Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Thomas Erl, a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert and the world's top-selling SOA author, has contributed IP in the area of service modeling to Red Hat.
Read more »Leading SOA Expert Contributes Service Modeling IP to Red Hat to Accelerate SOA Adoption
Grid pays handsome dividends for HR firm
The mainframe is alive and well at the global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates, but it’s getting quite a bit of help these days from a Linux-based grid computing platform.
Read more »Lafarge cements use of Linux firewall
Lafarge Africa have awarded a contract to Jeshurun Consulting to deploy the Linux-based Smoothwall firewall solution at its various sites through out Africa.
Read more »Why Microsoft Should buy Red Hat
"What's more, Red Hat could help Microsoft gain OSS street cred almost instantly. To me, this would easily become Red Hat's most important contribution to the software industry." Isn't that a fabulous quote? Seriously, read the rest of the article, it's... no, words fail me. Of course, the best bits are the outraged comments at the end...
Read more »A Presidential Address
As you may already know, at this year's aKademy the term came up for our past KDE e.V. president, Eva. She served for years on the board and in my opinion did a great job as president. Filling her void was the matter of quite a bit of discussion and I personally thought hard about whether or not to take on the position for days prior to going to Glasgow.
Read more »Open Source Business Resource launches
Last week the Talent First Network announced the launch of a new monthly publication geared toward greater understanding and dialogue between businesses and open source software projects.
Read more »HP to Buy Linux Thin Client Desktop Company
Hewlett-Packard announced on July 23 that it would be buying Neoware, a provider of Linux, Windows CE and Windows XPe OS thin client computing and virtualization solutions. HP will be paying $16.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash) of approximately $214 million on a fully diluted basis for the company.
Read more »Zenoss Aims For The Enterprise
Not that long ago, open source systems monitoring was all about Nagios, a leading monitoring tool. The field has widened considerably in recent years and today expands even further with the released of Zenoss Enterprise Edition 2.0.
Read more »Intel's Mobile Linux Initiative Misses Vendor Mark?
Intel (Quote) is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. The site has already posted an initial list of projects that it will undertake, including key components such as the kernel, browser, power management framework and a user interface framework.
Read more »Study: Red Hat Benefiting from MS-Novell Deal Fallout
A global survey of open-source enterprise users of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in November 2006.
Read more »HP to buy Linux thin client desktop company
Hewlett-Packard announced on July 23 that it would be buying Neoware, a provider of Linux, Windows CE and Windows XPe OS thin client computing and virtualization solutions. HP will be paying $16.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash) of approximately $214 million on a fully diluted basis for the company.
Read more »Alfresco study: Enterprises evaluate on Windows, deploy on (Red Hat) Linux
Open source content management company Alfresco Software, Inc., today announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise.
Read more »Alfresco: Competing in the Enterprise
John Newton, CTO and chairman of open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, is certainly no stranger to the industry.
Read more »German T3N Magazine for Open Source & Web, releases five current TYPO3 Articles in English
The topics include offshore development and international partnerships, details about the long-awaited TYPO3 Commerce extension and first-hand insights into the development of TYPO3 5.0. Additionally, you get the chance to read the quarterly TYPO3 association activity report and an article by Kasper about his farewell from TYPO3 development.
Read more »Facebook Snaps Up Firefox Founders' Startup Parakey
Facebook made its first acquisition, picking up Parakey, a startup founded by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, a pair who created Mozilla's Firefox browser. Although specifics about what exactly Parakey is are few, it is described as a way to bridge the gap between desktop applications and Web functions.
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