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Over 49,000 readers have enjoyed this article since Friday when it was published. Read another Maureen O'Gara story from the same day: IBM Dreams of Pushing Microsoft Off the Desktop and Stomping its Clinging Fingers SCO CEO Darl McBride, the most hated man in the computer industry, says he's reached for an analogy to describe SCO's experience since suing IBM. "This is like...," he's said to himself, groping for an elucidating comparison, only to conclude, "Nothing...Nothing compares to what's happened in the last year." What happened in the last few days proves his point. BayStar, the venture capital outfit that wants its money back from SCO - a highly uniquely situation even for the computer business - has suddenly and out of the blue doubled its position in the company. The Royal Bank of Canada, which BayStar brought into the $50 million investment the pair made in... (more)

EC May Not Clear Oracle-Sun Merger: Reuters

As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger and delay things another four months. Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the competitive implications of Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL and debating whether to open a full-scale investigation. If the EC decides to probe, the acquisition could get a pass, a fail or get loaded down with conditions, dragging out any resolution until late December, early January. Further delays will give IBM and HP even more time than they’ve already had to rustle Sun’s remaining hardware customers. They’ve been chasing them since Oracle announced its intentions to buy Sun in April. ... (more)

MARVELit, a Leading Open Source Business Intelligence Vendor, to Integrate and Support IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

POWAY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/17/05 -- MARVELit, Inc., a leading open source business intelligence company based in San Diego, today announced its support for IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition for new and existing customers of MARVELit's OpenReports Portal business intelligence (BI) suite of applications and services. MARVELit is responding to client needs to leverage the benefits of open source solutions while receiving strong support and services from a trusted IT vendor. "Small and medium-size businesses need BI solutions, but existing products and services are just too expensive and complex," said Rick Mortensen, founder and chief executive officer for MARVELit. "Using the OpenReports Portal business intelligence suite with IBM support allows our customers to tap into the low cost entry of open source technology to quickly develop and depl... (more)

Sun Open Sources Java Platform and Releases Source Code Under GPL License Via NetBeans and Java.net Communities

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the creator and leading advocate of Java(TM) technology, today announced it is releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2). Available today are the first pieces of source code for Sun's implementation of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and a buildable implementation of Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). Details are available at:http://www.sun.com/opensource/java. In addition, Sun is adding the GPLv2 license to Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), which has been available for over a year under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) through Project GlassFish(TM) at http://glassfish.dev.java.net/. This announcement represents one of the largest source code contributions unde... (more)

Zenoss Launches Core 1.0 Product

ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise network and systems monitoring software, today announced the availability of Zenoss Core version 1.0. Zenoss Core is an integrated IT monitoring product that allows IT administrators to manage the status and health of their entire infrastructures through a single web-based console. As a free, open source software product, Zenoss provides organizations world-wide with a new alternative for enterprise-grade IT monitoring that is substantially less expensive and easier to deploy than traditional solutions. "Zenoss Core has been downloaded more than 50,000 times in the last 120 days; many organizations rely on the product every day to monitor their mission critical IT infrastructure," said Bill Karpovich, CEO and Co-Founder of Zenoss, Inc. "The solution has already been proven in deman... (more)

Splunk Customer Wins InfoWorld 100 Award for Cutting Edge Troubleshooting Implementation

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, applauds its customer, Open Source Lab at Oregon State University (OSL), for being recognized as one of the most creative and cutting-edge implementers of enterprise technology by industry- leading publication InfoWorld. OSL was among 100 companies honored with the prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award for the most innovative corporate IT solutions in 2006. The acclaimed project includes Splunk, the industries highest performance log and IT data search engine. OSL provides free hosting for many of the most high profile open source projects in the world: the Linux Kernel Project, the Apache Software Foundation, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice.org, KDE, Mozilla and Drupal. The lab's size has more than tripled in the past 18 months and hosts 130 servers. Utilizin... (more)

IBM Open Source Application Server Gains Support of More Than 600 Partners in Six Months

ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/15/06 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that more than 600 independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators have joined IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition partner initiative since it was launched just six months ago. WAS Community Edition is IBM's open source application server based on Apache Geronimo. As a direct result of this initiative, more than 200 ISVs have developed and introduced new software applications that support WAS Community Edition, while more than 250,000 copies of WAS Community Edition have been downloaded. The WAS Community Edition partner initiative is aimed at helping business partners reduce costs and grow revenue when supporting open source technologies. IBM assists partners with free sales, marketing and technical support to use WAS Community Edition to provide department... (more)

Bull and JBoss Form Strategic Partnership

JBOSS WORLD, BERLIN, Germany, November 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bull and JBoss, a division of Red Hat , today announced a worldwide technology and business partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable open source middleware solutions for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA). The partnership, which builds on Bull's existing alliance with Red Hat, is JBoss' first strategic partnership in Europe to include open source research and development collaboration and demonstrates both companies' leadership and commitment to open source software innovation. The multi-dimensional agreement increases open source innovation, interoperability, integration, delivery, and support capabilities. Bull and JBoss will work together in three areas: - R&D; Collaboration: Bull becomes a contributor to the JBoss community, following the same collab... (more)

Liberty Alliance Announces 'Open Source Identity for the Web 2.0 Era' Webcast November 29

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the public webcast "Open Source Identity for the Web 2.0 Era" taking place on Wednesday, November 29 at 8:00am US PST. This event is open to anyone interested in learning about open source single sign-on identity systems and how the interoperability, privacy and security capabilities of SAML 2.0 can benefit many of today's Web 2.0 applications. The webcast presentation will be hosted by Pat Patterson, member of the Liberty Alliance Technology Expert Group and federation architect with Sun Microsystems. The event will provide an overview of the open source projects in and around identity with specific focus on OpenSSO, an open source project that implements identity feder... (more)

GNOME Foundation Retains Software Freedom Law Center

NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME Foundation supports the development of the open source GNOME Desktop Environment, a user interface used by millions of people around the world and distributed with all major versions of Linux and Unix. "We are excited to have retained the services of the Software Freedom Law Center," said Anne Oestergaard, Vice Chair of the GNOME Foundation Board. "As SFLC's client, we now have access to legal advice from trusted professionals who devote their full attention to Free and Open Source Software." As a client of SFLC, the GNOME Foundation can receive advice regarding a variety of legal issues, including patent and trademark issues. "... (more)

Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year of Coverity Scan Site

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced source code analysis solution, today celebrated the one year anniversary of the scan.coverity.com project that was started under an open source vulnerability research contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The contract is shared with Stanford University and Symantec Corporation. Coverity also announced a major expansion of the analysis scope, increasing the number of open source projects involved to 150, up from 50. In the first year, developers fixed an average of 16 defects a day. Many of the new projects are so widely used that a single serious defect could affect millions of people. For example, Coverity added regular scans of zlib, a compression program used in more than 500 applications, including MSN Messenger, Microsoft Office, QuickTime and Apache. O... (more)

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