OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.

Sun has put its open source GlassFish portfolio and identity management OpenSSO and OpenDS software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Sun said it was the first step in its strategy to offer its portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms.

FMS SunSystems 5.4 utilizes Infor Open SOA, a unique, event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, to provide a standards-based approach for integration of both Infor and non-Infor systems and data sources. Through Infor Open SOA, Infor customers can rapidly and economic...

This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.

The Open-Xchange free webmail promotion – announced two months ago – is fueling new deals. First, NameCheap – with 1 million domains – and now Versatel – Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider with 1.3 million e-mail accounts – have signed on with Open-Xchange....

"Having MySQL makes business sense for Oracle," former MySQL's former chief executive, Mårten Mickos, told an interviewer this week as Oracle, through its proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4BN, positioned itself to become the next owner of MySQL. Mickos does not agree wit...

Today's announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo (http://www.mysqlconf.com) being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corpo...

MySQL, written in C and C++, was first released internally on 23 May 1995. Version 5.1 was released 27 November 2008 and the next version will MySQL 6. In April 2009, Oracle Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase Sun Microsystems, current owners of the MySQL intellectual pro...

"To me, this proposed acquisition totally redefines the industry," wrote Jonathan Schwartz this morning to Sun's employees in a company-wide email announcing the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Among other remarks, Schwartz adds: "Let me assure you [Oracle is] single minded in [its] focu...

Novell has updated its Client for Windows, the widgetry that enables Novell Open Enterprise Server connectivity. Novell calls it a major revision of the Novell Client and says it allows a Vista workstation to log in to Open Enterprise Server or NetWare. It includes performance enhancem...

Gear6, the two-and-a-half-year-old start-up that kicked off accelerating NFS, is branching out into Memcached, figuring the open source widgetry is going to turn into one of those industry pulse points like web servers used to be before they got ubiquitous. Memcached is a general-purpo...

Infobright, the Toronto-based open source data warehousing company, is pushing out rev 3.1 of its low-cost software. It adds x86 Solaris 10 support to its Enterprise Edition and an enhanced SQL Framework to both its Enterprise and Community Editions so the widgetry should appeal to a w...

As with earlier Shuttle Mini-PCs with pre-installed Linux operating system, the X270V uses openSUSE - now in version 11. All PC functions are configured after the first start-up in only a few steps and can then be used immediately. Expansion with program packages is possible at any tim...

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and each topic may contain thousands of peer-reviewed feature stories, bylined articles, blog posts, news, reviews, comm...

The Linux Foundation is adding the openSUSE Build Service to the Linux Developer Network (LDN). It’s the only development platform that can be used to package software for all the major Linux distributions as well as provide transparent infrastructure for the creation of the entire ope...

Cloudera, the start-up that going to commercialize Hadoop, the Google-inspired, Apache-fostered open source software that powers the data processing engines behind some of the biggest and most popular web sites - sites like Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google itself - even Microsoft - p...

Open-Xchange has announced that NameCheap is the first to take advantage of the Open-Xchange free webmail promotion – providing a modern webmail, plus optional collaboration software upgrades. Open-Xchange software integrates e-mail, calendaring, contacts and task management with advan...

Aptana RadRails 1.2 is now available. In addition to making it even easier to get your Rails environment set up and configured, for new and expert users alike this release makes deploying and updating your Rails apps to scalable servers via Aptana Cloud Connect as easy as a few clicks....

fstab and mtab are two important files found on Linux systems. The fstab file is also sometimes referred to as a file systems table or /etc/fstab. It is meant to list all the available disk partitions and disks. It also includes information about how these disks and partitions are inte...

In his keynote session at Cloud Computing Expo in New York City, Dave Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems, investigated how enterprise IT operations can take advantage of this emerging world of many clouds to achieve th...

Jaspersoft has moved on to version 3.5, making it the industry's first multi-tenanted SaaS-enabled Business Intelligence platform. It's also got enhanced user and data scalability and new integrated web-based analysis capabilities that don't need a data warehouse or OLAP server. Hence ...

IntelePeer Inc., has announced an agreement to integrate powerful Voice 2.0 and rich media features into business applications with Tekmark Global Solutions LLC. Using the IntelePeer AppworX open communications platform, IntelePeer and Tekmark are co-developing applications based on Mi...

In the end, it’s all about money – how much do you spend for just maintaining the status quo, and how much on supporting truly differentiating business initiatives. This drives an imperative for dynamic infrastructures, increasing resource utilization and reducing labor costs, and for ...

Adobe and Facebook today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free an...

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Unless there’s another one floating around out there in the ether, the secret Open Cloud Manifesto is supposed to be unveiled on Monday, March 30, according Reuven Cohen, Co-Founder & Chief Technologist of Toronto-based cloud platform start-up Enomaly Inc. Cohen claims that he and “sev...

In a 2-1 decision Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit pretty much sided with the Patent and Trademark Office and overturned a summary judgment that the agency overstepped its authority when it presumed to change its rules a couple of years ago. The new rules are sa...

TomTom, the Dutch GPS player that Microsoft sued a couple of weeks ago for patent infringement specifically charging its Linux kernel with offending, has not only countersued, it’s lining up allies in a move that practically guarantees a bloody fight. It’s joined the IBM-inspired Linux...

The current economic situation has created a difficult time for business, but some industries continue to do well and pose significant opportunities. In IT also some technologies which help industries to drive efficiencies and profitability like Unified Communications, Virtualization a...

Intel has informed AMD that it’s in breach of their 2001 patent cross-license and if the companies don’t come to terms in the next 60 days it’s going terminate the license and AMD won’t be able to make x86 chips anymore ­at least not legally.

DigiTimes says GlobalFoundaries CEO Doug Grose, the head of the newfangled AMD-Abu Dhabi joint venture, the one-time AMD plants, is on his way to Taiwan to look for GPU and chipset business and bearing discounts. The paper says it’s “looking to cut into the supply chain of Taiwan’s sem...

Microsoft and the Creative Commons turned up at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and released an Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 so authors can add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. On...

A week after resigning as CTO of the District of Columbia to become the first chief information officer of the United States of America under the Obama administration, the FBI raided the old D.C. offices of Delhi-born Vivek Kundra and arrested a couple of the guys who used to work for ...

RightScale has announced full support for the popular Ubuntu distribution as part of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The Ubuntu software development community can now use RightScale to deploy and manage cloud applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with compl...

With a global recession looming, software development managers are being asked to slash resource budgets in 2009 while maintaining schedules. When you need to deliver more features with fewer coding resources, there is only one answer: hybrid development. Hybrid software development in...

What with everybody dancing a few steps with everybody else – virtually speaking – Novell struck a broad collaboration pact with VMware so ISVs can build fully supported SUSE-based virtual appliances on VMware ESX. It's trying to entice VMware Studio-using ISV by offering them a free e...

Sun has lost the stickiness test. MySQL boss Marten Mickos, the operation’s former CEO and senior VP of Sun’s database group since its acquisition almost exactly one year ago, is following co-founder and MySQL’s original developer Monty Widinius out the door. Sun lost the open source d...

Smart Trade Technologies has announced that it signed an OEM agreement with EsperTech to embed their Esper event-stream and complex-event processing software in the smartTrade liquidity management system. Through this agreement, Smart Trade customers will have access to event-stream an...

Liferay has announced the 5.2 release of Liferay Portal Standard Edition. The open source solution integrates content management, collaboration, and social networking to help enterprises consolidate software investments. The latest release features enhanced performance and scalability ...