U.S. open-source group opens chapter in Europe
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Consortium of companies working on software interoperability cites Europe's abundant open-source projects.
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Novell is putting open source and identity management centre stage at its European user conference this week. The networking firm announced that Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES), which includes Novell&#39;s
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A new Seattle start-up called SourceLabs seeks to solve a longstanding problem with the popular open-source software movement: Components often don't talk with each other.
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The group, which is pushing for adoption of a universal e-business language, wants to make its standards easier and cheaper to use.
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Four Linux vendors have joined together to develop technology that would potentially make it easier for software makers to build products for multiple distributions of the open-source operating system.
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(InfoWorld) - The Open Grid Forum (OGF) standards body has officially opened for business, delivering on its commitment made back in June to detail its aims and organizational setup to coincide with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in Washington, D.C. The OGF Monday defined its mission "to accelerate grid adoption to ensure business value and scientific discovery," according to a release. With that in mind, the group will focus its efforts on two key areas over the coming 12 to 18 months -- serving as a forum for exchanging views on grid technology and helping push forward much needed work on grid software interoperability. The OGF plans to release a white paper in January 2007 to lay out the case for grid technology adoption within IT systems and has already set up a new committee to work on developing a technical strategy and road map around grid software interoperability. An initial road map should appear in the first quarter of next year after consultation with grid end-users and IT vendors. The OGF was formed when the Global Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA)Â decided to merge. The two groups first announced plans to unify their efforts in February andÂ officially took the plungeÂ to become a single group, the OGF, in June. At that time, they said the week of Sept. 11 would mark the OGF's official "coming-out party." In the past, despite focusing on different constituencies, with the GGF more closely aligned with the grid needs of IT vendors and the EGA with the requirements of enterprise users, the two groups sometimes appeared at odds with each other. This seeming conflict gave rise to speculation that a single organization might better serve everyone's needs. In organizational terms, the OGF has set up a 15-strong board. Members of the board include executives from EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Heading up operations for the standards body is Mark Linesch as president, the former chairman of GGF. Alongside Linesch are seven vice presidents, with areas of focus including the enterprise, e-science, standards and two regional functions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia.
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The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), UK, has finally given the green signal persuading governments to consider the deployment of open source while implementing new systems.
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Adoption of standalone open source software is accelerating, say researchers.
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IBM's Rational unit in June will unveil a Web site offering access to open source tools and standard specifications that can help improve collaboration among dispersed software development teams
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IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify the process of signing into Web sites.
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Presentate alla Conferenza di Berlino le novitÃ  della versione 2.0 e le strategie di marketing per la suite per ufficio open source che Ã¨ compatibile anche con Mac OS X. La comunitÃ  OpenOffice.org, la suite
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The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced the creation of a Open Source Software Licensing &amp; Legal education track at its upcoming Enterprise Linux
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A team of computer industry veterans including a former Microsoft executive are launching an open-source company that aims to be the Dell of the software industry.
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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.The project stems from governance work done in-house at HP, according to the Web site set up for the project.&quot;We needed a tool that would quickly and accurately describe how a given open-source project was licensed,&quot; a statement on the site reads. &quot;Rather than simply collecting a project&#39;s advertised license (as given at their website or in their documentation), this tool needed to analyze all of the source code for a given project and intelligently report all of the licenses being used based on the license declarations and tell-tale phrases that identify software licensing.&quot;FOSSology is available under the terms of the GPL (GNU General Public License) version 2 and currently has support on most GNU/Linux platforms, according to the site.It is not clear from the site how HP plans to make money through the initiative. A company spokeswoman declined comment and said Friday that more details will be announced next week.Companies like Black Duck Software are already in the FOSS-tracking business.HP&#39;s entry brought a warm welcome from Black Duck CEO Doug Levin. Levin may feel HP&#39;s involvement will help the market expand overall. &quot;We can now officially welcome HP to our market,&quot; Levin wrote on his blog . &quot;FOSSology is a nice tool for developers. It will result in software developers being better informed about their use of GPL. That makes it a very worthy tool.&quot;Right now, the FOSSology project has modules for license analysis, MIME type identification and for extracting metadata, according to the site.The site said the tool already generates detailed results: &quot;More than simply reporting, &#39;Package X uses license Y,&#39; the FOSSology tool attempts to analyze every file within the package to determine its license. The license report is thus an aggregate of all of the different licenses found to be in use by a package.&quot;FOSSology&#39;s analyses aren&#39;t foolproof, however, a statement on the site concedes: &quot;In general, the analysis results are very good guesses but should not be considered authoritative. (Or to say it simply: We&#39;re not lawyers. The code tries its best, but leave the legal decisions up to your own attorneys.)&quot;Over time, FOSSology is meant to be far more than an open-source license tracker, according to the site. Future capabilities could address bug fixes and patches, security alerts, and code reuse, as well as analysis of all types of software.The effort prompted praise on Friday from Michael Cote, an analyst with Redmonk. &quot;It&#39;s free and open source, which is nice,&quot; Cote said. &quot;So if the data is reliable and well-fed, it could be of help for people who don&#39;t want to work with Black Duck ... and others who have commercial ways to scan for open-source licenses.&quot;&quot;The interesting thing will be to see how open the resulting data is and how much reporting people do with it,&quot; he added. &quot;There&#39;s a sort of cloudy idea of how much open source is used in the enterprise, and having more accurate, free numbers would be great for the community, and more importantly, enterprises that want to get a feel for how widely used open source software is.&quot;The availability of free open-source usage data &quot;will help people make much better -- and affordable -- decisions about what open source to use and not use,&quot; Cote said.
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Ziff Davis - The emergence of stacks of open-source infrastructure software will spawn new opportunities for companies to enter and succeed in the open-source space, according to a panel of experts at the Harvard Business School's annual Cyberposium conference.
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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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As open source becomes pervasive, software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are adapting in different ways.