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Sep 19, 2007
Intalio Plans To Release BPM Tools As Open Source
The Redwood City, Calif., company said Tuesday it plans to offer the BPMS Community Edition under the Mozilla Public License starting in the first quarter of 2007. The suite includes an Eclipse-based business process design tool that supports the business process modeling notation (BPMN) standard. read more...
Sun's Open Source Java Moves Are Bold, Smart, and Limited
Sun also announced that the Java Enterprise Edition platform would be released under GPLv2 through their GlassFish project, which is Sun's own Java EE application server that more-or-less competes against application servers such as Red Hat's JBoss and IBM's WebSphere. GlassFish was already available as open source under Sun's CDDL license, and it's not clear that releasing it under GPL will help GlassFish grow into a full-service Java EE platform, but it certainly doesn't hurt. read more...
Open Source ist reif für ECM
DMC startet eine Vortragsreihe zum Thema Enterprise Content Management. Am 12. Juli 2007 um 15.00 Uhr startet die dmc digital media center GmbH eine Vortragsreihe zum Thema Enterprise Content Management (ECM). In der Vortragsreihe „Open Source ist reif für ECM“ möchte dmc gemeinsam mit Experten aus Recht und Wirtschaft, sowie ECM-Lösungspartnern von dmc die neuen und innovativen Lösungswege vorstellen, die sowohl Open Source als auch Best Practice aus der kommerziellen Welt einschließen. dmc möchte Potenziale aufzeigen und gleichzeitig den rechtlichen Rahmen beleuchten. Das Thema der ersten Veranstaltung am 12.Juli lautet: „Der pragmatische Ansatz von ECM & Co. Nutzen Sie die neuen Möglichkeiten für Ihren geschäftlichen Erfolg und erfüllen Sie zudem die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen.“ Heiko Robert, director enterprise content management von dmc referiert zu den neuen Ansätzen im ECM mit Standards und offenen Architekturen. Dr. Bernd Wild, Geschäftsführer der intarsys consulting GmbH wird über „Elektronische Signaturen - Auf dem Weg zu medienbruchfreien Geschäftsprozessen“ sprechen und schließlich wird Stefan Wittjen, Geschäftsführer der Röver Consulting GmbH, den Teilnehmern Informationen zum rechtsicheren Umgang mit digitalen Doku-menten, zum Nutzen und der Nutzung elektronischer Signaturen und zur revisionssicheren Archivierung präsentieren. read more...
IBM May Open Source Jazz Collaboration Software
IBM Corp.'s Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company. "We might think about open-sourcing some of the very lowest layers (of the framework) so that the APIs (application programming interfaces) are available, and people could build on the kernel," said Scott Rich, a member of the management committee of the Jazz project, on the sidelines of a Rational Software conference in Bangalore, India on Thursday. One benefit of this strategy is to make the Jazz framework "more pervasive," he added. read more...
Microsoft Revises Anti-Linux Campaign
Microsoft Corp. has replaced its controversial anti-Linux "Get the Facts" Web site with a kinder, gentler site explaining how its Windows Server operating system compares to open-source Linux as well as other competitive OSes. The new WindowsServer/Compare Web site provides information about how Windows Server stacks up in total cost of ownership, reliability, security, manageability and interoperability with Linux, Unix and IBM Corp.'s mainframe architecture read more...
Open Arms for Open-Source News
A small California newspaper has undertaken a first-of-its-kind experiment in participatory journalism in which nearly all the content published in a regularly updated online edition and a weekly print edition is submitted by community members. It's all free. Following in the footsteps of past community journalism projects that sought to give individuals a voice in local news, as well as the growing trend in news-like blogs, The Northwest Voice is giving residents of Bakersfield's northwest neighborhoods near-total control of content. An editor is on hand largely to ensure that articles, letters and photographs submitted through the publication's Web-based content-management system adhere to a minimal set of standards, and to choose the best submissions for inclusion in the print edition. read more...
EU court upholds Microsoft anti-trust decision
A European Union court on Monday dismissed Microsoft's appeal against the 2004 ruling which found the company had abused its dominant market position to score over rivals. Microsoft's lawyers failed to impress the European Court of First Instance, which not only dismissed the case but also rejected the appeal against the €497 million ($690 million) fine imposed on the company. Update: Red Hat has issued a statement about the Commission's ruling. read more...
IBM Takes on Microsoft With OpenOffice Suite
IBM Corp. is to offer the world a free word processor, spreadsheet and presentation program in yet another bid to upset the dominance of Microsoft's Office suite. ADVERTISEMENT The move sounds ambitious, but Microsoft is unlikely to be trembling in fear just yet-- Lotus Symphony, as it will be known, is really just a re-packaging of the OpenOffice suite that has taken only fringe market share from Microsoft, since being taken under the wing of Sun seven years ago. IBM says it will contribute 35 programmers to the Symphony-cum-OpenOffice development effort, in a bid to spark new interest in a software suite that can trace its ancestry back to a suite called StarOffice, once owned by obscure German company, Star. IBM hopes its much larger corporate presence will generate more success this time. read more...
A first run with IBM's free office suite
Computer giant IBM yesterday released a free office suite for Windows and Linux machines called Lotus Symphony. Symphony is available from the Symphony website which requires users to register and be logged on to download the software. Symphony is made up of three applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and ODF (Open Document Format), and can also output content in PDF format. Symphony is available for both Linux and Windows platform and houses much of the same technology as IBM's enterprise-grade Lotus Notes 8 product. read more...
Govt OSS migration will need skills
Governments looking to migrate to open source software (OSS) will need to ramp up their internal skills base, according to Gartner analyst Andrea Di Maio. Di Maio, speaking at the Gartner Symposium in Cape Town on Tuesday, also said that migrating to open source software should be done in a phased manner, moving entire groups of users to open source software at a time. Di Maio said that over time organisations had become reliant on external skills in their operations as they moved through packaged software and application service providers. Moving to open source software would reverse that trend, he said. read more...
