October
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Oct 14, 2009
How the U.S. funds open source abroad
President Obama gets a lot of credit for his pro-open source policies, but the United States has been funding open source well before he took office. read more...
GroundWork Open Source Closes $5 Million in Series D Financing Led By Canaan Partners
GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (GWOS, www.gwos.com), the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, today announced it has secured $5 million in its fourth round of venture capital financing. read more...
Oct 13, 2009
GroundWork Cuts Price on Open Source Systems Management Tool
Organizations looking for the type of functionality one would get with a "big four" systems management tool, but don't want to pay a premium price, may want to check out the new pricing scheme laid out last week by GroundWork Open Source, which develops commercial open source software for managing heterogeneous computing environments. read more...
Oracle Extends Commitment to Java and Open Source Developer Communities
Providing continued proof that Oracle is the platform of choice for Java developers, Oracle today announced developers are rapidly adopting Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. read more...
Oct 12, 2009
Linux & Open Source: Open-Source and Mac Alternatives to Windows 7
Although Microsoft is gearing everyone up for the release of Windows 7 on Oct. 22, there are other solutions out there that might satisfy a user's desire for a new operating system without the additional cost. read more...
Microsoft to offer free Starter Edition of Office 2010
Microsoft has revealed plans to allow PC vendors to ship a free, advertising-supported edition of Office 2010. There will also be a mechanism for trialling Office 2010 alongside earlier versions. read more...
Oct 09, 2009
OSS seen as viable alternative
Recent IDC studies show that more organisations in the region have started to evaluate open source software (OSS) as a viable business alternative in bids to reduce costs. read more...
Open source network management and monitoring system NetXMS
NetXMS is an enterprise grade multi-platform open source network management and monitoring system. It provides event management, performance monitoring, alerting, reporting and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure — from network devices to business application layer. read more...
Oct 08, 2009
Open Source UTMs
This time instead of testing commercial UTM solutions we benchmarked three popular Open Source and free ones. Here's how we tested them. read more...
Lower Cost Alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint Aimed at Education, Public Sector, SMBs
Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, announced the availability of Open-Xchange Server Edition for Univention Corporate Server (OX SE for UCS) as a lower cost alternative to Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange and Sharepoint for educational institutions, public administrations and small- and medium-size businesses. read more...
Oct 07, 2009
Welcome to the Era of Open Energy Information
The development of the smart grid is really about unleashing and managing a whole lot of data about energy — where, when, how and how much energy is produced, consumed and moved around the network. read more...
Global Open Source Collaboration Software Provider eXo Platform Expands to North America with First U.S. Office
In response to growing demand in North America, eXo Platform today opened its first U.S. office and announced a Board of Advisors stacked with software industry luminaries. read more...
Oct 06, 2009
Trinity's Humanitarian Open Source Software Project Snags Major Grant
The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS), a collaborative three-college program that creates free open source software (FOSS) for the common good, received a major vote of confidence with the awarding of an $800,000, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education program. read more...
No Longer an IBM Partner, Randr Navigates the Open Source Track
You don't need an expert economist to see that the AS/400 midrange market is not what it used to be. A once thriving market, it's now maybe a tenth of its previous size, and more resellers and software vendors leave every day. One of the former IBM AS/400 business partners that has evolved its business plan to suit the times is Randr, Inc., which has made a clean break with the traditional midrange, and moved to open source software. read more...
Oct 05, 2009
The French National Navy chose the Codendi open-source solution to improve its software processes
Code-Opus, the official reseller of Codendi accredited by Xerox, gains the public contract to provide the Software Applications Centre of the French National Navy with a software forge. read more...
Microsoft and the open sourcing of the Web
Microsoft dominates enterprise IT and likely will for a long time. But the software giant is struggling to match the nimble pace of open source on the Web, a pace being set by Google and others. read more...
Oct 02, 2009
ALRC going for open source CMS website
Agency puts out tender stating its preference for open source content managment system and technologies read more...
Objectivity, Inc. Offers Free, Open Source Applications for the First Time
Objectivity, Inc. announced today the launch of the Objectivity Developer Network (ODN) (www.devnet.objectivity.com?source=pr&campaign=ODN), a comprehensive website that includes free open source applications, code snippets, tutorials, and a community forum (http://devnet.objectivity.com/forum/?source=pr&campaign=ODN) designed to accelerate the application development cycle for Objectivity/DB users. read more...
Oct 01, 2009
On the merits of open source software
When I started drumming up support for open source software (OSS) during last year’s UNB Student Union election, the reaction I received from most students was a veritable “huh?” of confusion. My answer was usually “Firefox” and the person showed a glimmer of understanding. read more...
Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in October 2009
Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates. read more...
