Open-source e-mail vendor Scalix joins OSDL
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Linux e-mail and calendaring vendor Scalix has joined the nonprofit Open Source Development Labs to help push the implementation of desktop Linux.
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Company plans to begin shipping in February its Open Enterprise Server, which combines open source and commercial networking platforms.
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As part of a European antitrust settlement, Microsoft will supply protocol documentation to developers of the open-source software.
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Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora.
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(InfoWorld) - On Monday, Iona will release Celtix Enterprise, an enterprise service bus for departmental usage and SOA, in a move to leverage the hybrid business model arising around open source software. Through this model, the company will provide the software for free under an open source paradigm while selling subscriptions for ancillary services and support. In development for about18 months, Celtix mixes in pieces from multiple open source projects and offers capabilities for service routing and messaging. "The main driver [for Celtix] is that people would like to service-enable their existing IT environment and this allows them to do it in a very low-cost way," said Debbie Moynihan, Iona director of open source programs. With Celtix, Iona is expanding its view of open source technology, seeing it as a revenue generator and not just as a lead-in to its commercial Artix ESB, said analyst Tom Rhinelander of New Rowley Group. "What's now happened with Celtix is it's matured and they said, 'Look, we think this can be a real product,' " Rhinelander said. Celtix provides capabilities needed to get started in SOA, Rhinelander said. "Celtix is really about moving up from basic Web services to an SOA," he added. Several open source components comprise the Celtix ESB platform. These include: * Celtix Advanced Messaging, which provides messaging based on AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). It serves as an alternative to platforms such as IBM MQSeries. Iona's AMQP implementation was derived from the Apache Incubator Qpid project. * Celtix Advanced Service Engine, based on the Apache CXF project, which merges the Apache Celtix and XFire projects. The services engine offers a pluggable services framework and supports standards such as SOAP and WS-Security. * Service routing and transformation capabilities from the Codehaus Mule ESB. * Tooling for services development through the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform Project. Iona with Celtix is trying to provide an entire SOA infrastructure stack in a single solution. Also packaged with Celtix are the Spring, ServiceMix, and Tomcat servlet containers, to enable customers to deploy services across a variety of technologies. The containers serve as runtime environments for deploying services. Celtix differs from Iona's commercial Artix ESB, which is geared for much larger service deployments and can run on systems such as mainframes. Celtix runs on a Java Virtual Machine and can only integrate with over systems that use a JVM. The Advanced Service Engine and Advanced Messaging components also will be available unbundled from Celtix. "For people who just want to get started in a lightweight, small-footprint kind of way, they can do that with the Celtix Advanced Service Engine," Moynihan said.Â  Service and support prices for Celtix Enterprise start at $900 for six incidents of support.Â
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - E-mail security systems vendor IronPort Systems Inc. is releasing new versions of its C-Series line of e-mail security appliances, with features that make it easier
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Company outsources e-mail for small to medium businesses.
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source database vendor MySQL and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoftÂ on Tuesday announced a joint reselling agreement. As part of the agreement, MySQL will resell Jasper for MySQL: OEM Edition, a repackaging of JasperSoft's reporting tools, to its commercial independent software vendor (ISV) and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. The BI tools will enable developers to more easily incorporate reporting capabilities into the products they build on top of the MySQL database. The BI tools include JasperSoft's iReport graphical report designer and JasperReports reporting system. In return, JasperSoft will be able to resell MySQL database software as part of its JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite. Jasper for MySQL costs $195 per server. The partnership is the latest to be struck between open-source companies as a way to more tightly integrate their respective products so that customers don't have to try and piece the offerings together themselves. One of the strengths of proprietary software is the tight integration of stacks of software from databases up through applications. In order to provide a real alternative to closed-source software, open-source vendors are focusing more and more intensely on integration issues. MySQL competes against proprietary database players like IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, pitting its software both against their entry-level free databases and their commercial enterprise offerings. In the BI market, JasperSoft encounters Business Objects and Oracle and increasingly Microsoft as the software giant offers more reporting functionality in its applications. Earlier this month, JasperSoft was one of theÂ founding members of the Open Solutions AllianceÂ (OSA), a new nonprofit consortium of open-source providers of business software. The body's main goal is to work on resolving open-source interoperability issues to make life easier for business users looking to integrate products from different vendors. Another founding member of OSA is French open-source data integration startup Talend. In late January, JasperSoft announced its first majorÂ OEM deal with Talend. The partnership has enabled the U.S. vendor to complete its BI suite with the addition of an enhanced version of Talend's Open Studio software known as JasperETL. In December, MySQL unveiled aÂ partnership with Open-XchangeÂ allowing the open-source company to embed the MySQL database into its Linux-based collaboration server. Â
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Not content with eating into Microsoft&#39;s share of the browser market with Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation has released an open-source email client to rival Outlook.
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A small Oregon-based company on Wednesday released a set of integrated add-on tools for Microsoft&#39;s Outlook e-mail client.
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(InfoWorld) - Linux desktop and server vendor Xandros on Wednesday acquired Scalix, which develops an open-source e-mail, calendar, and groupware platform. Xandros, which develops a Linux desktop, server, and set of management tools called BridgeWays, said the acquisition would help it build toward its goal of developing a complete Linux stack, including desktop, small and midsize business, and advanced enterprise servers, cross-platform management tools, and IT infrastructure applications. "Instead of being a point-solution player we can to be an end-to-end solutions provider with desktop, management, server, and applications," said Andy Typaldos, CEO of Xandros and now president of Scalix. "If you package all the pieces together [users] don't have to have a fragmented set." In March, XandrosÂ announcedÂ that its Xandros Server 2 would come bundled with Scalix 11, which includes improved Web client access, support for mobile users, support for Microsoft Outlook and interoperability with Microsoft Exchange. The bundle was targeted at the SMB market.Typaldos said close engineering and executive level collaboration with Scalix on that deal led to exploring the acquisition. As part of the acquisition, Xandros said its BridgeWays management tools for administration, deployment/management, systems monitoring, and storage management would be adapted to manage Scalix on the platforms it supports. Those management capabilities are expected to be available later this year. The company's overall goal is to offer single-vendor, cross-platform support that spans Linux and Windows platforms. Xandros made news earlier this year when it became the second Linux vendor to signÂ a cross-patent licensing dealÂ with Microsoft. Part of that deal included ensuring interoperability between management tools from both vendors and Windows-based servers, and Typaldos said that part of the agreement would help fill out cross-platform support. Scalix is an open source mail server, based on OpenMail, which runs on Linux servers, and uses e-mail standards such as POP, IMAP, SMTP, and MIME and works with any standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory. Xandros says Scalix, whose software runs on the Xandros, Red Hat, and Novell SuSE platforms, will continue to operate independently as a wholly owned subsidiary. Xandros said it will continue to provide "full and equal" support for all the Scalix platforms. The company also said its server would continue to support other messaging platforms, most notably Zimbra and Open Exchange. The company also said that the free Scalix Community Edition would remain available on all current platforms and that Xandros would continue to offer the source code to the Scalix platform via the upcoming ScalixForge Web site. Terms of the deal were not announced. Xandros said it will absorb all of the engineering, support, and most of the sales support staff of Scalix, pushing its employee total to more than 100. Scalix CEO Glenn Winokur and other Scalix managers won't join Xandros, but Winokur will work on the Xandros Advisory Board.
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Microsoft this month is moving forward with the developer implementation of its anti-spam Sender ID framework, but open-source advocates and mail vendors doubt whether the software giant&#39;s new proposed license meets open-source requirements.
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Webmail.us is announcing improvements to its service next week and will migrate its core e-mail platform from Microsoft Windows to an open-source platform.
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Open1X is an open source implementation of the IEEE 802.1X protocol. This project includes support for the authenticator and supplicant, while other projects (e.g., FreeRADIUS) provide support for the authentication server.   XSupplicant version 2.0.1 has been released. This release fixes bugs that have been found since the 2.0.0 release. It does not contain any new features.  In addition to the new release, there has been a lot of work taking place on the next version. First, the project management committe (PMC) decided to rename the codename from SeaMonkey to SeaAnt and to accept a letter ordering for all future codenames. So, along with SeaAnt, the two releases that will follow it are "SeaBadger", and "SeaCow". Second, the roadmap for SeaAnt has been approved by the PMC. Two versions are available. The "executive summary" version can be found here, a longer version with (really) rough timelines can be found here. Third, we have started to work on various pieces of documentation. All of the documentation will be included in future source drops, in addition to the documentation links in the SourceForge project.  Last, but not least, we have also decided to move away from CVS to Subversion. HEAD development (SeaAnt and beyond) is now using subversion. While making this cut over, we also took the opportunity to rearrange the source tree a little. There are now three main modules :      * xsupplicant -- The XSupplicant engine (GPL/BSD licensed)     * xsupplicant-ui -- The XSupplicant UI (GPL licensed)     * xsupplicant-build -- Install packaging and build scripts (GPL/BSD licensed)  The 2.0.x code will continue to come out of the older CVS branches.
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Software company Netline claims its decision to open source the latest version of its email server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.
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After a few years of flirting with the idea of developing its own suite of applications, perhaps under the Lotus banner, that support the OASIS OpenDocument format, IBM has decided to join Sun Microsystems in the development of OpenOffice.org, the principal open source ODF applications suite.
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Open source has its limits Novell has abandoned an open source project hyped as challenging Microsoft Outlook and Exchange by becoming the "Apache" of email and collaboration software.â¦