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Aggregated Open Source Support Model Evolves as OpenLogic Unveils Support/Sales Partnership Program

BROOMFIELD, CO -- 07/08/08 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced a new vendor partnership program designed to enhance OpenLogic's support offerings. The partnership allows leading commercial open source software vendors to provide support for their projects to OpenLogic customers. OpenLogic also announced that EnterpriseDB and JasperSoft have joined this new partner program.

Aggregated Open Source Support Model Evolves as OpenLogic Unveils Support/Sales Partnership Program

BROOMFIELD, CO--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 8, 2008 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced a new vendor partnership program designed to enhance OpenLogic's support offerings. The partnership allows leading commercial open source software vendors to provide support for their projects to OpenLogic customers. OpenLogic also announced that EnterpriseDB and JasperSoft have joined this new partner program.

Aggregated Open Source Support Model Evolves as OpenLogic Unveils Support/Sales Partnership Program

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OpenLogic Releases Survey on Enterprise Open Source Support

OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey of corporate open source users regarding open source support.

OpenLogic Releases Survey on Enterprise Open Source Support

BROOMFIELD, CO -- 07/22/08 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey of corporate open source users regarding open source support.

OpenLogic Releases Survey on Enterprise Open Source Support

BROOMFIELD, CO--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 22, 2008 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey of corporate open source users regarding open source support.

OpenLogic Releases Survey on Enterprise Open Source Support

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/22/08 -- OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey of corporate open source users regarding open source support.

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.

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OpenLogic pushes partnerships on open source support

OpenLogic Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software, wants other open source software developers to shake hands over a partnership program that will give it control over an alliance of support services for other vendors' products.

OSU Open Source Lab Grows With Support From Google

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University Open Source Lab’s capacity to support open source projects is being expanded through a donation of $300,000 from Google. That increases the company’s cumulative support of academia's leading open source development center to $750,000.

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.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 15, 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management software and support services, announces that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year's Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year’s Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Survey: enterprises evolve how they buy open source support

OpenLogic, a provider of open source solutions has announced the results of a survey of corporate open source users regarding open source support.

Microsoft gives Apache cash to promote open source

Microsoft expanded its support for the open-source community on Friday by giving money to the Apache Software Foundation, the first time it has given money to the long-standing open-source project. Microsoft also said it is contributing code to support a PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) project and committing to offer royalty-free specifications for Windows Server and .Net Framework protocols as part of its expanded support for the open-source community.

CRM Open Source's Kineo To Offer Services, Support

Back in 2005, an ATOS survey found that 60 percent of businesses were planning to use some form of open source software in their business. Since that survey, open source software products have been widely adopted. Open source Web site development tools such as Joomla are common, and BT recently announced that it will be offering all of its clients the open source CRM system SugarCRM (News - Alert) rather than Siebel.

Entries Invited for the 2009 Open Source Business Award

NUREMBERG, Germany, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Headquartered in Nuremberg, Open Source Business Foundation e.V. (http://www.osbf.de), the European network of the open source sector, is now inviting entries for the 2009 Open Source Business Award. The OSBA is the largest European business plan competition, and is open to all companies, consortia, public authorities and private individuals concerned with innovative solutions that are based on open source software. Participants have until November 30, 2008 to submit their business plans and concepts to win prize money totaling EUR 78,000, coaching offerings by established experts and venture capital financing. The awards ceremony will be held on January 28, 2009, during the "Open Source Meets Business" congress, which publishers Heise Verlag are staging in cooperation with OSBF in Nuremberg.

VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver

billybob2 writes "VIA has released a 113,800 line open source graphics driver with full mode-setting support for CRT, LCD, and DVI devices along with 2D, X-Video, and cursor acceleration. Harald Welte, VIA's open source representative, states that the next step is to add 3D (see preview), TV-out, and hardware codec support while integrating this work with existing open source projects. VIA has pre-installed Linux on a significant portion of the company's latest products, including the EVEREX gPC2, 15.4" gBook, and CloudBook. It has also helped port the open source CoreBoot BIOS (previously LinuxBIOS) to several of its motherboards." VIA seems to be making good on the promise of its open source initiative announced last April.

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.

Opsera and NTT Europe Online Forge Strategic Partnership to Support Open Source Software Solutions for High Growth Start-ups and Enterprises

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsera, a leading UK open source software and services company, today announces a new partnership with NTT Europe Online to provide clients with managed hosting, security and application management services. Opsera designs, develops and supports business systems using a wide range of open source software. This partnership allows Opsera to offer clients a complete managed service solution from a company with over ten years of experience and a proven track record of reliability.

Ingres Open Source Lights the Way at SunPower

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- The sun is shining brighter than ever at SunPower. Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that its open source technology will support the manufacturing of solar power energy. SunPower Corporation, known for its high-efficiency solar power systems, which include solar cells, panels, roof tiles, and multi-megawatt solar power systems, relies on Ingres as the backbone of three mission critical applications, including its manufacturing execution system (MES). The MES manages all of SunPower's production lines within its factories in the United States and Europe. All total, Ingres will support company revenue at SunPower projected to exceed $1 billion in 2008.

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.

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

Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition

There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. This is a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses.

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