A South Korean ISV called Digito.com that created Soft Messenger, the first Korean instant messaging program, has filed suit against Microsoft seeking $32.7 million in damages, according to the English language local publication Digital Chosun. The ISV is evidentl...

VMS, or rather its modern avatar OpenVMS, is turning 30 and - having been gussied up with open source tools like Apache, XML, Java and JavaBeans - still claims to run 300,000 systems worldwide in the financial community, hospitals, manufacturing and lotteries. HP,...

Evidently Novell should be afraid - very afraid - because Canonical with its Ubuntu distribution, Dell's little playmate, the Linux Dell's pre-loading on a few of its PCs, clearly has designs on Novell's place in line behind Red Hat, the Linux leader. On Thursday,...

It is time to unite the community behind the standard, universal format for office suites and distance themselves from Ecma TC45 and DIS 29500. The participation of Gnome in Ecma TC45's apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS and...

The GNU Project has released version 0.96(.1) of GNU Classpath, an incomplete free implementation of the core Java class libraries. The main feature of this release is the new experimental GStreamer peer arising from the work of Mario Torre on his Google Summer ...

OpenLogic has launched a free web site called OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) where enterprise developers can go to find, research and download open source software that carries OpenLogic's seal of approval assuring them it's safe for enterprise use. The company says ...

Pentaho Corp. has announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides the general availability of new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling...

MySQL AB has announced that the Swedish National Police are implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software (OSS) infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL, and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently being ...

An international development team has announced the first official release of ProjectPier. Based on widely accepted technologies like PHP and MySQL, ProjectPier offers an open source collaboration solution that can be installed on any shared hosting server within minutes.

OpenLogic Exchange is designed for enterprises that want to use open source software. Today, enterprise developers must comb through massive repositories trying to find the short list of open source products that are viable and appropriate for their enterprise nee...

IBM has announced 'a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.' In other words, a rival to Microsoft Office. Symphony is available starting yesterday.

After 17 months of thinking about it, 13 judges of the Court of First Instance in Switzerland are supposed to rule early Monday morning on Microsoft's closely watched appeal from the European Commission's 2004 monopoly abuse findings, sanctions and record fines....

The OpenOffice.org community - responsible for the free software alternative to Microsoft Office - has welcomed IBM as a community member. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including acc...

'Sun did not approach NetApps about licensing any of Sun's patents and never filed complaints against NetApps or demanded anything.' With those blogged words Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz has refuted the allegation by Network Appliance that Sun 'aggressively demande...

This introductory hands-on seminar will provide an overview of the open source OpenLaszlo architecture and development environment, as well as the basics to learning Laszlo?s XML+JavaScript based coding language, called LZX. Attendees will discover OpenLaszlo's ...

Open source as a service is the future of open source application delivery, allowing end users to experience success with minimal investment. Get ahead of the curve and learn how open source is aligning with SaaS, and why you should consider the SaaS model. Learn ...

The inflection point has been reached in the adoption of open source software and Projity is working closely with the industry leaders in accelerating this trend,l? said Marc O?Brien, CEO, Projity, as he announced today that over 25,000 copies of OpenProj - a free...

OpenXLS is being released under the GPL license. Based on the same codebase as ExtenXLS version 3, a proven product used in mission-critical applications at dozens of the largest companies in the world, OpenXLS provides the Excel compatibility and robustness pre...

GridGain 1.5 features new and improved functionality and class leading integration capabilities including integration with JBoss, Spring, Weblogic, Websphere, Coherence, GigaSpaces, Mule, JXinsight and others.

IBM is getting closer to releasing parts of the project called Jazz, a joint project between IBM Rational and IBM Research to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle, led by Erich Gamm...

'This release marks the tipping point of Plone in both the mainstream as well as the enterprise,' said Alexander Limi, co-founder of Plone, as The Plone Foundation today announced the launch of the newest version of its open source Content Management System, Plone 3.0.

'I am totally sure that active participation in SourceKibitzer will convert into invaluable Java EE and Open Source experience,' said co-founder of SourceKibitzer (and a Java developer himself), as SourceKibitzer - for Java developers working on open-source softwa...

'Content repositories specialize in intelligent content storage, while applications like Magnolia can focus on the management and presentation of content,' wrote Boris Kraft, a member of the Magnolia Development Team, in an open letter released today to announce t...

Calling it a 'comprehensive relationship' representing 'a tectonic shift in the market landscape,' Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced on Thursday a collaboration between Sun and IBM aimed at enabling the Solaris OS to run on IBM servers. In a conference call un...

'If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux,' wrote a leading technology magazine editor this week, Jim Louderback, as he described his frustration ? nine months after its launch ? with Microsoft's new OS.

A California-based market research company has agreed to pay a $300,000 settlement for illegally distributing copyrighted articles, research reports and other information without proper licenses or permission to employees via e-mail newsletters. The Software & I...

In this presentation, we'll introduce Laszlo Webtop 1.2, a framework built on OpenLaszlo for delivering multiple RIA/AJAX applications in a desktop-like user experience. Coupled with Webtop's breakthrough cinematic user interface is a corresponding server-based SO...

PHP has been a major driving force behind modern web applications. It is the server-side language of choice for a majority of Web 2.0 sites. Zend Framework is one of the leading open-source PHP frameworks and has a flexible architecture that lets you easily buil...

HP is open sourcing its Parallel Compositing Library, which lets users leverage unused compute power in an HPC cluster to visualize complex data sets. It's using the LGPL 2 license, making it suitable for both open source and proprietary use. The company has also ...

A Seattle federal judge has turned down Microsoft's motion to dismiss a class action accusing it of misleading the public with its 'Vista Capable' holding action because the boxes so designated couldn't run the high-end premium cut of Vista with features like Aero interface.

SteelEye Technology, a provider of data protection and application availability solutions for Linux and Windows, has become a Gold member of Novell PartnerNet for Technology Partners.

Centeris Corporation, a pioneer in developing enterprise software solutions that seamlessly integrate Linux, UNIX, and Mac systems in a Microsoft Windows network, introduced Likewise Identity 3.5, providing expanded group policies and support for more than 100 platforms.

After comparing the code, the Software Freedom Law Center has absolved the OpenHAL project of allegations of infringing on Atheros Communications' IP. The project provides an open source interface to Atheros wireless cards, replacing Atheros' proprietary Hardware ...

Microsoft, evidently off its meds and exhibiting an increasing tendency toward bipolar behavior, says it's going to submit two one-page shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the arbiter of all open source licenses that has been widely critici...

In another trip down the rabbit hole to where things are odd indeed, SpikeSource, Kim Polese's open source stack operation, is going to certify all of its SpikeIgnited open source applications on Windows. In concert with Microsoft, it says. SpikeIgnited includes B...

Based on opt-in data provided during the June quarter by 10,000 of its community members, Alfresco, the open source content management house, says that Windows is increasingly popular as an evaluation platform for open source software but that most enterprises use...

To help with the migration to multi-core chips, Intel has open sourced its Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library of C++ templates under the old GPL 2 license with the runtime exception (notice - it's not using the newfangled GPL 3). TBB is supposed to simplify t...

One Laptop per Child said Monday that it has authorized the mass production of its novel ruggedized XO widget, based on its final Beta-4 engineering model, triggering what it calls a supply chain of 800 parts. What that seems to mean is that OLPC looks like it's g...

Motorola has released the source code of Precise Process Accounting (PPA) for the Linux Kernel to the Open Source community on April 23, 2007, under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. The current release supports the Linux kernel version 2.6.18.6.

Talend, the open source data integration ISV, has secured $3.5 million in Series B financing from AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners, the firm's existing backers. The money is for marketing, product development and 'global expansion of operations.' With the n...