Monday, April 2, 2007
What's More Open, Apache Geronimo or JBoss?
What's More Open, Apache Geronimo or JBoss?
March 30, 2007 - By Sean Michael Kerner
IBM (Quote) is heating up the open source middleware space with a new migration tool for moving from Red Hat's JBoss Application Server to Apache Geronimo.
IBM claims that the Apache model offers greater community collaboration that what JBoss offers, a claim that Red Hat disputes
Read more from this news report @ IT Management
March 30, 2007 - By Sean Michael Kerner
IBM (Quote) is heating up the open source middleware space with a new migration tool for moving from Red Hat's JBoss Application Server to Apache Geronimo.
IBM claims that the Apache model offers greater community collaboration that what JBoss offers, a claim that Red Hat disputes
Read more from this news report @ IT Management
Labels: application-server, competition, ibm, middleware
Open-Source Software Eye Business Intelligence, Analytics
Open-Source Software Firms Take Aim At BI
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
Labels: business-intelligence, ibm, microsoft, oracle
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
Labels: documents, government, ibm, microsoft, sun-microsystems, usa
Sunday, April 1, 2007
IBM Takes Aim at JBoss
IBM Takes Aim at JBoss
Mar 2007
IBM and Covalent Technologies Inc. announced that they have contributed technology to the open-source Apache Geronimo community to help users migrate from JBoss to IBM's Apache-based application server.
IBM announced its plans to enter the open-source application server arena last year when it acquired Gluecode Software Inc. IBM's open-source WebSphere Application Community Edition, based on Apache Geronimo, was built from technology acquired with Gluecode.
Read the full news report from CIO India
Mar 2007
IBM and Covalent Technologies Inc. announced that they have contributed technology to the open-source Apache Geronimo community to help users migrate from JBoss to IBM's Apache-based application server.
IBM announced its plans to enter the open-source application server arena last year when it acquired Gluecode Software Inc. IBM's open-source WebSphere Application Community Edition, based on Apache Geronimo, was built from technology acquired with Gluecode.
Read the full news report from CIO India
Labels: application-server, ibm
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