Ingres, Wipro team on open-source enterprise software
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The tie-up with Wipro is one of a number of systems-integration partnerships that Ingres plans with Indian outsourcers, an executive says.
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Two industry heavyweights have completed interoperability tests of a new technology designed to drive the convergence of voice, data, and video services over wireless and fixed infrastructure based on the Internet Protocol.
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The ActiveBPEL(R) engine is a Business Process Management (BPM) runtime environment for executing process definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 specifications. It is written in Java and   Active Endpoints today announced the availability of Milestone 1 of ActiveBPELÃÂ® Community Edition 5.0 Server. ActiveBPEL 5.0 represents the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s first release of an open-source implementation of both BPEL4People and WS-Human Task. These specifications allow human interactions to be included in services-based applications. By incorporating human tasks in composite applications, WS-Human Task and BPEL4People expand project teamsÃ¢â¬â¢ flexibility and efficiency in delivering standards-based solutions.  Features and availability Milestone 1 of ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server is available for download at http://www.active-endpoints.com/active-bpel-engine-overview.htm In addition to containing BPEL4People and WS-Human Task, ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server provides comprehensive support of the BPEL 1.1 specification and the WS-BPEL 2.0 standard. The server supports the full complement of BPEL activities including event handling, exception handling and scope/compensation management. The ActiveBPEL Community Edition 5.0 Server also includes advanced capabilities such as deployment packaging, process persistence, event notifications and console APIs. Developers and others interested in gaining early experience with the standards-based systems for creating services-based applications are invited to download the Milestone 1 release as an introduction to the full capabilities of a visual orchestration system.
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Open-source strategies are gathering steam in the mobile computing realm with companies like Wake3 and Funambol leveraging open source to bring iPhone-style browsing and e-mail to devices.During a meeting of the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley group at Microsoft offices in Mountain View, Calif. Monday evening, representatives of Wake3, Funambol, and Wind River noted the rise of open-source software on handsets. Wake3, for its part, is bringing the open-source WebKit mobile Web browser to Windows Mobile systems."WebKit for Windows Mobile really is, in essence, a kind of iPhone browsing for Windows Mobile," said Daniel Zucker, CTO of Wake3.He and an official at Wind River stressed the paradigm shift brought on by the iPhone. Instead of persons inquiring about what type of wireless service someone is using, they want to know if they have an iPhone, said Bill O'Such, Wind River director of engineering."It's really changed the balance," O'Such said."The iPhone opened up everyone's eyes. For the first time, you could really get true desktop browsing on a device," Zucker said.Wake3 plans a public beta release of WebKit for Windows Mobile in a few months. It will have full support for JavaScript, but Adobe Flash support is not expected. "You pretty much need a license," from Adobe, said Zucker. Instead, Wave3 will support technologies like SVG.At Funambol, the company specializes in push e-mail based on the Funambol open-source project, formerly known as Sync4j."We're actually seeing a tremendous surge of interest in open source in mobile," said Hal Steger, vice president of marketing at Funambol. The company has commercial and open-source versions of its software.Technologies like the iPhone and Google's Android along with the upcoming available wireless spectrum have spurred interest in open source for mobile systems, according to Steger. Also, prices are dropping for data plans for mobile phones."All things are kind of coming together," he said.Open source has helped Funambol get its software into the hands of more developers, who can test the software, fix it, and contribute code changes back to the community,? Steger said."If you've ever developed a mobile phone application and you're trying to address the mass market, there's a fundamental problem," he said. Half the world owns a cell phone but there are more than 1,000 models and many operating systems to support. But developers via open source can test the software and try it on their own phones."What we like to say is open source enables the largest mobile developer community to make any device work on any network. That's probably the biggest single advantage at least from our experience of open source to mobile," said Steger.To give developers incentives, Funambol pays developers $500 to $3,000 to work on projects, such as a Google Android client for Funambol or a Google Gmail connector. The company also pays $25 to persons to test their phone to see if Funambol works on it.Funambol differs from Android, which is Google's open-source stack for mobile devices, in that Android is for the client while Funambol is a server application, Steger said.Attendees pondered how Android would stack up against LiMo. The LiMo Foundation is intending to build a hardware-independent Linux OS for mobile devices."It's a hard question to answer," O'Such said. The market will decide, he said.? Wind River Systems is part of the Open Handset Alliance, which has a hand in developing Android, as well as a member of the LiMo Foundation.
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Computer Associates International on Monday kicked off its entry into open-source software with the release of its Ingres r3 database.
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The ground rules of the tests of Cisco and Avaya systems.
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer WiproÂ is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres, which will be marketed jointly by the two companies. The tie-up with Wipro is one of a number of systems-integration partnerships that Ingres plans with Indian outsourcers, said Vivek Bhatnagar, Ingres' country director for India, on Wednesday. Last month, the companyÂ struck a deal with Satyam Computer Services, an outsourcer in Hyderabad, India, to meet the systems integration needs of government, retail, and pharmaceutical customers around the world. It also has partnerships with outsourcers in the U.S. that have operations in India, like Cognizant Technology Solutions, an IT services company in Teaneck, New Jersey. Indian outsourcers can influence their customers worldwide to use Ingres' open-source software, said Bhatnagar. Ingres can also refer some of its clients to Indian outsourcers that have a practice around Ingres' technologies, he added. Ingres is also planning tie-ups with multinational service providers that have services delivery from India, Bhatnagar said. Wipro of Bangalore is setting up an open-source Center of Excellence around Ingres' technology, the company announced Wednesday. The company will focus on software in the areas of business intelligence, content management, data warehousing, and business process management, Bhatnagar said. Wipro brings in the business expertise, while Ingres will provide the technology platform on which Wipro will be able to provide an open-source alternative to its enterprise customers, he added. Wipro's Ingres open source practice will also focus on the Indian market, where open source adoption is accelerating, Wipro said.
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Software makers are partnering with third-party wireless applications providers to develop their mobile systems
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Application blade runs open source apps Interoperability and openness will be the keys to the network in the future, 3Com claimed, as it announced Linux-based blades for its 6000-series routers that will let them run third-party apps.â¦
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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TechWeb - Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
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Analysis Prospects bright in the Wi-Fi arena
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AeroScout lands new backers for its work with active radio frequency identification tags that make use of Wi-Fi networks.
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Forget Windows Mobile 6 -- these open-source handsets might succeed while Linux-on-the-desktop flounders. In Gadget Lab.
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Cisco Systems and Indian services company Wipro are collaborating to offer customers IT infrastructure services that combine Cisco&#39;s networking equipment with Wipro&#39;s infrastructure and managed services.The joint offerings will include Cisco&#39;s technology in areas such as application networking services, data centers, security, and telepresence for virtual meetings, the companies said. Cisco and Wipro will collaborate to develop applications that support specific virtual industry models such as health care, financial services, retail, real estate, and transportation.&quot;We have been doing the plumbing so far, which is still good business, but we will increasingly be looking at offering solutions to customers,&quot; John Chambers, Cisco&#39;s chairman and chief executive officer told reporters in Bangalore Wednesday. Cisco expects that the tie-up with Wipro will bring the company revenue of about $1 billion over the next three years.The collaboration will initially focus on the Indian, Middle East, and African markets.Cisco and Wipro are also setting up a Cisco Solution Centre at Wipro&#39;s campus in Bangalore, that will develop and showcase new services and applications around Cisco&#39;s technologies.Cisco also announced Tuesday that it was investing in a venture with another Indian services company, Satyam Computer Services that will focus on the development and deployment of healthcare applications.The collaborations with Wipro and Satyam are part of Cisco&#39;s strategy to use India as a base for developing technologies and business models for emerging markets, which are expected to grow faster than markets in developed countries.The company inaugurated on Tuesday its Globalisation Centre East campus, a new center that will work with partners in other emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, China, Asia, and Latin America on developing technologies for emerging markets.
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Consortium of companies working on software interoperability cites Europe's abundant open-source projects.
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Observers say partnerships between vendors show they are hoping to ignite a spark toward adoption of unified communications infrastructures that some predict could peak in about three years within corporate environments.