Wikis are a great software tool for collaboratively creating and editing content. They seem to be an obvious choice for building a community Web infrastructure. Yet they have serious drawbacks that made JBoss.org choose a Content Management System (CMS) instead of a Wiki to build its new community website. Managing Content of High-Traffic Community Sites JBoss.org's website currently serves 20 million page views per month and hosts over 40 community projects within that website. Each project area has a navigation menu on the left and a content area on the right. Some projects need more pages than others because of their project structure. JBoss.org currently uses an in-house system they developed, but wanted to focus on adding value for the more than 40 software projects it hosts, instead of maintaining a self-made CMS. Initially in April 2008, JBoss.org evaluated W... (more)

Flashback to '04: "Let Java Go" – ESR Writes Open Letter to Sun

Read this Open Letter in its original version at Eric Raymond's Web site Read a previous Open Letter from ESR published at LinuxWorld The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy. That confusion is evident in another of your quotes. Many of us think you are right on when you say that "Sun [...] is less threatened by a zero-revenue model for software than just about anybody out there." We agree that the potential for you in using open-source software as a value multiplier for Sun's hardware business is hug... (more)

i-Technology Viewpoint: "Open Source Is Not a Trend, It's a Paradigm Shift"

I recently read an article in the "mainstream" media that gave me pause. The author made an assertion that the current trend towards Open Source might just be a passing fad. I thought about this and looked critically at the software industry, thinking about whether there was merit in that statement. After all, we have seen plenty of high flyers peter out in a software industry riddled with buzzwords and acronyms-of-the-day. I just don't believe that open source is one of them. When I worked in the Internet Service Provider (ISP) business, we saw every new consumer Internet fad firsthand. I remember PointCast, a push technology with a screen saver and news ticker that sucked up bandwidth and reduced office LANs to a crawl. I recall the days when every other technical support call was for help setting up the hot new Web browser, Netscape (the code that has, ironicall... (more)

Google Chrome: Firefox, Chrome already fighting over who's faster

The real browser war isn't between Microsoft and anyone. It's between Firefox and Google Chrome, jostling to become the aftermarket browser of choice. Yesterday, a Google engineer assured News.com that the company's new open-source browser processes webpages much faster than Mozilla Firefox — "Many times faster. I guarantee you." Mozilla engineers released their own test results that show Firefox with a slight performance edge. But the latest test, run independently by News.com, skews the other way. ... (more)

Alta Data Technologies Moves in to New Technical Facility

Alta Data Technologies (Alta) announced today the relocation to a new, state of the art headquarters in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The new location is a standalone 9000 sq ft building on the Aero Mechanical campus off Rio Rancho Blvd NE. “Over the past year, our growth has shown that our AS15531 (MIL-STD-1553) and ARINC product lines have been well established in the commercial market place. Wide customer acceptance of our PCI, PMC, PCI Express interface cards proves that Alta products are the leading-edge technologies required for aerospace and network applications,” stated Jake Haddock, CTO of Alta. He added, “With our projected growth, it became obvious that we needed to relocate to a larger, state of the art facility and we couldn’t be happier than be on the Aero Mechanical (AMII) campus. AMII is a leader in repair of composite flight surfaces, nacelles and other ... (more)

Gemalto erweitert Angebot an sicheren Linux-basierten Zahlungsterminals

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), der weltweit führende Anbieter digitaler Sicherheitslösungen, hat heute die Erweiterung der Produktreihe seiner Verkaufsstellen-Terminals MagIC3 bekannt gegeben. Das neue MagIC3 -Produkt ist eine kosteneffiziente Lösung für drahtlose Zahlungsvorgänge, die weder ein spezielles Abonnement erfordert noch zusätzliche Kommunikationskosten verursacht. Das bemerkenswert leichte und kompakte MagIC3 W-1 mit einzigartiger Reichweite ermöglicht noch bequemere Kartenzahlungen für Restaurantgäste und Kunden von Verkaufsstellen unter freiem Himmel. Mehrere renommierte Finanzinstitutionen sind derzeit führend in der Implementierung der neuen Zahlungsterminals in Europa und Asien. MagIC3 W-1 ist ein Mitglied der Gemalto-Produktfamilie MagIC3, die auf der LinuxTM-basierten Open&Sec-Technologie; beruht. Die Produktfamilie MagIC3 setzt auf IP-Techn... (more)

Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs hosts event to explore the impact of software on society and to honor the life of Dennis Ritchie - the co-inventor of UNIX®

MURRAY HILL, N.J., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), is to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dennis Ritchie - co-inventor of the UNIX operating system and father of the C programming language, with a special event on Friday, September 7, at its headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120905/NY67505 ) Hosted by Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs, the event will include remembrances from leading thinkers in information, communications and computing technology, including: Al Aho, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, and original member of the Bell Labs Computer Systems Lab where UNIX and the C programming language were invented. Aho co-authored the AWK programming language. Brian Kernighan, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton U... (more)

Tasktop's Mik Kersten Named Finalist For 2012 World Technology Award

NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Technology Network (WTN – www.wtn.net) announced today that Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project, has been named a finalist for a prestigious World Technology Award in the IT Software category. Kersten joins a roster of approximately 50 organizations and 100 individuals in this annual competition deemed by the members of the World Technology Network ("The WTN") to be doing the "most innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance." The World Technology Awards have been presented by the WTN since 2000, as a way to honor those innovators who are the most innovative in science and technology in 20 different categories. Nominees for the 2012 World Technology Awards were selected by the WTN membership (spread out over 40 countries) through an intensiv... (more)

Altera Ships Its First SoC Devices

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the first shipments of its 28 nm SoC devices, which combine a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single device. Altera SoCs include several distinctive features that enable developers in the wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets to create custom SoC variants optimized for system power, board space, performance and cost requirements. The first devices Altera is shipping are low-power, low-cost Cyclone® V SoCs. Altera is demonstrating these SoCs at the ARM Technology Symposium Europe. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121212/SF28063) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101012/SF78952LOGO) "The number of customers who have already committed to using Altera SoCs has ex... (more)

HP Accelerates Enterprises' Path to Big Data Value

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/18/13 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) HP Enterprise Services today announced a new information management and analytics (IM&A;) service designed to help clients rapidly gain increased value from Big Data assets to support their efforts to drive new revenue opportunities, improve efficiency, reduce risk and lower costs. While executives understand the importance of taking command over the variety, velocity and volume of information, many regard their organizations as unable to address the associated challenges. According to global research commissioned by HP,(1) more than one out of two business executives reported that their organizations are not equipped with the right solutions to gain insight from Big Data. In addition, they lack the expertise as well as a cohesive strategy to bring all of the components together to incorporate new and old da... (more)

New Program Funded To Measure Media Impact And Audience Engagement

LOS ANGELES, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- How do we measure the impact of media and journalism on the world around us? In what ways does news engage diverse audiences? And when do stories have the power to connect individuals and inspire change? An ambitious new project aimed at measuring the social impact of media is being launched by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  The Lear Center Media Impact Project is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Announced today, the $3.25 million in funding over the next two-and-a-half years will establish the Lear Center as a hub for best practices, innovation and thought leadership in media metrics. Welcoming the support, USC Annenberg dean Ernest L. Wilson III said, "We're ... (more)