Sun Microsystems has introduced its Netra Dataplane Software (NDPS) Suite for the telecom market. Sun's new software is the first standardized tool to quickly and efficiently deliver dataplane applications for the aggregation, transport and routing of voice, vid...

Sun Microsystems has announced that the Taiwan telecom giant Chunghwa Telecom has chosen its Sun Fire servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) - the most advanced OS on the planet - to power its Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) back-end server platforms. This so...

Terracotta announced that the company is open sourcing its Java clustering product line to accelerate adoption by developers using open source frameworks. Terracotta provides drop-in clustering solutions that enable developers to achieve high availability without ...

OSDL - sponsor of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, as well as other key developers, and dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux-based operating systems in the enterprise - is parting company with its CEO, Stuart Cohen.

Any minute now Dan Bricklin, the guy who co-invented VisiCalc back in the olden days - and so precipitated the computer revolution - is going to deliver the first release of wikiCalc, a GPL 2-governed next-generation spreadsheet written in the Perl scripting l...

UBmatrix announced plans to Open Source their XBRL processing engine software code by the end of the year. While the company will continue to offer customers a commercial version of the UBmatrix Processing Engine that is fully supported, scalable, and maintains co...

Novell has pulled its people out of the Hula project that it set up a year ago February as a GPL-governed open source mail, calendaring and mail search alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Hula was someplace for Novell to dump its old NetMail product.

At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference the other day in Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer picked up the biggest, fattest, slitheriest worm out of that can of worms he opened up when he cut that deal with Novell and got Novell to squirm...

nPulse Networks Systems, integrator of hardware acceleration tools for open-source network monitoring and security applications, announced that it has released a new toolkit for application developers. The 'Catapult toolkit' is a development platform designed for ...

BitTorrent announced it has closed $20 million in Series B financing. New investor Accel Partners led the round with participation from initial investor DCM. This latest round of funding will support the company?s growth, building on its leadership in high-perfo...

Intalio, Open Source BPMS Company, announced the release of the Tempo workflow framework under the Eclipse Public License. The release of Tempo under an Open Source license follows the donation of Intalio's BPMN modeler to the Eclipse Foundation and Intalio's BPEL...

Pentaho, creator open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced that international nitrogen products producer Terra Industries has selected the Pentaho BI platform to provide advanced reporting and analysis based on data in Terra?s SAP R/3 system. Terra ...

Anyone wishing to get a technical insight into some of the ways the TIBCO General Interface team, which has been in the AJAX business for 5 years now, has architected the product, can now peek at the fully commented and unobfuscated source code.

Coversant announced that a complete suite of open source software developer kits (SDKs) for building custom XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) based collaboration applications are available at Coversant's new online Developer Community. The develope...

Alfresco Software, provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, announced results for the first open source JSR-170 benchmark. The results were based on a 10 million document repository and validated by 3rd party open source Enterprise Conten...

Rivet announced plans to release its Dragon View XBRL viewer application in open source to further drive software innovation and adoption. Concurrently, Rivet also announced an update to its i-Fi Suite of interactive Financials applications designed to leverage th...

According to Unisys experts, 2007 will be the year that open source software attains the architectural backing and distribution channels needed to gain acceptance from enterprise customers as a front-rank vehicle for deploying enterprise applications to drive busi...

CollabNet unveiled openCollabNet, a new online community based on Web 2.0 principles and built around Subversion and CollabNet solutions. Developed as an extension to CollabNet's products, the new site connects the 1.5 million users of CollabNet and Subversion, al...

Autodesk marked the one-year anniversary of the release of its MapGuide Open Source product and its feature data objects (FDO) source code. Over the past year, this web-mapping platform has gained traction among the geospatial developer community, which is now inc...

GroundWork Open Source, announced an OEM agreement with Unisys Corporation,a global technology services and solutions company. Under the terms of the agreement, Unisys will offer GroundWork Monitor Professional, GroundWork?s flagship open source based IT Operati...

ThoughtWorks announced the release of dbdeploy . An open source tool for developers and database administrators (DBAs), dbdeploy is a simple solution to the problem of managing and deploying database refactorings to development, quality assurance (QA), user accept...

'We think Novell's Linux patent deal with Microsoft will hurt the company's standing in the open source community. We don't see Microsoft providing a sustainable lift to Novell's distribution woes.' With those two damning sentences, Credit Suisse analyst Jason May...

QUAD, developer of an innovative Converged Delivery Platform (CDP) that integrates rich media content and data into one seamless converged system, and OpenClovis, provider of the premier open source, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) application service platform, ...

RadView Software announced that it is supporting the development of high-quality Open Source software by providing every Open Source project with a free copy of WebLOAD, the company's Web application scalability testing product.

CETIC, ICT research centre announce that the HPC4U European research project active in GRID computing technologies just released the first freeware version of its fault tolerant grid middleware providing fault tolerance for parallel applications. This system, base...

uXcomm, provider of systems management platforms for device and software system manufacturers, announced support for Nagios? popular open source host, service and network monitoring program. With uXcomm's XManage platform Nagios customers can now automate command...

According to Microsoft it's a patent deal and according to Novell it's an interoperability enabler and joint sales agreement. Now Novell insists it hasn't acknowledged that Linux treads on Microsoft IP, and says only that 'The intended effect of this agreement wa...

The rSmart Group, provider of commercial support for the open source collaboration and learning environment Sakai, announced that it would begin providing commercial support and its rSmart Sakai CLE, a Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE), to three separa...

CorraTech, an open source solution provider, announces 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 strateg...

Nokia Foundation has granted its 2006 award to Mårten Mickos for his merits in advancing the use of Open Source technology and for his inspirational leadership of an international software company. The EUR 10,000 award was presented at the Foundation's scholarship...

BlueBridge One, provider of on-demand business solutions, has announced the formation of a partnership with Viridian Sun to supply an EPOS front-end for the NetSuite application. The two companies have formed an alliance that will allow BlueBridge One to offer an...

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.