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.
Ira Heffan discusses the issues you should consider when reviewing open source licenses.
The Apache Software Foundation has been talking up Synapse, an open-source project to develop an interoperable framework for Web service infrastructure software, including an enterprise service bus, Web services brokers and Web services management products.
Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz has been talking up the company’s Open Media Commons initiative, an open-source community project developing a royalty-free digital rights management standard. Schwartz is calling for immediate cross-industry collaboration in developing an open, safe and business-friendly approach to the free creation, duplication and distribution of digital content.