SpringSource buys Covalent in open-source deal
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InfoWorld - In another acquisition involving companies focused on open source, proponents of the Spring Framework and Apache software have joined forces in a merger being announced Tuesday.
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Switzerland's Endress+Hauser (International) Holding AG, a global supplier of process control systems, has migrated all its business applications from SAP AG to a mainframe running the open-source Linux operating system.
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Cisco Systems Inc has beefed up its Application Oriented Networking offering by spending $135m on Reactivity Inc, a privately held developer of XML security, performance and availability technology.
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The purchase of privately held General Interface puts middleware specialist Tibco in the software development tool market.
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source players MySQL and Open-Xchange are teaming up so Open-Xchange can embed MySQL's database into its Linux-based collaboration server. The two companies announced a partnership and support agreement Thursday to optimize the interaction between MySQL databases and Open-Xchange groupware functions. Open-Xchange customers won't have to pay extra for product support for MySQL, they said. The partnership will result in more choice for customers in the way that they use the Open-Xchange server and can help users cut costs, according to Open-Xchange. MySQL was interested in supporting the integration because an increasing number of companies are choosing open-source collaboration products, like Open-Xchange, instead of proprietary products, the database vendor said. Open-Xchange competes with other open-source collaboration products from ScalixÂ and Zimbra as well as established proprietary software including Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Notes/Domino. The move is typical of a growing wave of significant partnerships being struck between commercial open-source players designed to simplify the integration of their respective products. For instance, back in June, open-source customer relationship management software vendorÂ SugarCRM announcedÂ a relationship with open-source business intelligence company JasperSoftÂ to allow SugarCRM users to generate reports using the co-developed JasperReports for the SugarCRM reporting engine.
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Three open-source software firms announced investments today: $27 million for Greenplum, $11 million for Zenoss, and $9 million for Alfresco.
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Johnson & Johnson sets up a collaboration with Isis Pharmaceuticals.
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InfoWorld - SpringSource, the keepers of the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, this week introduced Spring Integration, a framework to ease enterprise integration.
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Acquisition of one of the most successful open-source software companies is a bold move for Sun, which has embraced open source to try to boost revenue.
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Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds.
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(InfoWorld) - Although Java itself was only offered up to open source last month, many open source development projects have arisen around Java already. One of the better known ones, the Spring Framework, will be the subject of a technical conference this week. The Spring Experience will bring together 400 Spring devotees in Hollywood, Florida to discuss the framework and related technologies. Spring, which was upgraded to version 2.0 in October, has been downloaded about 2 million times, said Rod Johnson, lead developer of Spring and CEO of the Interface21 consulting firm, which oversees Spring. The technology features a Java application framework that reduces development efforts and improves test coverage and quality, according to Interface21. "There's a thriving community" built up around Spring, Johnson said on Wednesday. The conference will cover not just the framework itself but the portfolio of open source products bearing the Spring brand, he said. These include products such as the the Acegi Security Framework, which will be re-branded as Spring Security; Spring LDAP, Spring.Net, Spring IDE and Spring-OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative). These products are in various stages of development, Johnson noted. Spring-OSGi, which enables deployment of application subsystems, is due for a release in the second quarter of 2007, for example.Â  Spring's success can be attributed to its usefulness, according to Johnson. "I think the reason that people are attracted to it is that itâs a solution that came out of experience and actually works," he said. Spring has the potential to improve return on investment because it can work in a variety of environments, said Johnson, A Spring application running on Tomcat today could be redeployed to BEA Systems's WebLogic or IBM's WebSphere application servers tomorrow, he said. The technology is being adopted by companies such as BEA, Oracle and Terracotta; grid computing vendors are becoming interested as well, said Johnson. Meanwhile, the new open source path for Java received Johnson's endorsement. "We welcome this move. We think it's good that Sun is recognizing the central importance of open source to today's enterprise software. We think that Sun has done a pretty good job to date in its stewardship of the Java language, but involving a broader community has a potential to further increase the penetration of the Java platform and accelerate innovation in the language," Johnson said.
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Server maker signs partnership with SAS Institute and joins OSDL.
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Investor's Business Daily - Some free open-source software aside, business software has been sold through licensing agreements for packaged products or via Web-based subscriptions -- until now.
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Novell Inc. earlier this month bundled the open-source, J2EE-compliant JBoss Application Server with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, giving application developers a built-in deployment option.
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A partnership deal has investors in the small specialty pharma excited.
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Mobile software provider PalmSource is leaping into a market with a potentially huge upside with the acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS), and at the same time is giving a big boost to the open source developer commmunity.
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Open Text's major software acquisition takes flight.