On yet another application review with a prospective client the issue of potentially troublesome data entity relationships came up.  A number of our clients are existing QuickBase users who have made an initial attempt to design their applications and find that some assistance is needed.  The first thing we look at to understand their application requirements are the data entity relationships. This is done in the context of both their existing application as well as their general business requirement because often applications are not correctly designed to support the structure of the business information. One of the most common mistakes we see is when application designers build inflexible structures into their applications because of a lack of understanding of relational data.  During the client call mentioned above we saw that they had set up a table of Projects... (more)

VMOps Offers Free Webinar with VISI on Building Infrastructure Clouds for Hosting Providers

VMOps: WHO:     Shannon Williams, vice president, business development, VMOps Jason Baker, CTO, VISI   WHAT: Cloud computing is redefining the hosting industry. Large cloud providers are adding hundreds of new servers every month, as customers embrace pay-as-you-go plans for private, elastic infrastructure cloud services. For smaller hosting providers implementing a computing cloud no longer requires years of development and major capital investments. New technologies make becoming a cloud provider as easy as delivering virtual private server (VPS) or shared hosting services. By attending this webinar you will learn: -- How to build a computing cloud using commodity servers, networking and storage -- Why customers prefer an HA-enabled Cloud Server to a traditional VPS -- How open source software is at the heart of the cloud revolution -- Different business models fo... (more)

BearingPoint, Black Duck Software Announce Executive Webinar Analyzing Results of Survey Regarding Automotive Industry's Use of Free and Open Source Software

BURLINGTON, Mass. and FRANKFURT, Germany, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of a recent survey of the European automotive industry will reveal insights regarding the pervasiveness of open source use, its benefits and challenges. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111013/NE85619LOGO) Survey results will be shared in an executive webinar on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 11:30 a.m.  The webinar will provide important insights, including: How and why the automotive industry is looking to FOSS as a source of differentiation and competitive advantage The importance of proper governance and compliance processes, and key factors to consider when creating these processes The level of engagement automotive companies have within the broader open source community Conducted by European-based management consultancy BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk... (more)

Expert System Announces Integration With Apache Solr for Enterprise Search

MODENA, ITALY -- (Marketwire) -- 01/23/13 -- Expert System, the semantic software company, today announced the full integration of its Cogito® semantic platform with the Apache Solr(TM) open source enterprise search platform. Through the integration with Cogito, organizations using Solr will be able to enhance their technology investment by delivering faster, more precise access to big data and enterprise content. Cogito exceeds the limits of traditional search and provides a deep understanding of words by fully understanding their meaning in context. Backed by a powerful semantic network enhanced by vertical knowledge for the most important sectors (finance, security, oil and gas, etc.), Cogito ensures higher precision and recall than traditional systems. The goal of enterprise search is to be able to ensure quick and effective access to content regardless of form.... (more)

Opscode Momentum Surges As Chef Community Unites at #ChefConf 2013

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Opscode®, the foundation for the coded business, is hosting its second annual user conference, #ChefConf 2013, beginning today in San Francisco. A sell-out crowd of more than 700 attendees has gathered at the Hyatt Embarcadero for two days of technical sessions, leadership sessions, workshops, and presentations from innovators at Disney, Facebook, Forrester Research, General Electric, Nordstrom, and many more about using Opscode Chef™ as the automation platform for the coded business. #ChefConf will focus on actionable strategies and best practices for automating IT infrastructure and application delivery, providing businesses of all sizes with the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. Opscode today announced it is collaborating with both IBM (see separate release) and Microsoft in creati... (more)

NoSQL Leader Couchbase Raises $25 Million to Fund Enterprise Growth

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/28/13 -- Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, today announced that it has closed a $25 million Series D funding round led by Adams Street Partners and joined by existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Ignition Partners. The financing comes after explosive growth in 2013 with sales growing by more than 400% and several high-visibility competitive wins at enterprise accounts. Couchbase will use the funds to further expand international sales and marketing operations and support key strategic product initiatives, which will be announced in the coming weeks. Funding Highlights The funding comes on the heels of the release of Couchbase 2.0 in December 2012. The release added document database features as well as cross... (more)

ownCloud Closes $6.3 Million Series A Funding Round

LEXINGTON, Mass., March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ownCloud, Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular file sync and share open source project, today announced it has closed a $6.3 million series A funding round, led by Devonshire Investors and existing investor General Catalyst Partners and joined by customers and existing angel investors. John Raguin, managing director, Devonshire, will join the company's board where he previously served as a board advisor. As employees sync, share and store more and more sensitive company data on consumer-grade file sync and share apps, enterprises face significant privacy, governance, regulatory and security exposure. ownCloud offers businesses an enterprise-grade, on-premises file sync and share alternative to protect sensitive corporate data. "We are very excited about ownCloud's penetration into the enterprise file sync ... (more)

The i-Technology Right Stuff

Related Links: Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?" Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!   In alphabetical order the nominees are:   Tim Berner... (more)

Java Developer's Journal Exclusive: 2006 "JDJ Editors' Choice" Awards

The editors of SYS-CON Media's Java Developer's Journal are in a unique position when it comes to Java development. All are active coders in their "day jobs," and they have the good fortune in getting a heads-up on many of the latest and greatest software releases. They were asked to nominate three products from the last 12 months that they felt had not only made a major impact on their own development, but also on the Java community as a whole. The following is a list of each editor's selections and the reason why they chose that product. Joe Winchester Desktop Java Editor SwingLabs SwingLabs is an open source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual appeal. It is an umbrella project for various open source initiatives sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community... (more)

Eclipse Special: Remote Debugging Tomcat & JBoss Apps with Eclipse

To view our full selection of recent Eclipse stories click here Over the last several weeks I've received a few questions about remote debugging with Eclipse. I posted about this on my other blog back in February here but with not enough info for others to follow. If you go look at that blog entry you will see that I looked into 'in eclipse' debugging but did not find it satisfactory. So without further ado here is how I use Tomcat, JBoss, and Eclipse to build and debug applications. Whichever platform you are using (Tomcat or JBoss) you need to start them with the JPDA debugging enabled. For Tomcat this is very easy. In the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory there is a script catalina.sh. If you provide the arguments 'jpda start' tomcat will startup and listen on port 8000 for a debugger connection. With JBoss its only slightly more complicated. Basically you need to speci... (more)

Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project

The Web Tools Project (WTP) by the Eclipse Foundation is a set of open source tools that substantially reduce the time required for the development of Web applications, EJBs, and Web services. The WTP's current version is 0.7.1 and version 1.0 is coming later this year. The framework provides wizards and tools to create EJBs, Web components such as servlets and JSPs, and Web services using the Axis engine. It also provides source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD, WSDL, J2EE project builders, models, and a J2EE navigator; a Web service wizard, explorer, and WS-I Test Tools; and database access, query tools, and models. In this article I'll show you how to develop and deploy a JSP Web application with WTP in less than an hour. I'll also cover the creation and deployment of a basic servlet and editing JSP ... (more)