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MySQL Journal on Ulitzer 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. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a guy with a collector’s temperament not given to letting things that belong to him go, has said he wants to keep MySQL and has claimed to be watching Sun’s revenue plunge by $100 million a month while he waits for the EC to finish its probe, a exercise that could take well into January. MySQL isn’t supposed to be why Larry shocked everybody and offered $7.4 billion for poor down-on-its-heels Sun back on April 20. Sticking it to IBM was probably something he relished and wi... (more)

Comm100 Attains Gold Certified Partner Status in Microsoft Partner Network

VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/10 -- Comm100 Network Corporation, the provider of open source and free hosted customer support software, today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Network with a competency in Mobility Solutions and Custom Development Solutions (Web Development), recognizing Comm100's expertise and impact in the technology marketplace. Comm100 provides open source and free hosted customer support software for small and midsized businesses. Comm100 focuses on developing and managing fully integrated customer support and communication solutions to enable businesses to communicate with their customers effectively through multiple integrated communication channels, including live chat, forum, knowledge base, email case management and ticket system. "We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certifi... (more)

SMG Research Reveals DBA Tools Not Effective for Managing Database Change

New research from Simon Management Group reveals that despite the high percentage of companies who use DBA tools, a majority of companies still struggle with database change and configuration management issues that impede the first-time success rate of business-critical application deployments. Commissioned by Datical, Inc., the study examines the views of application development and deployment professionals in large organizations with $100 million or greater in IT department spending. The companies surveyed have similar characteristics including a large number of applications in use, frequent database application change requests per week, adoption of agile development methodologies, and greater variation in the skills of their SQL programmers. Findings from the analysis of nearly 100 verified responses point to a number of key issues: Multiple databases, platforms... (more)

Liberty Alliance Announces 'Open Source Identity for the Web 2.0 Era' Webcast November 29

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the public webcast "Open Source Identity for the Web 2.0 Era" taking place on Wednesday, November 29 at 8:00am US PST. This event is open to anyone interested in learning about open source single sign-on identity systems and how the interoperability, privacy and security capabilities of SAML 2.0 can benefit many of today's Web 2.0 applications. The webcast presentation will be hosted by Pat Patterson, member of the Liberty Alliance Technology Expert Group and federation architect with Sun Microsystems. The event will provide an overview of the open source projects in and around identity with specific focus on OpenSSO, an open source project that implements identity feder... (more)

MapGuide Open Source and Autodesk Mark Record Downloads in First Year

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. today marked the one-year anniversary of the release of its MapGuide Open Source product and its feature data objects (FDO) source code. Over the past year, this web-mapping platform has gained traction among the geospatial developer community, which is now incorporating it into new and innovative spatial applications. The MapGuide Open Source community currently numbers over 600 members, and the source code has been downloaded more than 23,000 times. Additionally, the FDO source code has been downloaded 3000 times. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050415/SFF034LOGO ) As part of its mission to deliver advanced technologies that help customers realize ideas, Autodesk released MapGuide Open Source and its FDO data access technology to the open source development community in November 2005. As more ... (more)

Coversant Open Sources Software Development Kits Available for Developers to Build XMPP-Based Collaborative Messaging Applications

SACRAMENTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/28/06 -- Coversant, Inc., the first provider of inter-enterprise Collaborative Messaging software, today announced that a complete suite of open source software developer kits (SDKs) for building custom XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) based collaboration applications are available at Coversant's new online Developer Community at http://developers.coversant.net The developer community provides the latest source code and documentation as well as a forum for support and the exchange of new ideas. With more than two million users, Coversant is showing expansive growth of its XMPP solutions and its commitment to software developers. The open source SDKs, together known as the SoapBox Studio™, are freely available for the x86, x64, and IA64 platforms with support for the following .NET frameworks: -- Microsoft .NE... (more)

OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative Gains Another Heavy Hitter

BEAVERTON, Ore., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux(R) and open source software, today announced that Chinese handset manufacturer Datang Mobile will join OSDL as an active member of the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI). Datang Mobile is a leading communication equipment provider in China and in markets around the globe. "Linux is being deployed on mobile devices shipped in China at a much higher rate than in any other region," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "Datang Mobile will bring increased representation from one of the most active and dynamic markets in the world, and its technical and business expertise will accelerate the adoption of Mobile Linux." The Diffusion Group predicts that by 2010, mobile Linux handset market share will grow to 26.6 percent, eclipsing Symbia... (more)

Preferred Consulting, Inc. and SpikeSource Team to Deliver Business-Ready Open Source Solutions to Government Agencies

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred Consulting, Inc. today announced that it has joined the SpikeSource Solution Provider program to deliver business-ready open source applications to local, state and federal government agencies. Preferred Consulting will offer services for open source solutions based on the Spike(TM) Ignite platform which meet the requirements of companies that want enterprise-class solutions at a lower installed cost. "This is a very strategic decision for us," noted Wavell Watson, President and founder of Preferred Consulting. "Our customers are increasingly demanding low cost business solutions with faster time to deployment. Our services -- along with the complete range of SpikeSource solutions -- will help our customers secure a competitive advantage at a cost that won't require additional financing." Preferred Consulting will deli... (more)

Jive Software Launches IgniteRealtime.org Website in Response to Explosive Community Support for Its Open Source EIM Products

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Software has responded to the amazing popularity of Wildfire, its Open Source Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) server, and Spark, its Open Source EIM client with the launch of IgniteRealtime.org today. IgniteRealtime.org is a community website intended to increase support of Jive Software's active developer and user communities. IgniteRealtime.org builds upon the tremendous success of Jive Software's Open Source EIM products by evolving the website from a source code destination to the single biggest XMPP-centric product community on the Web, with a goal of driving the adoption of XMPP as the primary standard for open, real-time communications. "We are deeply committed to our Open Source community, and our continued success depends on the unified involvement of our users, developers and enthusiasts," said Sam Lawrence, J... (more)

Novell Ships OpenSUSE 10.2

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE(TM) 10.2, the newest version of Novell's award- winning community Linux* distribution. OpenSUSE 10.2 was created in full partnership with the open source community, and it provides everything a user needs to get started with Linux. Available for free download or in a convenient packaged retail edition, openSUSE 10.2 delivers rich, reliable and secure home computing at an affordable price. "The openSUSE project promotes the use of Linux everywhere, and its resulting offering -- openSUSE 10.2 -- is the world's most usable Linux distribution," said Carlos Montero-Luque, Novell(R) vice president of product management for Open Platform Solutions. "For new or experienced Linux users, for Linux hackers or application developers, openSUSE contains the technical components and open c... (more)

Jim Zemlin Named Executive Director of New Linux Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO and BEAVERTON, Ore., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the next phase of growth for Linux, today announced that Jim Zemlin will lead the organization as executive director. Zemlin is the former executive director of the Free Standards Group, which today announced a plan of merger with the Open Source Development Labs to form The Linux Foundation. As executive director of The Linux Foundation, Zemlin will unify the world's leading Linux and open source organizations, businesses and communities to promote, protect and standardize Linux. The Linux Foundation has been formed to aggressively accelerate the growth of Linux by providing the services needed to compete effectively with closed platforms. Prior to serving as executive director at the FSG, Zemlin served as vice president of marketing for ... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...