Ingres, Wipro team on open source enterprise software
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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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Open-source collaboration software vendor depends on its partners to compete.
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Wipro Technologies, the global services arm of Indian outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., plans to open a software development center in Atlanta, the company said.
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TechWeb - The new members aim to strengthen the organization's efforts to create an open source mobile software platform.
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Cisco systems Inc. has teamed up with Cognio Inc. on a system designed to ferret out the source of radio frequency noise that can interfere with WiFi networks.
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Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and wireless software, deepened its commitment to the Linux community with the availability of a free deployment version of an enterprise-class Linux database-Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
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(InfoWorld) - Ingres will take different approaches to supporting soft appliances that combine its database with applications from JasperSoft and Alfresco Software. When Ingres launched its Icebreaker soft appliance, it also invited other developers to build special versions of the appliance integrating their own application software. The first of those, a BI appliance built with JasperSoft BI Suite, is now complete, and the stack is being tested by early adopters, Ingres President and COO Roger Burkhardt said Thursday. It should launch next month and probably will be named Ingres BI Appliance, he said. Ingres plans to handle the customer account and first and second-line support for the BI Appliance and is training its support staff on JasperSoft's products, he said. In return for providing third-line support, JasperSoft will get a share of the support subscription price paid for the appliance by the end-user, Burkhardt said. That price "will be a significant increase of the cost of the database alone, but it will be dramatically less expensive than combining traditional components," he said. The company will adopt different support models with different partners, he said. That will mean a larger support role for Alfresco, which is working with Ingres to integrate its enterprise content management appliance with Icebreaker. "They are expecting us to provide level one [support] and level two as well as level three," said Alfresco CEO John Powell. One of the reasons for that is the more time-critical role played by content management in the enterprise. Users might be prepared to wait while a bug in their BI report is fixed, but they will want help right away if an important document disappears from the database or transactions are no longer committed, he said. With integration work on both appliances all but done -- Powell said that "the technology is all there" for the content management appliance -- the next challenge is finding a channel to market. That will involve another level of integration as the companies look for partners to turn a vanilla content management software stack into a vertical-market-specific appliance for storing a particular kind of content, he said. The early adopters of the BI appliance will help Ingres with that challenge, Burkhardt said. Many of them are systems integrators, building particular kinds of dashboards on top of the stack. For instance, one is using it to develop a BI system for U.S. credit unions, while another is tailoring the system for reporting on IT infrastructure. Once the BI appliance is complete, Burkhardt said, work will begin on another module that will link it to Salesforce.com's hosted CRM service, allowing it to make a local mirror of all the sales data held on the Salesforce servers and then generate reports from it locally.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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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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The company launches an open-source software effort to further its plans to make Fibre Channel over Ethernet a reality.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. is clearing the air around enterprise wireless LANs with a partner that specializes in radio spectrum analysis. The company is offering Cognio Inc.'s Spectrum Expert for Wi-Fi, a tool for studying interference around a wireless LAN, to complement its own Wireless Control System. Together, the tools are intended to help enterprises lay out wireless LANs and take care of rogue wireless gear and interference from a variety of sources, including non-Wi-Fi devices such as microwave ovens. Cognio's product is available now through Cisco's regular sales channels. Interference and security are two key issues for enterprises that want to set up comprehensive wireless LANs for demanding new applications, namely VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). Cognio is one of many specialist companies that offer tools for working out those issues. Cisco, which is betting big on the spread of Wi-Fi from vertical industries to general businesses, wants to make sure its networks deliver a good experience. The Spectrum Expert is a CardBus device that plugs into a Windows notebook and works with software to detect and identify interfering devices and help a technician locate the device. Wireless LAN security systems from AirMagnet Inc., Fluke Networks Inc. and WildPackets Inc. use Cognio technology. Cisco's Wireless Control System is a server-based application for planning, designing, monitoring and managing wireless LANs. It can support thousands of access points around an enterprise and carry out tasks including user tracking and security monitoring, according to Cisco.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Dataprobe, a leading manufacturer of innovative technology solutions for  networking systems management, has released a new remote power  distribution and management solution, the iBootBar.
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Ingres is making it simpler for Eclipse developers to build Java applications to run on its open-source database.
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Two vendors are releasing products for the enterprise that enable what they claim is seamless switching between cellular and standard voice-over-IP calls.
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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 new product incorporates commercial and open source networking platforms with integrated management tools and identity-based services.
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SANDY, Utah, Feb. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Opengear, a quality supplier of remote management solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Nagios to integrate their renowned open-source host and network monitoring program within Opengear's IM4200 gateways and CM4000 console servers.
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Nokiaâs Preminet solution, launched this week at the CTIA Wireless IT &amp; Entertainment event in San Francisco, sources Java and Symbian OS software from leading developers and content aggregators around the globe to give network operators a master