collaborative projects such as Wikipedia can use and license existing GFDL content...

Likewise Software, formerly Centeris, has released Likewise Open, an open source community project that enables core Active Directory authentication for Linux systems by joining them to Active Directory domains. Likewise Open provides organizations that are strugg...

There's a new style of virtualization that made it into Linux a whole lot faster than Xen, which has been scratching at that door to no avail. The stuff is called KVM for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and it's supported by the latest cut of Linux, 2.6.20 and, like ...

TotalView Technologie announced that OpenGeoSolutions has chosen to use its TotalView Debugger to streamline the development of applications built on the company's OpenSeis processing toolkit. Based in Calgary, AB, Canada, OpenGeoSolutions is becoming known as t...

Open source-based software developer Novell has released the new version of Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the open source enterprise operating system, to cater to the financial market. According to Novell, the new version of Suse includes enterprise open s...

Concurrent Computer Corporation announced the availability of RedHawk - Cluster Manager software for its line of commercial off-the-shelf X-86 based systems including iHawk - multiprocessor systems and ImaGen - visual servers. The RedHawk Cluster Manager allows ...

Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, Inc announced their plans to develop new and innovatively designed games and applications for Google's free and open source mobile platform, Android. The company anticipates that this emerging platform will soon attract handset m...

SpikeSource, a provider of packaged and maintained open source solutions, announces the availability of its Open-Xchange Appliance powered by SpikeSource, a turnkey solution that bundles Open-Xchange Express Edition software into a comprehensive, enterprise-class ...

Cognos announced that Jordan?s Furniture has won the Technology User of the Year award given by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. These awards recognize the best and brightest technology innovators and leaders. Awards are also bestowed upon companie...

Two months after IBM decided to try to revive Lotus Symphony as a rival to Office, it says the free Symphony beta 2 has been downloaded by 250,000 registered users, 88% of whom are Microsoft customers. Twelve percent are using the Linux version, IBM says, and 50%...

Spring Source, formerly known as Interface21, a provider of open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the release of version 2.5 of the Spring Framework. With a focus on delivering enhanced annotation optio...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals in to the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a ...

Openbravo, the open source SMB ERP house, has acquired Librepos (née Tina POS), the open source point-of-sale application vendor on the theory that the retail market is very vulnerable to open source disruption. Terms were not disclosed. Librepos' main developer A...

Openbravo, the company with the open source SME ERP solution, has tied up with rPath to create a software appliance using rPath's rBuilder, Openbravo's first commercial product. An appliance should simplify deploying and maintaining the software in both physical a...

The packs consist of reusable functions combined to create cross-application workflows so users can navigate between apps, add new functions and make productivity improvements. To start, CorraTech will pre-package and pre-integrate Zimbra e-mail, Centric CRM and...

A South Korean ISV called Digito.com that created Soft Messenger, the first Korean instant messaging program, has filed suit against Microsoft seeking $32.7 million in damages, according to the English language local publication Digital Chosun. The ISV is evidentl...

VMS, or rather its modern avatar OpenVMS, is turning 30 and - having been gussied up with open source tools like Apache, XML, Java and JavaBeans - still claims to run 300,000 systems worldwide in the financial community, hospitals, manufacturing and lotteries. HP,...

Evidently Novell should be afraid - very afraid - because Canonical with its Ubuntu distribution, Dell's little playmate, the Linux Dell's pre-loading on a few of its PCs, clearly has designs on Novell's place in line behind Red Hat, the Linux leader. On Thursday,...

It is time to unite the community behind the standard, universal format for office suites and distance themselves from Ecma TC45 and DIS 29500. The participation of Gnome in Ecma TC45's apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS and...

The GNU Project has released version 0.96(.1) of GNU Classpath, an incomplete free implementation of the core Java class libraries. The main feature of this release is the new experimental GStreamer peer arising from the work of Mario Torre on his Google Summer ...

OpenLogic has launched a free web site called OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) where enterprise developers can go to find, research and download open source software that carries OpenLogic's seal of approval assuring them it's safe for enterprise use. The company says ...

Pentaho Corp. has announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides the general availability of new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling...

MySQL AB has announced that the Swedish National Police are implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software (OSS) infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL, and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently being ...

An international development team has announced the first official release of ProjectPier. Based on widely accepted technologies like PHP and MySQL, ProjectPier offers an open source collaboration solution that can be installed on any shared hosting server within minutes.

OpenLogic Exchange is designed for enterprises that want to use open source software. Today, enterprise developers must comb through massive repositories trying to find the short list of open source products that are viable and appropriate for their enterprise nee...

IBM has announced 'a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.' In other words, a rival to Microsoft Office. Symphony is available starting yesterday.

After 17 months of thinking about it, 13 judges of the Court of First Instance in Switzerland are supposed to rule early Monday morning on Microsoft's closely watched appeal from the European Commission's 2004 monopoly abuse findings, sanctions and record fines....

The OpenOffice.org community - responsible for the free software alternative to Microsoft Office - has welcomed IBM as a community member. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including acc...