Industry News

Oracle Faces Growing Price for MySQL

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

The irony is that Oracle has advanced MySQL, lost money in the process, and helped its competitors - all at the same time. When Oracle buys Sun and controls MySQL the gift (other than to Microsoft SQL Server) keeps on giving as the existential threat to RDBs is managed by Redwood Shores. Oracle has uncharacteristically found itself maneuvered (by its own actions).

Extending SOA to Cloud Computing

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the launch of the WSO2 Cloud Platform. Available today, the new WSO2 Cloud Platform features a family of WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines; WSO2 Cloud Connectors for enabling fast, secure cloud services; and the multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. All WSO2 Cloud Platform services are based on open software standards, and they support all applicable interoperable protocols, as well as relevant open data standards. Additionally, they allow users to take complete control of their data, ensuring that enterprises can protect and preserve their information.

Thunderbird Connector for Open-Xchange Now Available

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Now, the open source Mozilla Thunderbird client software can be used with Open-Xchange collaboration software. The "Community OXtender for Thunderbird" software connector gives users full access to appointments and contacts stored in the Open-Xchange Server and enables them to use Thunderbird as a rich PIM (Personal Information Management) client to access data online and offline. The software packages and documentation are available at www.open-xchange.com/oxpedia#ThunderbirdOXtender.

Morph Labs Announces Private Cloud Trial Kit

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST

Morph Labs, a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing technology, today announced an introductory trial of the Morph CloudServer, an open, standards-based server IT organizations can use to rapidly model and evaluate their cloud implementations. A miniature "Cloud Environment in a Box," the system will include the Morph Cloud Controller, a complete cloud management and provisioning platform that leverages the Amazon AWS API, and a Virtual Machine Server pre-configured with 10 VMs. Evaluators who require a bigger environment can add a VM server, as needed. Morph Labs also offers an option for a fully hosted starter kit trial.

PrismTech and Nextel to Provide Real-Time Data and Messaging Solutions

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:19:00 EST

PrismTech is joining forces with Nextel Engineering Systems to deliver much-needed, highly-reliable and Real-Time data management solutions. As part of its software and services offerings, Nextel Engineering will now deliver and support PrismTech’s best-in-class suite of middleware products.

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

Latest Open-Xchange Makes Webmail and Social Network Integration Easy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

The newest release of Open-Xchange builds on a consistent theme as its delivers more integration with other webmail programs like Gmail, as well as the ability to incorporate contact information – the latest includes the Yahoo address book. Open-Xchange today announced enhancements that vastly simplify the aggregation of e-mail and contact information - personal and business - giving users access to their data anywhere, anytime and with any device.

Berlin Is The Place To Be in February - at iStrategy 2010

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

With ever-changing media consumption patterns and the rapid growth of mobile web, social networking, behavioral targeting, vodcasting, email marketing, and viral marketing it can be tough for any company to stay ahead of the competition. Which is why the organizers of iStrategy 2010, to be held 9-10th February 2010 in Berlin, have created the event as an annual gathering for Business, Marketing, Business Development, IT and Creative professionals involved in all aspects of online media and strategic management positions.

Pay-as-You-Grow Pricing for Citrix NetScaler

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:15:00 EST

Citrix Systems today announced the groundbreaking new “Pay-as-You-Grow” pricing for its Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances. Most networking systems require expensive hardware replacements to expand capacity and functionality, which often forces customers to over provision and pay for more than they need at any given time. The new Pay-as-You-Grow pricing from Citrix breaks this dependency, enabling customers to buy only what they need today, knowing they can easily scale up their network as demand grows with a simple software license upgrade.

Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST

Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here Los Angeles, Microsoft announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that they are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license, which is already being used by the community within the embedded space. The .NET Micro Framework, [...] Related posts:

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SugarCRM on Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:45:00 EST

SugarCRM today announced that it will offer its CRM applications on Windows Azure to enable its customers and value-added resellers to benefit from the real-time scalability, high availability and on-demand infrastructure of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud platform for web applications and services. “With Windows Azure, Microsoft has built a true cloud computing platform going well beyond the simple hosted infrastructure that most service providers offer today,” said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM. “Windows Azure enables SugarCRM value-added resellers to create and deploy unique solutions for customers around the globe. This new service is another key component of the Sugar Open Cloud, the SugarCRM cloud strategy for delivering simple, affordable CRM anywhere based on customer need. Sugar on Windows Azure combines the most user-friendly CRM application on the market with a highly available, scalable and secure cloud computing platform.”

Orchestra Contributing to Future of E-Commerce

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:30:00 EST

It is one thing to use open source software and evangelize its capabilities to a marketplace. It is quite another to actually attempt to contribute to that software. Orchestra is now investing in contributing to open source projects that benefit the small and midsize business market.

New Members Elected to Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:02:00 EST

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the results of its 2009 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election, which was held at the Japan Linux Symposium in Tokyo.

Citrix Makes Virtual Desktops Enterprise Ready

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:00 EST

Citrix Systems today launched the new Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program to further accelerate large-scale enterprise virtual desktop deployments with Citrix® XenDesktop™. The Citrix Ready Open Desktop Virtualization program includes more than 10,000 products from over 200 vendors that have been validated as ready to deploy in production environments with the recently launched XenDesktop 4. The Open Desktop Virtualization program helps make virtual desktops a safe choice for enterprise-wide deployment by eliminating the guess work and ensuring customers that XenDesktop 4 has been tested to work with the software, hardware and services they already uses in their IT environments today. Products that have been verified to work with XenDesktop 4 include thousands of applications, servers, storage systems, backup solutions, client devices, printers, desktop peripherals, security products, desktop management software and systems management solutions.

Intalio Announces Jetty 7

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

Intalio, the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the immediate availability of Jetty 7, the leading lightweight open source Java application server. The new release includes features and capabilities that extend Jetty's reach into mission-critical environments, as well as support its deployment on top of cloud computing platforms.

DDN Plans to Roll Out Massive Digital Signage Network with 7-11

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:15:00 EST

This is a deal that has been around for all of this year, and I know the NYC-based guy charged with pulling the technical pieces together. He has been looking at software platforms for months and separating contenders from pretenders based on the criteria he's established. To my knowledge no decision has been made on technology, but if you are not yet aware of it, it is probably pretty pretty darn late to try to get in on it.

3Leaf Makes x86 Boxes into SMP Cloudware

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

3Leaf Systems, the well-funded start-up, dropped its fig leaf Tuesday and took a running jump into the pools of memory, I/O and cache that it can construct and deconstruct at will based on the application, creating scale-up shared-memory SMP systems the likes of mainframes, proprietary mid-range machines and pricey RISC-based Unix boxes out of racks of cheap and dirty two-socket scale-out x64 systems.

Funambol Acquires Zapatec

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:01:00 EST

Funambol, a provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today announced it has acquired Zapatec, Inc., a leader of AJAX web 2.0 frameworks. The acquisition enables Funambol to uniquely address the industry pervasive device fragmentation challenge that plagues developers and requires building native apps for too many platforms. The combination of Funambol's open source mobile sync and push server, with Zapatec's AJAX web 2.0 technology, will foster a new generation of open, rich mobile browser native apps for billions of smart- and feature phones. This provides the best of both worlds -- rich mobile web native apps that 'sync and push' and that work on all devices.

SOASTA Adds Support for Open Source Testing from the Cloud at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST

SOASTA, a provider cloud testing, today announced that performance engineers can now build web application tests in Apache JMeter, the most popular open source load testing tool, and run them in SOASTA's Global Test Cloud. Deploying JMeter tests to the Cloud has been a complex, time-consuming and manual process. SOASTA now makes it dramatically easier for the JMeter community to create, deploy, execute and analyze load and performance tests in the Cloud.

Yahoo! Announces Open Source Distribution of Traffic Server at Cloud Expo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, took its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing today, debuting an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing, and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. It follows the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop as another example of Yahoo!’s unprecedented commitment to open source cloud computing initiatives. Yahoo! has donated the Traffic Server code to The Apache Software Foundation through the Apache Incubator, and intends to build a robust community of developers around the open source Traffic Server. Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, will be discussing the new technology tomorrow at the Cloud Computing Expo.

Yahoo! Announces Open-Source Cloud Server

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST

“We see Traffic Server as an essential building block for cloud computing, and at Yahoo!, it’s integral to our edge services, on-line storage and cloud serving. The open-sourcing of Traffic Server is representative of our company-wide commitment to sharing technology innovation with the open source community, as well as our broader intention to continue to open source our cloud technologies as they mature,” said Shugar. “By releasing an open source version of Traffic Server, we are sharing a core piece of technology with the open-source world, while also signaling our intention to build a community of developers to take it to the next level.”

Ruiz Out in Insider Trading Scandal

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:45:00 EST

Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the guy who spun out AMD’s plants into a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi and then became chairman of that company when it was formed in March, has stepped down after being identified as one of the tipsters leaking material inside information to hedge funds that traded on it.

4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Starts Today

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:10:00 EST

A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs in the Cloud to Yahoo! Cloud @ Internet Scale.

Canonical Offers Free Cloudware

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 EDT

Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, code named Karmic Koala, became generally available for free download Thursday. That’s the stuff that introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a k a Eucalyptus Software’s open source software, as a fully supported technology. The widgetry is based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2 and, as previously reported, lets businesses build private clouds.

‘The Crash is Behind Us’: Peddie

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Third-quarter shipments of graphics processors were up 21.2% sequentially and Q2 was a strong quarter so graphics maven Jon Peddie feels safe in predicting a Merry Christmas for PCs and the industry. AMD showed the biggest jump in quarter-to-quarter growth at 30% followed by Intel at 21%. Intel shipped the most parts at 63 million, over twice as many as its nearest competitor Nvidia. "A total of 119.45 million units were shipped in the third quarter, exceeding the record 111 million units that shipped in Q3 2008," Peddie said. "The crash of fall 2008 is now behind us."

Oracle+MySQL Opponents Take to the Barricades

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:45:00 EDT

Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL has put the Oracle-Sun merger in limbo – should force Oracle to spit it out to another company.

Zend Server Gets a Plane-like ‘Black Box’

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:45:00 EDT

Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has hung Zend Server 5.0, which support IBM i as well as Linux and Windows, out for public beta. A production release should be out by the end of the year. The widgetry is a major new version of the company’s enterprise-ready PHP application server, including Code Tracing, which is supposed to slash problem resolution time by up to 50%.

Convio Expands Open Platform

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Convio today announced expansion of its Open Platform which is helping nonprofit organizations tap the power of technology and the Internet to better reach, engage and move people to support their cause. The company is introducing Convio Web Services, a new set of standard interfaces for building client applications that retrieve and synchronize data with Convio. The company has also delivered several new APIs and launched a new developer version of its Open website which offers improved documentation as well as access to more than 60 APIs (application programming interfaces) at www.open.convio.com.

10th Circuit Hands SCO a Jury Trial

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:00 EDT

It’s been six years, tens of millions of dollars and untold legal delays since SCO first sued IBM for poaching Unix code and putting it in Linux, and without the starch in its collar that its ousted CEO Darl McBride evidently supplied it sounds like it’s folding like a basket of limp washing.

SpringSource Moving to Spring 3.0

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT

VMware’s recent SpringSource acquisition, the Java widgetry folk, is moving to Spring 3.0, a major release of its vaunted Java development framework for building web and service-based applications. It announced a feature-complete release candidate Monday and expects to go to GA soon.

Citizen Developers Will Build New Business Apps

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:33:00 EDT

By 2014, citizen developers will build at least 25 percent of new business applications, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that this advance should both enable end users and free up IT resources. However, analysts warned that IT organizations that fail to capitalize on the opportunities that citizen development presents will find themselves unable to respond to rapidly changing market forces and customer preferences. Gartner defines a citizen developer as a user operating outside of the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who creates new business applications for consumption by others either from scratch or by composition.

VMware Coming Back Along with the Economy

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:45:00 EDT

VMware, the acknowledged leader in virtualization, came in with third-quarter revenues of $490 million, up 4% year-over-year, beating estimates of around $474 million. The recession has really crimped VMware’s style. This time last year its revenues were up 32% year-over-year to $472 million and that wasn’t even its personal best. However, showing

Open-Xchange and SugarCRM Partner to Combine Open Source Collaboration

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EDT

Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software. The integration enables users to gather and aggregate data from their social network profiles (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing), as well as their SugarCRM application, to store it in an Open-Xchange address book as well as share it with others. This information can then be moved to the SugarCRM application. In addition, the SugarCRM data imported into Open-Xchange can be accessed from smartphones, or published to the Internet.

Fired SCO CEO Fires Back

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:15:00 EDT

The real trustee, McBride says, is a Blank Rome lawyer called Bonnie Fatell who couldn't be bothered calling Cerberus - you know, Cerberus, as in Chrysler Financial and General Motors Financial (GMAC) - which was willing to put $25 million into SCO and get it out of hock because Cerberus has backed McBride before. It gave McBride $50 million back in 1997 to roll up a bunch if Internet companies like, oh, Razorfish (nee Avenue A | Razorfish), MarchFirst (nee US Web) and Scient and that was then sold to, oh, aQuantive, which was then sold to, oh, Microsoft for, oh, $6 billion, Redmond's biggest acquisition to date.

LynuxWorks Releases Latest LynxOS-178 Support for AppliedMicro Boards

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT

LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced the availability of its board support package (BSP) for two additional motherboards from Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC), a global leader in embedded processing solutions.

MontaVista Announces Support for Next-Generation LTE

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:24:00 EDT

MontaVista Software has announced the next release of their Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) Linux with over 30 different Linux Support Packages (LSP’s) available immediately. CGE 5.1 adds support for next generation 4G wireless networks including LTE and WiMAX, and includes full integration of the OpenSAF high availability middleware consistent with Service Availability Forum specifications. In addition, MontaVista becomes the first commercial Linux vendor to offer virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) capabilities for secure wireless networks. CGE 5.1 remains the only carrier grade Linux to be compliant with Carrier Grade Linux, IPv6, and Linux Standard Base certifications.

AMD Fools the Pundits, While Google & IBM Pull Their Weight

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:45:00 EDT

AMD was supposed to lose 42 cents in the third quarter on sales of $1.26 billion according to the smart money on Wall Street. Instead it up and came in Thursday with losses of only 18 cents a share on $1.396 billion in revenue. Now as nice as that is for AMD, it’s even more important in what it says about the economic recovery, especially when paired with Intel’s consumer-driven homerun results the other day.

What If Darl McBride Gets Fired?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Darl McBride, the CEO of SCO and the industry’s favorite pariah, expects to get fired any minute now. He expects to get fired because he’s adamantly opposed to winding SCO down, laying off its people and settling the company’s litigation against Novell and IBM for chump change, which is the way he sees things going if the Chapter 11 trustee put in charge of SCO keeps going down the path he appears to be going down – despite the fact that the trustee told McBride when he got there that he thinks there is “significant value in the litigation.”

Avaya Uses Xen for Unified Communications

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Avaya, the telecommunications outfit spun out of Lucent in 2000 and taken private by Silver Lake Partners and TPG Capital for $8.2 billion in 2007, the company that’s buying Nortel’s Enterprise Division for $900 million, a move that will recombine Northern Electric and Western Electric, entities that haven’t been together since 1949, means to announce a virtualized unified communications solution today targeted at SMBs.

Android Makes Inroads

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT

AT&T is reportedly going to offer a Dell Android-based smartphone to U.S customers of its cellphone network next year, according to an unconfirmed piece in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters says the thing will be a version of the Marvell Technology-designed oPhone “prototype” Dell showed off in China some weeks back.