Agilysys and Red Hat  announced that the two companies have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat solutions and the benefits of open source to Agilysys customers. Red Hat's unique vision and leadership in the open source community combined with the consulting and services capabilities of Agilysys Professional Services will provide customers with successful, cost-effective open source technology integrations in mission-critical environments. The agreement authorizes Agilysys Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) as a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, the top-tier level of Red Hat's channel program. This will enable the two organizations to collaborate in the development and delivery of reliable open source solutions to customers. "Today, customers are looking for comprehensive Linux solutions and the flexibility of an open source environment," said Dav... (more)

HP expands virtualized browsing solution

What are your employees computers being infected with because of Internet browsing on office machines? HP intends to help with a virtualized version of Mozilla Firefox thanks, to Symantec SVS. READ MORE ... (more)

OpenStack to Move to Its Own Foundation

Ahead of a conference in Boston, Rackspace said Wednesday that it will be turning control of the OpenStack cloud project that it started last year with NASA over to an independent OpenStack Foundation that will be set up next year. The foundation will be responsible for the open source project's governance and ownership of the OpenStack trademark. Rackspace, which currently controls the OpenStack copyrights as well as the trademark, will turn the IP over to the foundation. The company is supposed to gather feedback on the best structure and processes to adopt for the foundation. Rackspace and OpenStack were looking a wee bit too cozy there for a while after Rackspace bought Anso Labs and acquired most of OpenStack's board seats. It's supposed to be a community endeavor and Rackspace ultimately had to rearrange governance and voting rights to accommodate folks like... (more)

Industry Leaders to Collaborate on Linux Mobile Computing Platform

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To address the rise in consumer demand for access to the Internet and advanced applications on larger display mobile devices, ARM (; ) and six companies today announced a collaboration that will result in the development of a Linux-based open source platform for next-generation mobile applications. The collaboration, announced at the fourth annual ARM(R) Developers' Conference being held this week in Santa Clara, California, builds on the ARM architecture and its rich ecosystem of Partners to deliver a standards-base platform based on Linux. This group of companies are all working to accelerate the enablement of truly always on, connected mobile computing (CMC) devices. By releasing the new platform into the open source community, the new platform will be naturally adopted by ARM's large ecosystem of software an... (more)

Baynote and Hortonworks Bring Real-Time Big Data Insight to Retailers

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Baynote, a leading provider of big data solutions for retail, today announced it has joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program. Hortonworks Data Platform, based on 100-percent open source Apache™ Hadoop®, serves as the foundation of Baynote VUE, a self-service merchandising application purpose-built to equip retail marketing teams with the tools needed to create personalized, revenue-generating online shopping experiences. Baynote VUE is the first application of its kind to combine the performance of a modern big data engine with the simplicity of a consumer-style interface that can be used by non-technical individuals. A recent study by Aberdeen Group found that 59 percent of retailers identified a lack of consumer insights as their top data-related pain point. This is not due to a lack of data. It is due to... (more)

Actuate’s Utpal Bhatt to Speak at Annual Evans Developer Relations Conference on Monday, March 24th in Santa Clara

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT), The BIRT Company™ and the leader in personalized analytics and insights, today announced that Utpal Bhatt, VP Marketing, will lead a session at this year’s Evans Developer Relations Conference on March 24th, entitled, “Growing a community from 0 to over 3M BIRT developers: Lessons learned and where we go next.” The Evans Developer Relations Conference is an annual event sponsored by Evans Data Corporation, the industry leader in working with high-tech developers and related professionals to conduct custom market research focused on all areas of software and hardware development. The Conference features presentations from developer relations experts in leading companies. The event showcases the latest survey data on developers' technology adoption, views on program features and adoption, development preferences and “wish lists” on ... (more)

After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly

My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before. There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all i... (more)

SCO CEO Posts Open Letter to the Open Source Community

In an open letter to the OS community, Darl McBride writes: 'The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM alleging that SCO's proprietary Unix code has been illegally copied into the free Linux operating system...' Read the full letter here: The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO Group, became a ... (more)

Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because they can only give you answers." Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed. What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX? Eric Miraglia of Yahoo! 1.  (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the iPhone SDK vs using AJAX? 2.  How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to make it faster?  3.  When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for my rich web apps?  Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open

Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is fast approaching. Topics on which submission are welcome include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested examples below). Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud: submit your speaking propos... (more)

Simula Labs Launches Hosted Delivery Platform To Enable Enterprise Open Source Adoption

Simula Labs announced the availability of a complete hosted distribution delivery platform for complimentary open source technologies with the Community-oriented Real-time Engineering (CoRE) Network. The CoRE Network is the first delivery platform to offer enterprise IT a comprehensive framework for successfully adopting open source projects and processes through its hosted service, support and artifact repository platform. Simula Labs was conceived to accelerate open source adoption rates, by identifying and then building open source companies in key infrastructure market segments. Simula Labs’ CoRE Network naturally evolves this strategy, by providing a robust, community-oriented marketplace that gives enterprises a complete roadmap for adopting, managing and leveraging open source technologies from leading open source partner companies, including Covalent T... (more)