Enterprise Open Source Journal
The Open Source Update
Compiled by Raven Zachary
Issue #31, 01 November 2005
Welcome to The Open Source Update from Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ), a weekly news summary focusing on the latest enterprise open source announcements, issues, and trends.
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IN THIS ISSUE
This Week's Top News
Perspectives
Announcements
Upcoming Events
Wit & Wisdom
THIS WEEK'S TOP NEWS
[Note: Enterprise Open Source Journal's Senior Technical Editor & Consulting Industry Analyst Raven Zachary will be at OSBC East in Boston this week. If you are attending OSBC East, copies of Enterprise Open Source Journal will be available near the registration desk.]
EMIC BECOMES CONTINUENT, OBTAINS ADDITIONAL FUNDING. Emic, an open source high availability middleware company, changes its name to Continuent and obtains $5.75 million US in a Series B funding round from Trident Capital, Nordic Venture Partners and Ledstiernan.
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1127
OPENLOGIC NAMES NEW CEO, OBTAINS ADDITIONAL FUNDING. OpenLogic, an open source software company, names Dr. Carl Ledbetter as their new CEO, and announces the addition of UV Partners to their Series A investment round.
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1126
CENTERIS OBTAINS $5 MILLION US FUNDING ROUND, RELEASES BETA.
Centeris, a Linux management software company, obtains $5 million US in its Series A investment round from Ignition Partners, and releases a beta version of its new software.
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1099
OPEN SOURCE COMPLIANCE INSURANCE LAUNCHES. Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), Lloyds underwriter Kiln, and Lloyds broker Miller launch the first-ever open source compliance insurance, covering up to $10 million US in direct losses from non-compliance of open source licenses.
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1123
APACHE WEB SERVER REACHES 50 MILLION SERVERS. Netcraft, an Internet services company, announces in its October 2005 Web Server Survey that Apache Web Server has passed the 50 million server mark.
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1124
PERSPECTIVES
A collection of open source editorials, opinions, and blog entries from around the world.
"Rethinking Open Source Strategy" by Steve Andriole
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1087
"Research: Open source not innovative? Or simply not loud enough about it?" by Matt Asay
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1088
"Devil's Advocate: Twists and turns of open source" by Martin Brampton
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1089
"MySQL CEO: Partnerships will propel OSS into mainstream" by Jan Stafford http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1090
"Open source standards are the story of the year" by Dana Blankenhorn
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1091
"Why do people switch to Linux?" by Tom Adelstein
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1092
"Goldegg" by Seth Gottlieb
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1093
"First Look at SUSE 10.0" by Adam Doxtater
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1094
"The Story of Snort: Past, Present and Future" by Martin Roesch
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1095
"Open Source Is Alive and Well with Commercial Developers" by Jack Germain
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1096
ANNOUNCEMENTS
News, press releases, and announcements from open source vendors, organizations, and projects. Submit your news to update@eosj.com.
Aepona
Aepona Announces Full Complement of JAVA Support
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1097
Alfresco
Alfresco Releases First Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1125
BitRock
BitRock Selected to Participate in OSBC East 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1098
Centeris
Centeris Announces Comprehensive Solution for Managing Linux Servers in Windows Networks
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1099
CodeWeavers
CodeWeavers Debuts CrossOver Office 5.0 Featuring Microsoft Office
2003 Support
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1100
Continuent
Commercial Open Source Solution Provider Continuent Announces Launch and $5.75 Million Round of Funding
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1127
Covalent
Covalent Technologies Announces Strategic Partnership with BEA Systems
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1101
DLT Solutions
Inaugural Red Hat Government Users Conference to Showcase Open Source and Linux; Red Hat and DLT Solutions host one-day government end- users training conference
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1102
Digium
Digium Announces Highest Analog Density Card in Open Source Telephony Market
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1103
Eclipse
Eclipse Foundation Announces Keynotes for EclipseCon 2006
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1104
Google
Google Supports Open Source Initiatives
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1105
IBM
IBM Unveils New Apache Geronimo-Based Software and Support
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1106
Marcus Evans
Open Source in the Enterprise: From Evaluation, Adoption to Implementation and Optimization - Integrating Open Source into Existing IT Platforms
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1107
MySQL
MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1108
ObjectWeb
Members of ObjectWeb's Enterprise Service Bus Initiative Target JBI Support
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1109
OpenLogic
OpenLogic Announces Software Veteran Steven L. Grandchamp as CEO and Closes New Investment From UV Ventures
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1126
Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
Open Source Business Conference Kicks Off on Tuesday, November 1 in Boston http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1110
Open Source Consulting
Open Source Consulting Principal To Address Goldman Sachs Investor Conference
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1111
Open Source Risk Management (OSRM)
First-ever Open Source Compliance Insurance Now Available Through Partnership Between London-Based Lloyd's Underwriter Kiln, Lloyd's broker Miller and Open Source Risk Management
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1123
Open Source Talent
Open Source Job Posting and Project Outsourcing Site Launches
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1112
Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange Announces New Open Source Project for GNOME Evolution Connector
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1113
O'Reilly
JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide: Building and Deploying J2EE in the Real World
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1114
Pingtel
Pingtel Transcends Traditional PBXs by Enabling True, Standards-Based Real Time Communications
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1115
Plone Foundation
Plone Foundation Releases Plone 2.1; The Fastest Growing Open Source Content Management System Releases New Version
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1116
PostgeSQL
Companies Come Together to Fund PostgreSQL Improvements
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1117
Scalix
Momentum Grows for Linux Email Provider Scalix, with Hundreds of New Customers, Thousands of Downloads of Free Version and Industry Accolades
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1118
Sleepycat
Sleepycat Launches New Consulting Packages for Berkeley DB
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1119
Sun
Industry Adoption of Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System Continues to Accelerate http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1120
Wine
The Wine Project Releases Wine 0.9, Declares Its Open-Source Initiative Ready For Commercial Testing
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1121
UPCOMING EVENTS
Advanced Software Law & Practice (Open Source) San Francisco, CA, USA November 3-4, 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1078
Open Source Database Conference 2005
Frankfurt, Germany
November 8-9, 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=724
International PHP Conference
Frankfurt, Germany
November 6-9, 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1122
Gartner Open Source Summit
Orlando, FL, USA
December 7-9, 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1027
ApacheCon US 2005
San Diego, CA, USA
December 10-14, 2005
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1028
Open Source in the Enterprise
San Francisco, CA, USA
January 23-25, 2006
http://www.eosj.com/ccount/click.php?id=1079
WIT & WISDOM
* Some folks are so proud and arrogant that they can strut sitting down.
* Its easy to keep from becoming a bore just praise the person with whom youre talking.
* All men are created equal, but ambition soon separates them.
* Authority makes some people grow, while it makes others swell.
*** This week's Update is sponsored by Continuent ***
Continuent ensures business continuity for the enterprise. With flexible solutions that deliver data availability and scalability, Continuent guarantees your peace of mind and lets you focus on running a successful business. Continuents industry breakthrough middleware works with all major databases. Through the use of database virtualization technology, Continuent solutions even support heterogeneous database environments. Continuent products are compatible with a wide variety of hardware, operating system and application environments. For more information, visit www.continuent.com.
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Hope you're having a good week!
Bob Thomas, Publisher
The Open Source Update is compiled and edited for Enterprise Open Source Journal by Raven Zachary <raven@eosj.com>, Senior Technical Editor and Consulting Industry Analyst for EOSJ, and Blair Thomas <blair@eosj.com>, Online Services Manager for TCI Publishing, Inc.
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