MySQL, JasperSoft Sign Reselling Agreement
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Open-source database vendor MySQL will sell JasperSoft's business intelligence tools to OEMs.
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Librepos is a point of sale application designed for touch screens, supports ESC/POS ticket printers, customer displays and barcode scanners. It is multiuser and has a great backoffice with a product entry form, reports and charts.   A lot of progress has been made since the previous release and there will be more progress the next release. A discussion in the forums explaining in detail the features included this release will start soon.  Changes:  * New logo. * Table state and receipts information now is shared between terminals. * New editor for Product-Warehouses information. * Enhanced security in the sales window. * Translations for fields in find dialogs and sort dialogs. * No more defaults for resources. Now all the resources are stored in the database. This is a change to the previous behavior . * The image editor now remembers the last opened folder. * Added to the image editor the images *.bmp. * Added message when the bar code entered does not correspond to any product found in the database. * Removed edition and visualization of the "Id" field in several tables. * Upgraded libraries: Jasperreports 2.0.1, Velocity 1.5, HSQLDB 1.8.0.8, JavaPOS 1.11 * Other little fixes.  You can download the binaries and sources in the following link:   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=127939
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(InfoWorld) - EnterpriseDB has notched up international florist FTD Group as a customer in a vote of confidence for the young database company, which is trying to poach customers from Oracle with the promise of lower license fees and compatibility with Oracle applications. EnterpriseDB, whose software is based on the open-source PostgreSQL database, remains tiny compared with Oracle with around 100 paying customers as of April. But the win with FTD Group, which follows deals withÂ Sony Computer EntertainmentÂ and Vonage, could help persuade other big companies to bet on its software. FTD hasn't pulled out any Oracle databases. But when it moved an external reporting tool from its main production system to a database server of its own, it decided Oracle was beyond its budget and chose EnterpriseDB, said Jason Weiss, software architect at FTD. The EnterpriseDB licenses were about one sixth of what FTD would have paid for Oracle software, he said. FTD, based near Chicago, processes orders through about 20,000 retail florists in the U.S. and through 200 distribution centers. The reporting tool, based on Oracle Reports, allows the distributors to generate reports about their orders automatically from FTD's ARGO shipping administration system. FTD updated the reporting tool in December, and it worked fine until Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, when the surge in requests from distributors turned up performance issues. The problem was significant because the reporting system runs on the main ARGO production servers, and it dragged their performance down too. The short term fix was to turn off the reporting tool and generate reports manually when distributors asked for them. Longer term, FTD decided to get the reporting environment onto a separate server. "We're an Oracle shop, so we went to them, got a quote, and laughed because it wasn't even close to being in the budget we were looking for," Weiss said. "We'd had the idea of EnterpriseDB put in our heads by our Sun rep six or nine months before. They said EnterpriseDB does all their PostgreSQL support and we should check them out." It took a month to rule out Oracle as an option, and by then FTD needed to act fast because Mother's Day was approaching on May 13. It preferred EnterpriseDB over other low-cost options because of its compatibility with Oracle applications, Weiss said. "I called and asked if there was any way at all we could make it work, they got engaged, and we had a full working prototype before we signed a contract," he said. Setting up Oracle Reports with an Oracle database would have been easy. "Oracle Reports requires you to pick a data store, and then normally you don't configure anything. [To use EnterpriseDB] we had to convert everything to a JDBC data source," he said. He had some problems with the data conversion -- Oracle Reports would request only 10 characters when a data field appeared to require 100, for example. But he persevered and got the transition done in about a month, he said. He's running the software on a four-processor Sun Fire v490 Solaris server. "I'm very pro-open source, I've used MySQL and PostgreSQL. The selling point with EnterpriseDB was the Oracle compatibility layer they have on top of it," Weiss said. Price was the other key factor. He estimated that FTD saved about $100,000 in license and support costs by going with EnterpriseDB. The Enterprise Edition of Oracle's database carries a list price of $40,000 per processor, while a Premium license for EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is $5,000 per processor. Weiss said he got no discount for being a public reference customer. "I'm definitely using this to put some leverage on Oracle to get them to knock their pricing down," he said. "We pay a ridiculous amount of money in just support contracts. I have a serious monetary motivation to kick them out of the door." EnterpriseDB doesn't have everything he'd like. "We're looking for multi-threaded replication capability, and I've been told it's coming. But aside from that the thing runs like a top. We've not had a single outage." His experience as an Oracle customer also made the decision to look at other vendors easier. "We run their application server throughout our environment, but they don't want to put any skin in the game. When I call customer service I get the same response as anybody else. When I called EnterpriseDB, they jumped."
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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Over on PHPMac.com there's a new article seeking to help you install PHPMyAdmin for MySQL multiuser environments.
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MySQL developers turn to an unlikely source for database tool: Microsoft. Also: SGI visualizes Linux, and the return of Java veteran Kim Polese.
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Sun Microsystems will acquire software company MySQL for $1 billion, the companies said.
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TechWeb - JasperSoft launches a suite of reporting tools for the open-source database.
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(InfoWorld) - JasperSoft Corp.'s open-source business intelligence products are speaking more languages than ever since the launch of an internationalization project in January. The translation project, JasperBabylon , has invited the JasperSoft developer community to translate the business intelligence suite into 30 to 35 languages, said JasperSoft CEO Paul Doscher. A peek at JasperBabylon shows the translation projects are in varying stages of completion depending on the language, and there's no timetable when certain languages will be fully translated, Doscher said. Some developers, for example, choose to translate certain modules in a particular font they need for their projects, he said. Most software developers are "comfortable with using English," but for JasperSoft to gain wider acceptance, it's important to have it in local languages, Doscher said. The most recent release of JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite Professional Edition 2.0 has been fully translated into French, German, Italian and Japanese, Doscher said. JasperSoft is competing in a hot BI market with vendors such as Business Objects and Oracle. Like many other open-source vendors, JasperSoft allows users to download basic versions of its products and makes money by offering support packages. Doscher said JasperSoft has about 6,000 paying customers, with an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 businesses using the free versions. Business tend to buy support from JasperSoft as they become more dependent on the software for their operations, Doscher said. For those customers, JasperSoft is planning to release upgraded versions of its suite every four months, a shipping cycle that businesses expect from proprietary software companies, Doscher said. He wouldn't say what's in store for the next release except that developers are working on better integration with business applications in addition to new "ad hoc" features that allow end users more flexibility to customize the data they're organizing. However, JasperSoft is closing in on the release of the final piece of its BI suite. Users can expect within the next six weeks the professional version of JasperETL (Extract, Transfer and Load), a tool to clean up data and move it into a data warehouse, Doscher said. Â
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InfoWorld - With Sun Microsystems' $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the backing of a multibillion-dollar, established systems company.
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Sun Microsystems has become a "patron" of the Free Software Foundation, joining the likes of HP, IBM, Google and MySQL. The announcement was made over the weekend at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, and follows Sun's decision to license Java under the GPL.
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So, what do you do to the worldâs nicest database, in order to get some enterprise salesâ¦ Letâs face it; MySQL is a fabulous database engine. Not only is it free, itâs small, powerful and easy to drive. It also runs happily on free operating systems and so it can be used to create incredibly cost-effective database servers.â¦
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The code, which was open-sourced in April, will be used for the administration tool that connects to the MySQL database.
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Andreas Gohr has posted about a script he's created to act as a simple replacement for the PHP/MySQL database tool phpMyAdmin - what he calls MySimple.php.   Kaddi needed to fix something in her employer's database today. Unfortunately she had FTP access only. So the database change had to be made through a PHP script. [...] I looked for a basic MySQL PHP interface but couldn't find one. So I quickly wrote it my self.   He has a screenshot of the app in action included and you can grab the code from his wiki.
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Company goes head-to-head with MySQL and PostgreSQL with a free version of its ASE database for Linux.
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MySQL on Wednesday announced general availability of Version 4.1 of its MySQL open source database, which the company is positioning as production-ready for large-scale enterprise usage.
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Open-source BI software vendor JasperSoft is set to unveil the final piece in its BI suite, JasperETL, after signing its first full-blown OEM deal with French vendor Talend. At the same time, the U.S. company will commit to complete internationalization of its entire BI suite.