Actuate pushes open-source data reporting
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The software maker proposes open-source Java-based reporting tools for consideration by the Eclipse open-source foundation.
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Web log software company Six Apart said Tuesday it had released a beta of the newest version of its Movable Type software, as well as announcing the platform would go open source by the end of this quarter.
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TechWeb - A UK government report encourages public agencies to consider using Linux and other open-source alternatives to commercial software.
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The success of platforms like JBoss, Apache and Jonas will boost open-source integration products--if some key conditions are met.
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Actuate Corp. announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation, the organization focused on delivering an open source development environment, and has launched a new Eclipse project to focus on open-source business intelligence and reporting tools.
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(InfoWorld) - Fortify SoftwareÂ and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects run audits of their source code using Fortify's source code analysis software and the University of Maryland's FindBugs tool. With developers focusing on more secure software development practices, the Java community needs more advanced bug-finding tools like JOR, said Barmak Meftah, vice president of product and services, with Fortify. "Everybody understands that the cheapest and easiest point to find and fix security bugs is at the time of implementation," he said. Open-source developers will now get the benefit of Fortify's Source Code Analysis software, which is already used by commercial vendors such as Oracle and Adobe Systems. But the free JOR analysis is not as detailed as one done by Fortify's commercial product. Fortify Source Code Analysis can find more than 120 categories of software security problems, Meftah said. The JOR analysis will detail about 40 categories, covering "the most egregious types of security vulnerabilities and the types that developers tend to understand most readily," he said. The details of the free source code analysis will be made available only to project contributors so that JOR cannot be used as a hacking tool, Meftah added. JOR has been working with a handful of open-source projects over the past six weeks and has discovered hundreds of bugs in applications like Tomcat, Zimbra and Java Pet Store. On Monday, the service will be opened up to any Java open-source projects that want to use it, Meftah said. Sun Microsystems already uses FindBugs for its GlassFish open-source application server software, said Geoff Halliwell, a manager of application server quality engineering with Sun. Though Sun has no immediate plans to audit its application server code with JOR, Halliwell said he would "certainly look at it." "In my business, we're always looking to improve," he said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted a press review with some good news for PHP developers all over - Zend and Acutate are collaborating to provide reporting (BIRT) to PHP.   he collaboration between Zend and Actuate has resulted in new capabilities in the 3.0 version of the Zend Platform, which is available today for download as a pre-release version at www.zend.com. Zend Platform 3.0 allows PHP developers to quickly integrate reporting capabilities, including charting, to web applications by calling Actuate BIRT reports via the Zend Java Bridge.  New functionality included in this collaboration includes flexibility when generating the reports (output formats/export options), an easy-to-use visual environment, and an integrated charting system including various graphing formats (like pie, chart, area, scatter, and stock).   Check out the full press release for the full story on this collaboration.
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CompaniesÂ Web services orchestration platforms share linkage through Collaxa
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Businesses may like the idea of Web-based software that tracks event data and relays it back to a desktop or mobile interface.
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Firm's ReportNet product now is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM's pSeries servers.
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Open Text's major software acquisition takes flight.
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OpenLogic has released a free automated census tool, OSS Discovery, to count business users of open-source software.
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ETAI Group, a company in France that publishes auto parts catalogs and service manuals, is using open-source data-integration tools to try to streamline the process of updating the information in its nine databases.
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Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment.
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PARIS - A group of European research institutions and open-source software companies has launched an effort to build new tools that will make it easier to do complex IT projects based on Linux and other open-source software, they said this week.
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Developing mapping software? Autodesk plans to release a handy coordinate conversion tool as open-source software.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Data integration will be one of the major themes at Oracle's OpenWorld conference this week.Â