REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it will preview its new ad-based open source mobile email solution at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 1114. The company will also demonstrate a new version of its award-winning mobile email and PIM sync software on the latest mobile devices and platforms, including Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and more. Funambol will be located at stand #1J46 in Hall 1.

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award from the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as part of an evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the first day of this week's conference.
Funambol was chosen by an expert jury representing a global cross-section of leading mobile operators, search engines, online portals and wireless startups. Funambol presented its ad-funded mobile email solution and discussed its recent market traction of being deployed commercially at customers with a combined subscriber count of over 300 million users.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol Inc., the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today introduced the release of Funambol v7, a major new version of its flagship software. Funambol v7 includes enhancements to the company's mobile clients, portal, server, software development kit (SDK), system management and admin capabilities. Many new features are included in the Community Edition, the open source version of Funambol, which can be downloaded at https://www.forge.funambol.org/download/. Several premium capabilities, primarily those required for large-scale deployment at service providers, portals and mobile operators, are only in Funambols commercial Carrier Edition.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that FuseMail, LLC, an innovative provider of outsourced email, has selected its push email and PIM sync solution for deployment to 200,000 small and medium business (SMB) customers. FuseMail selected Funambol due to the benefits that an open source push email solution provides: broad device support, robust capabilities and superior value. FuseMail will provide its SMB users with the ability to access email on a wide variety of smart and feature phones, including BlackBerries and Windows Mobiles. FuseMail will also enable users to sync PIM data (e.g.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, today announced a partnership to enable operators and service providers to generate significant revenue from mobile email for the mass market.
The ad-based mobile email solution will shift content subsidization from mobile users to advertisers. It reflects the growing influence of mobile users, which is an increasing trend in 2008. It will help operators and services providers realize a significant portion of the $5 billion to $11 billion that analysts predict will be spent annually on mobile advertising within five years.

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA KnowledgeTree, the leading provider of Open Source document management software for small to medium-sized organizations and departmental users, today announced the availability of KnowledgeTree Open Source Edition 3.5 licensed under the new GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.
"The new GNU GPL version 3 is modern, well-structured and a significant achievement for the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We believe that it will provide a strong mechanism for the KnowledgeTree open source community to co-create and share document management functionality, " said Daniel Chalef, KnowledgeTree COO.

BROOMFIELD, Colo.OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced year-end statistics on enterprise open source adoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers.
Key Trends for 2007:
Increased adoption of open source: On average, enterprises reported using 94 different open source packages, up 26 % from 75 in 2006.

Linux company IPSYSTEMS Inc announced today the beginning of its month-long celebration of the company's eighth year in the Philippine open source industry.
Our eight years in the business has been marked by an increasing number of Philippine small and medium sized enteprises (SMEs) being educated and knowledgable on Linux, and actually making use of open source software to help them achieve their business goals. We feel very happy with this achievement, as this has always been our mission. said Patricia B. Celis, VP for sales and marketing.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the availability of OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) Enterprise Edition, the industrys first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for comprehensive sourcing and governance of open source in the enterprise.

EEI Corporation, one of the Philippines' leading construction companies, has opted to shift to Linux for their operating system (OS), joining several other industry giants in the country who have already turned to open source.
The firm initially used proprietary systems for both OS platforms and various application packages utilized in its operations. However, due to increasing costs of licensing, the company started considering open source applications in order to minimize expenses.
Other concerns, such as virus infection and the increasing cost of hardware also became factors as to why we decided to use Linux, said Mr. Andy S. Sarmiento, assistant vice president for the MIS department.

) September 14, 2009 -- WaveMaker Software™, the only Open-source Platform as a Service (Open PaaS), announced the release of WaveMaker 5.2. This release introduces one-click deployment to Amazon EC2, making WaveMaker the most easy-to-use cloud development solution.

With WaveMaker 5.2, building cloud applications is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Leverage existing assets: WaveMaker can re-use existing data, web services and code.

2. Create self-service user interface: WaveMaker's client framework enables end-users to do their own configuration.

3. One-click cloud deployment: WaveMaker's one-click deployment manager moves application directly to Amazon EC2.

Improvements to WaveMaker 5.2

The Paragent IT management application, known for its sophisticated web-based interface and ease-of-use, eschews the traditional complaint of open source software being difficult to use, or only for those comfortable at the command-line. This isnt a half-hearted move, said Tim Ritchey, CEO of Paragent. The open source community is getting the same code we run on our production servers. Paragent is hosting the open source project on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/paragent. The open source code is available free for download by anyone.

) May 14, 2009 -- WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced simplified pricing and licensing for the just-announced version 5.0 of its WaveMaker development platform. Now web developers can get started with WaveMaker Enterprise Edition for only $500 including a full year of software updates.

WaveMaker also announced that it has adopted the Apache license for deployment of projects built with the WaveMaker Community Edition, simplifying licensing for the more than 10,000 members of WaveMaker's open source community.

OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced record revenue for 2007 as enterprise demand for open source management and governance solutions increases. In 2007, OpenLogic delivered record revenues, showing increases in all categories, including new customer, expansion and renewal revenue.

) May 5, 2009 -- ICEsoft™ Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of open source enterprise Java technologies and sponsor of the award winning ICEfaces® open source project, today announced a new addition to its open source product portfolio. ICEpdf®, ICEsoft's Java PDF library and engine, is now available under the MPL open source license.

ICEpdf is a lightweight open source Java PDF rendering library that can be easily integrated within any Java-based client application or deployed on a server in headless mode as a PDF servlet (JSP or JSF). ICEpdf is ideal for providing PDF viewing and navigation as well as PDF content conversion and extraction without the hassles of Java-to-native integration issues.

NORFOLK, VA xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, announced the free and open source PostBooks Edition of its xTuple ERP product recently passed the 100,000 download milestone on the SourceForge.net open source hosting portal. The company also announced that a beta release of the all-new Version 3 of its product is now available for testing.
In addition to the 100,000 downloads, our upcoming version 3.0 is another major milestone for xTuple, said Ned Lilly, CEO of xTuple. While weve had daily builds available for some time, this beta release includes sample databases and upgrade scripts. Were eager to get this into the hands of the developer and user communities.

NORFOLK, VA xTuple, the leader in open source enterprise resource planning software, is pleased to announce that the current shipping release of its xTuple Applications the OpenMFG Enterprise Resource Planning Suite and the PostBooks free and open source edition have been certified for use on Apples new Mac OS X Leopard operating system.

) December 9, 2008 -- WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced WaveMaker Cloud Edition. WaveMaker Cloud Edition is the first open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for cloud computing. WaveMaker Cloud Edition lets anyone quickly build great-looking web applications that deploy to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2).

"WaveMaker eliminates proprietary lock-in for developing cloud applications," said Christopher Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "Now anyone can quickly and easily create and deploy web applications on-site or to the cloud."

BROOMFIELD, Colo. - OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced that the number of certified open source packages available in the OpenLogic Certified Library surpassed 400. In addition, OpenLogic broadened functionality of OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) Enterprise Edition, the industrys first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for comprehensive sourcing and governance of open source in the enterprise.
OpenLogic Expands Certified Library, Adds Open Source Comparison Matrix

) June 29, 2009 -- WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced version 5.1 of its WaveMaker development platform. This version incorporated a number of suggested enhancements from the 10,000-strong WaveMaker developer community.

Business Intelligence consultants expect more interest in open source, open standards BI software in times of economic downturn. As companies try to save money, open source BI provides an effective alternative to expensive proprietary software. Lower IT spending not only delivers immediate savings but also secures higher competitiveness in the long term.

QuickLicense 3.0 empowers developers to protect and manage any software license for Mac or Windows applications. The product includes an API for complete developer control and the AddLicense tool to wrap compiled applications within a protective license with no programming required.

GPLpedia.com has released the latest version on Oct 23rd-- Crusader of Open Source Software. GPLpedia.com has over 530 Open Source Software's and over 5000 demo's, documentations and downloads.

Leading Provider of Open Source Collaboration Software Among the Best Positioned to Spur Linux and Open Source Adoption in Coming Year.

BROOMFIELD, CO - 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.
Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic, presented a status of the Census results Wednesday before the 9:00 a.m. Oracle keynote at LinuxWorld.
Firefox ranked as the most installed open source project. Zlib, Xerces, Xalan, and Wget are the second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Participants span a wide variety of company sizes, geographies, and industries.
Main themes found by The Open Source Census revealed in today's presentation are:

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki.
TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can significantly reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for a SQL like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications.
This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun FireTM T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTekTM 5320 NAS Gateway System contributed by Sun Microsystems.

CHICAGO, GlobalComm 2006 OpenClovis Inc. (previously Clovis Solutions, Inc.) today announced the OpenClovis Application Service Platform (ASP) and OpenClovis Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the telecommunications industrys first open source, carrier grade application service platform and development environment. OpenClovis is demonstrating its new solutions this week in booth #38075, at GlobalComm 2006, June 5th to 7th, McCormick Place, Chicago, and the products will be generally available later this month.
Separately, OpenClovis also today announced the first deployment of OpenClovis ASP on the Ensemble2 application platform from Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (see release at www.openclovis.com).

September 11, 2008 --
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 28, 2008 TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki.
TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can significantly reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for a SQL like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications.
This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun FireTM T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTekTM 5320 NAS Gateway System contributed by Sun Microsystems.

TARRYTOWN, NY Open-Xchange Inc., the only remaining independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced it will release all server components, installation and administration tools under the General Public License (GPL). Now, the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration server is open to full community involvement, thereby enabling industry partners, and community members to extend the Java-based platform beyond traditional groupware functionality.

VMukti releases the new, intensely tested and more stable version on the Source Forge, the largest Open Source applications and Software Directory.

Software companies now have a simple solution to activate, release and restore software licenses with Excel Software's WebActivation. WebActivation is a flexible set of Windows executable and ASP files placed on a company web site to activate software licenses configured by QuickLicense. Software vendors issue serial numbers that control how many computers can run a software license. Users can easily and securely move a license between computers.

Excel Software is pleased to announce an innovative new tool in the QuickLicense product to protect and license Windows and Macintosh software. A software vendor can now drag and drop an application onto the AddLicense desktop icon to wrap it with any license configured from QuickLicense. A protected application is generated in seconds using the original application icon and no programming required.
QuickLicense 2.2 can be used to configure and manage almost any kind of software license including time or execution limited Trial editions, machine or name activated licenses or software subscriptions. All Windows computers from 98 through Vista are supported. The Mac OS X edition has Universal Binary support for PPC and Intel processors.

Company's Open Source Authentication Software To Be Delivered with Complementary Solutions.

Coverity Open Source Strategist David Maxwell Joins Open Source Licensing Debate with Eclipse Foundation and Alfresco on August 31st.

Coverity Open Source Strategist David Maxwell Joins Open Source Licensing Debate with Eclipse Foundation and Alfresco on August 31st

The Linux Box is now part of Open Source for America, a unified voice for the promotion of open source in the U.S.

) March 1, 2009 -- OW2 Consortium, the open source middleware community, is organizing its first Annual Conference on April 1-2 in Paris. With "Open Source for the Computing Infrastructure" as its central theme, the conference will present some of the latest developments in enterprise computing and will demonstrate the maturity of open source for the enterprise information system infrastructure.

) February 9, 2009 -- Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation.

On February 5, 2009 Igor Schegolev, the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, and other industry leaders.

PORTLAND, Ore. Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), which introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies to business communities facing common IT challenges, today announced it is partnering with CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development solutions for distributed organizations.
CSI will use CollabNets development platform to facilitate collaboration among its customers to share the cost of meeting the same compliance, regulatory and public service requirements.

TARRYTOWN, NY - Open-Xchange Inc. today announced the availability of an updated and extended evaluation version for its "Out of the Box" email and collaboration solution, Open-Xchange Express Edition. Evaluators get a free License Key that ensures updates and fixes through February 29, 2008.
Launched in July 2007, Open-Xchange Express Edition is full featured collaboration software designed to improve communication and teamwork in small businesses. The product does not require a licensed operating system or any other software prior to installation. Open-Xchange Express Edition transforms a bare metal computer or a virtual machine into a fully-functional email and groupware server integrating the increasingly popular Ubuntu operating system.