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Commercial Hadoop distribution

rb — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:42:32 +0100

Cloudera announced their distribution of Hadoop, software to distribute the handling of vast amount of data to a cloud of servers. And yes, you can get support.

Openbravo wolrd conference announced

rb — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:42:26 +0100

The Openbravo World Conference will start on 17 april with a full day dedicated to Openbravo Partners. 18 and 19 april are the Community days and open to all.
300 IT professionals from across the globe are expected at the conference which will feature such speakers as Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho and Matt Asay, VP of Business Development at Alfresco.

Open source trading platform released

rb — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:33:49 +0100

Marketcetera recently released version 1 of their automated trading platform. From the homepage: Marketcetera's platform lets brokers and traders build effective automated trading systems, develop proprietary algorithms, create order management solutions and manage risk faster, easier and at much lower cost than with closed platforms.

Another illustration of the breadth of solution proposed under an open source license.

Open Source Business: still searching?

rb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:27:30 +0100

As also mentioned during the first ERP session organised by Profoss, lots of open source companies are still searching their definitive business model. This is again put forth by an article from Stuart Cohen (former CEO of Open Source Development Labs) in BusinessWeek. His point is that support businesses are not sustainable because open source software is of great quality. Quite a big shortcut I think, but it has the benefit to have generated an interesting discussion on slashdot.

Open-Xchange get $9 million funding

rb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:41:00 +0100

Open-Xchange received $9 million funding. "Open-Xchange combines e-mail, appointment, contact and task management with document management", which makes it a competitor of Ms Exchange and Sharepoint.

Android source code finally available

rb — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:52:42 +0200

Just when the first Android powered phones become available in the US, google has published the source code of Android to source.android.com/. The code is managed with git, the source code control software originally designed by Linus Torvalds to managed the Linux source code, and is made available under the Apache license

Microsoft distributing open source software

rb — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:54:52 +0200

As mentioned on numerous websites, Microsoft's Webapplication Installer proposes the installations of open source web applications such as Drupal and Wordpress.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 available

rb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:32:51 +0200

OpenOffice.org has been released in version 3.0, which brings a lot of new features, including MS Office 2007 import filters. Worth a try if you're using or evaluating OpenOffice.org!

Economic crisis good for open source?

rb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:16:52 +0200

Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Redhat, claimed the economic crisis would boost open source in the enterprise, relative to its commercial counterpart.
Compared to commercial software requiring high upfront licensing costs and providing less flexibility, FOSS might be doing better indeed. But the economic downturn might encourage CIOs to choose for the status quo and block or delay new projects. That will certainly do no good to Free and Open Source Software.

Open source javascript library included in Microsoft's Visual Studio

rb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:44:51 +0200

As posted on the JQuery blog, Microsoft will make it part of their development platform, as it will be distributed with Visual Studio. This includes Intellisense support, and will not replace their other technologies, but rather complement it.

In the same blog post, Jquery announced that Nokia will included it in their Web run-time, their widget platform for S60.

This should help new developers, possibly in 100% microsoft shops, discover JQuery, maybe even without knowing they're using an open source tool.