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

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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

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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

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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

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