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Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro to Defend Its Intellectual Property and Use of Open Source Software

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Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro To Defend Its Intellectual Property And Use Of Open Source Software

Basingstoke, UK – 2nd July, 2008 – Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it has filed a countersuit in the Court for the Central District of California against Trend Micro. The countersuit alleges that Trend Micro infringes upon three patents owned by Barracuda Networks and seeks damages and an injunction on sales of the infringing products...

Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro to Defend Its Intellectual Property and Use of Open Source Software

CAMPBELL, Calif. - Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it has filed a countersuit in the Court for the Central District of California against Trend Micro. The countersuit alleges that Trend Micro infringes upon three patents own

Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro to Defend Its Intellectual Property and Use of Open Source Software

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Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater...

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Software, Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, released today its Open Source Security Study which reveals that the most widely-used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. The study validates that Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed.

Barracuda Networks Files Countersuit Against Trend Micro to Defend Its Intellectual Property and Use of Open Source Software

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Barracuda Networks Countersues Trend Micro

"There's some news on the Trend Micro v.Barracuda Networks case. That is the one where Trend Micro sued Barracuda over ClamAV and brought a complaint to the International Trade Commission. Barracuda has just filed a countersuit in California, alleging patent infringement by Trend Micro. They say it's a defensive use of three patents they bought from IBM. Barracuda asks for money damages and an injunction on further sales of infringing Trend Micro products.

Open Source Census Gaining Traction Globally as Enterprises Gain Visibility Into Their Own Open Source Usage

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/16/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced that after its first two months, more than 220,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered. Additionally several organizations have joined The Open Source Census at various levels, including: ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, and OSAlt.com (Open Source as Alternative).

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

SourceLabs Upgrades Open Source Support Tools

Seattle-based SourceLabs, which develops software for helping Linux and open source developers manage their open source software, said this week that it has upgraded its software. According to the firm, it has upgraded its Self-Support Tools software with new features, including automatically tagging hardware compatibility issues. SourceLabs' software is used by companies to gain support for open source software. The firm's software provides access to information about known issues, bugs, and software updates for open source Java and Linux software. Sourcelabs is venture backed by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, and Madrona Venture Group.

Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk

chareverie writes "Fortify Software released a study where they concluded that open source software poses a large security risk to corporations who have implemented it. They reason this by stating that the fault lies within the open source communities and their failure to adhere to minimum security practices. Fortify Software studied 11 open source software packages, where the application server Tomcat was determined to be the best. The other 10 were found to have poor results, with those being Derby, Geronimo, Hibernate, Hipergate, JBoss, Jonas, OFBiz, OpenCMS, Resin and Struts. Jacob West, manager of Fortify's research group, reminds that purpose of the study was 'not to condemn open source software, but rather to point out that the security practices need to improve because open source adoption by enterprises and governments is growing

Open-Source Software: Evolving Toward Broader Acceptance

Open source is assessed for more than half of businesses software acquisitions, according to Saugatuck Technology, a research and consulting firm. A CIO.com survey conducted in April showed that 53 percent of respondents were already using open-source applications in their enterprises and that 44 percent considered open-source applications equally during acquisition processes with proprietary applications. While this may surprise some, most businesses no longer carry the negative perceptions once associated with open-source solutions. The software is in use in some of the world's largest corporations and governments, in some of the most intensive application environments. In addition, open source is easy to acquire within many organizations compared to commercial solutions.

Barracuda Files Countersuit in Trend Micro Patent Case

Barracuda Networks has filed a countersuit against Trend Micro in the US District Court of California, in an effort to protect its open source ClamAV antivirus program from Trend's allegations of infringement.

Black Duck Software Adds C/C++ Open Source Software to Koders.com Code Search Engine

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will enhance Koders

Barracuda bites back at Trend Micro in ClamAV patent lawsuit

Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has filed a countersuit against Trend Micro in an effort to protect the open source ClamAV antivirus program from Trend's allegations of infringement. Barracuda intends to leverage threats of its own patent litigation to force Trend Micro to back down.

Protecode Announces Governance and Intellectual Property Management Software

Protecode announced the general availability of its software development tool for governance and Intellectual Property (IP) management. The latest release enables commercial software developers and open source creators to accelerate managed adoption of open source code in a simple, painless process. Additionally, the software is now available to the Eclipse community for anyone working on an active Eclipse project. Protecode automatically generates records of software content, identifies and reports associated pedigree and licensing information by checking its properties and compliance against an organization's policies, establishing IP ownership and creating a software Bill of Materials (BOM).

Is Open Source Good for the Java Developer?

Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial sponsors of open source projects for a long time, but the recent spate of high-price (for open source, at least) acquisitions of companies with open source products at the core of their business has made a splash in the technology industry. In addition, Sun’s convulsions into the open source world have left the Java landscape decisively in open source territory.

Is Mule Really Open Source?

"Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that 'Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria'. It goes on to describe 10 items under this. Item #6 states that 'The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.'

Actuate Initiates Open Source Advisory Board

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced the formation of an Open Source Advisory Board. Open Source technology industry luminaries Julie Hanna Farris, a seasoned open source technology entrepreneur and Andrew Aitken, CEO of the Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy, are founding members of the board. The board’s mission is to reinforce and extend the leadership and innovation of Actuate’s open source business model, which combines the key elements of open source with the best of enterprise software and to further Actuate’s community contributions and activities.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

BROOMFIELD, CO, Aug 06, 2008 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Jitterbit Named 2008 Best Open Source Software Winner

Oakland, Calif. - Aug. 8, 2008 - Jitterbit, the leading provider of open source integration software, has been recognized as a winner of InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software Awards in the "Best of Open Source Middleware and Platforms: Data Migration" category. Known as the "Bossies," the annual awards recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.

Jitterbit Named 2008 Best Open Source Software Winner

OAKLAND, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/08/08 -- Jitterbit, the leading provider of open source integration software, has been recognized as a winner of InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software Awards in the "Best of Open Source Middleware and Platforms: Data Migration" category. Known as the "Bossies," the annual awards recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.

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