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Autodesk announced on Monday it is releasing the code for MapServer Enterprise, the company's new Web mapping platform, as open source. A snapshot of the source code is available through the new MapServer Foundation, an independent non-profit organization with the mission of supporting and promoting open source Web mapping.
Actuate saw a bona fide opportunity last year when it came on board the open-source Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer. J2EE programmers had long bemoaned the absence of a native Java reporting solution for Eclipse, the world's most popular Java integrated development environment, and Actuate promised to give them just that, with the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. It now turns out that Actuate's opportunity isn't unique.
Industrial buyers seeking everything from nuts and bolts to sophisticated manufacturing equipment are turning to the Internet nearly twice as often as offline information sources, according to a study of industrial buying and selling behaviors. However, many industrial suppliers do not ensure potential customers can find their sites nor provide the kind of information buyers are seeking, the research indicates.
Mergere gives businesses access to commercially supported open source solutions.
Until recently, middleware for the open-source community meant app servers,
and open-source app servers usually meant JBoss. Today, there are more options.
A group of storage-industry leaders that includes IBM, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates and Sun Microsystems disclosed this week plans to form a new open-source community to build a common platform for managing all brands of storage systems.
Lots of people talk about the growing success of open-source software, says Winston Damarillo, but few recognize that much of that success comes from technical underpinnings that make open source work.
The Free Standards Group, a not-for-profit org that promotes open-source software standards, and the Linux Standard Base workgroup announced Tuesday it formed the LSB Desktop Project.
Big Blue this week plans to contribute software development blueprints to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers make fewer coding mistakes.
Oracle and Zend Technologies began working together in May to develop a PHP 5.0 distribution integrated with the Oracle database client library.
The popular open-source Java business rules engine known as Drools will soon become part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System, says Pierre Fricke, JBoss's director of product management.
On Tuesday, JBoss and Microsoft announced plans to enhance the interoperability between JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) and Microsoft Windows Server products and to increase JBoss support for the Windows Server operating system.
ClearNova this week introduced ThinkCAP JX, a rapid application development platform that allows developers to build intuitive Web-based applications.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is promoting an Enterprise Open Standards policy that advocates using open-source office applications while at the same time it sets guides for moving to a service-oriented architecture.