Microsoft has managed to get sued for unfair and deceptive practices over those little 'Vista capable' flags that flew on boxes in shops for months in the run-up to the Vista launch in January. A woman bought one only to discover it will only run a very basic Vista.

IONA Technologies has acquired LogicBlaze, a privately held, probably straining open source SOA and business integration venture, on undisclosed terms. It called it a 'smallish transaction.' LogicBlaze was started by Winston Damarillo, the guy who did Gluecode Sof...

Vyatta, which has a line of enterprise-style open source network infrastructure products like routers and firewalls, has picked up $11 million in B Series financing from Comcast Interactive Capital as well as ArrowPath Venture Capital, ComVentures and Panorama Capital.

Richard Stallman just delivered extensive remarks about the state of open source and the GPL, and now a survey shows that there may be a 50/50 split within the open source community concerning whether the GPLv3 will be a good thing.

In order to understand the GNU General Public License, first you have to understand what free software means. Free Software means software that respects the users' freedom. Software that's not free is proprietary software. Non-free software, user subjugating softw...

OpenLogic has added more than 60 new open source products to the OpenLogic Certified Library. OpenLogic Enterprise 4.4 provides improved enterprise-wide management of open source policies across the enterprise, the company says. It has add functionality in a numbe...

The OpenEAI Sample Enterprise 2.0 includes the OpenEAI ESB 4.0 along with a pre-developed set of gateways and open source applications packaged to provide immediate functionality and a ready-made environment for testing, prototyping, and pre-deployment evaluatio...

Rackable Systems, Inc., a provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, has announced its first sale of Concentro, Rackable Systems' new modular, containerized data center product.

Sourcefire Inc, the intrusion detection and prevention house whose mojo is based on the popular open source Snort system, went public last Friday at $15 a share, higher than the $12-$14 initially proposed and raising $71.8 million. Despite the turbulence of the ma...

Open Source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to enterprise. This session explores where open source is getting the most traction in SO...

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars...

'Our goal when developing Helmi's open source product,' said Jorden Woods, CEO of Helmi Technologies in the U.S. 'was to allow companies to leverage their development team's knowledge base and shorten the learning curve to maximize productivity.' Woods was speak...

Intalio,the Open Source BPMS Company announced the donation of its trailblazing BPMN process modeler to the Eclipse Foundation. The technology is now available under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and is part of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project.

Palamida, a provider of software assurance management products and audit services, announced a partnership with Innoopract, a provider of Eclipse-based add-on tools, consulting, support, training and open source distribution solutions.

This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world Open Source SOA implementation, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of : How to impleme...

Our cross-industry survey on the openness of open source - How Open Is 'Open'? - resonated so strongly with Neelan Choksi, of Interface21, that he composed a brief essay in response. We bring it to you here in full.

Arjé Cahn, CTO of Open Source Content Management developer Hippo, will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. He runs the Hippo open source team at www.hippocms.org. and has earned his ...

Neelan Choksi - VP, Americas, of Interface21 - will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Before Interace21 Choksi founded SolarMetric, which was acquired by BEA Systems.

SameDesk is a first realization of OpenSpot's effort. In its core, SameDesk may be described as a virtual desktop environment where applications serving directly from different web sites and domains are allowed to work together seamlessly and securely for the user...

Stratus Technologies and XenSource announced they have signed a collaborative agreement with the goal of fusing continuous availability and virtualization technologies to create new IT infrastructure solutions with superior reliability, flexibility and manageability.

Hyperic, pioneer in multi-platform, open source systems management, announced today the availability of the industry?s first virtualization management solution Hyperic HQ for VMware. This pioneering solution enables data centers to consolidate complete discovery, ...

Total Enterprise Virtualization has been made possible, primarily, by the strong adoption of VMware server virtualization and the maturity and affordability of new virtual SAN software solutions like DataCore's SANmelody(TM). In addition, an ecosystem of virtual...

Stratus Technologies, Inc., a leader in IT technology and services for continuous availability, and XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen(TM) hypervisor, today announced they have signed a collaborative...

Cassatt Corporation has announced the availability of Cassatt Collage 4.0. This version of Cassatt's flagship product includes new virtual machine and network virtualization control capabilities, helping organizations use automation to radically simplify data center management.

IBM has introduced what it calls the industry's first dashboard for major virtualization platforms, a thing called Systems Director, an extension to IBM Director. Users are supposed to be able to discover, monitor, and manage physical and virtual resources from a ...

IBM announced its extensive portfolio of middleware and systems platforms will support Novell's new SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 offerings. The new SUSE Linux Enterprise offerings incorporate the open source Xen virtualization software to help businesses increase se...

SpikeSource, a provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement with Hyperic Inc, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, to certify and resell the industry's leading open source systems management platform, Hyperic HQ(TM). U...

The OpenVZ project announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on Linux 2.6.9, including for the first-time in a stable branch, fully-tested and performance-tuned live migration and Virtual Et...

MySQL has introduced what it calls an all-you-can-eat one-year 'Enterprise Unlimited' subscription to its database for $40,000. The 'unprecedented low price' looks like it's meant to dislodge existing site licenses for Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, IBM DB2 and Ora...

Having turned out an up-market storage engine for MySQL capable of heavy transaction loads supporting a lot of concurrent users, Solid Information Technology has sketched out its plans to add new features to solidDB for MySQL.

In a session this June at Enterprise Open Source Conference & Expo 2007, analyst Raven Zachary from The 451 Group will explore the emerging trend of proprietary software vendors transitioning to an open source business model, spurred by the success of open source software.

'The Linux Foundation helps in the next stage of Linux growth by organizing the diverse companies and constituencies of the Linux ecosystem to promote, protect, and standardize Linux,' said Jim Zemlin, former executive director of the Free Standards Group, and n...

Despite Apple's attempts to make it all go away, the SEC, which is known to be sensitive about forged documents, has reportedly started poking around Apple and that imaginary October 19, 2001 board meeting that voted Steve Jobs options on 7.5 million backdated sha...

HP has created a new division inside its software operation called the Business Information Optimization Group. The new unit will be broken into two groups, a business intelligence group and an information management group. The business intelligence group will ha...

SmartGRAPE (http://www.sm art-grape.org), an open source collaborative community working to improve predictive recommendationsystems for online buyers, announced the launch of its community codedevelopment system and the seeding of starter recommendation algorithms.

'One of the major barriers to utilizing open source software is confusion of what options are available to IT managers and the benefits that these solutions bring to the enterprise,? said Bruno von Rotz, vice president of Optaros Switzerland, as Optaros this week ...

TIBCO today announced that it has become a sponsor of Direct Web Remoting (DWR), the popular AJAX communications library.

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

Pentaho, creator of the open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced the Google Code is featuring Pentaho?s AJAX-based integration with the Google Maps API. Pentaho?s example was selected as a compelling and innovative example of the flexibility and powe...

IBM and seven leading U.S. universities announced new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to help promote an open approach to overcome ...