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.

IPSYSTEMS Inc announced today its strategic partnership with Uplink, the authorized distributor of D-LINK products in the Philippines.
We are very pleased with the partnership, as we feel that D-Link solutions complete the IPSYSTEMS product portfolio in providing networking answers for its small, medium and enterprise business customers, said Patricia Celis, sales and marketing VP of the company. D-Link further complements the server architectures we provide for our customers.
Products to be offered include D-LINK modems, switches, media converter, KVM switches as well as wired and wireless networking solutions such as routers, access point, network adaptors and accessories.

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

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

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.

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.

RedHat is a key technology player in Open Source and Linux. GPLpedia.com is a key business player in promoting , marketing and sales of Open Source Software.

James Christian Martin Group, in association with the technology firm, JCMconnect.com - has launched a new initiative to bring down the cost of computing, and enhance peoples everyday computing experience. The new initiative, called Arcadia Planitia - promotes the use and adoption of free open source software in the home and office.
There are many free, and arguably better alternatives to expensive commercial software. A notable example is the OpenOffice suite, which is free - and feature-wise is comparable to that of Microsoft Office. Arcadia Planitia's main goal is to get more home and office computers running Linux. Linux is a free operating system, which is also free to copy and redistribute.

TARRYTOWN NY - Sterne&Co. LLC is proud to announce the release of an installer for Open-Xchange Server 5 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. This 64-bit installer was developed and funded by Sterne&Co. LLC in response to customer demand. This third party installer is NOT a supported product of Open-Xchange Inc. nor Novell Inc.

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, 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:

Networkz Consulting hires Roy M. Harrell to be the Open Source Specialist. This new addition to the Networkz team brings expertise to Open Source application environments. Harrell brings with him a long list of completed courses for Microsoft Certifications. This includes networking, internetworking, network analysis and administration of all Microsoft Operating Systems and Office Applications. Sean Worcester and Harold Kuppers, co-owners of Networkz Consulting say Harrell’s largest contribution will be his talent in Open Source environments. Networkz Consulting believes Open Source applications are the security based platform of the future. Harrell has advanced skills with Linux KDE and Gnome desktop environments and all OpenOffice applications.

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that the AGPLv3 has received formal approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Funambol led the process of the licenses approval by the OSI after adopting AGPLv3 in November. It was the first company to adopt the license, which closes the ASP loophole.

August 29, 2008 --
Fusis Group®, has announced they have signed an agreement with Zimbra Inc to become Zimbra Solutions Partner.
Zimbra chose Fusis Group® as an official Partner in the UK due to Fusis’ notable Linux, Infrastructure, software & Open Source expertise. The alignment allows us to work closely with Zimbra which highlights our pervasive commitment to open source solutions & drive to be a leading player in the Linux market.

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.

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

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.

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.

Leading Open Source Management Provider adds Deep Linux/Unix Monitoring and Eases Deployment Overhead.

New Services Simplify Migration, Tuning and Management of Open Source to Maximize Cost Savings and Productivity

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source network, systems and applications management software, today announced availability of the Zenoss Core Stack, point-and-click installers for leading Linux platforms including Ubuntu Linux, Red Hats Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core, CentOS, Debian, OpenSUSE and Novells SUSE Enterprise.
Our goal from the beginning has been to give IT administrators greater control and to make their jobs easier, said Erik Dahl, Zenoss Core project founder and CTO. The stack installers take us one step further with hassle free installation and broad platform choice.

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

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.

Joint open source project offers the first end-to-end open source BI, ETL, and data warehouse.

Unified MBX Combines Cellular FMC Software with Open Source Telephony for
Low-Cost, Hardware-Free Mobile Unified Communications

) January 20, 2009 -- Astaro (http://www.astaro.com), leading vendor of network security appliances, today announced that it has been named one of the top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009 by Linux Magazine. This list features vendors that are best positioned in the coming year to spur Linux and Open Source adoption while delivering on the immediate needs of the marketplace.

Astaro Named One of Linux Magazine's Top 20 Companies to Watch In 2009

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.

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).

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Scalix, the open source e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux. Written by a renowned Linux author Markus Feilner, this book teaches users to install, configure and administer the Scalix Collaboration Platform.
Scalix: Linux Administrator's Guide will help users to set up, implement, and manage both the free open-source Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition of Scalix Collaboration Platform one of the most widely used groupware servers for email, group calendaring, and messaging on Linux.
Scalix can be used very easily by beginners; however, strategies and administrative tasks are difficult to learn and this book will help users to master them all.

Research and analysis indicate that software prevalence has changed the nature of "open source" (PRWeb Dec 18, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1763654.htm

Leader in Console Server Solutions recognized with Sun, Novell, Red Hat, as top open source company in the channel.

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.

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.

Releases 2009 Coverity Scan Open Source Report.

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

Veda Informatics have launched www.open-source-developers.com, to offer website development services using open source technologies. It is to be focused on the needs of individuals and small businesses.

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.

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.

) March 30, 2009 -- Open Systems, Inc., a single source provider of TRAVERSE® and OSAS® accounting, CRM, eBusiness, not for profit, manufacturing and distribution software, and FacetCorp, a leading provider of VoIP PBX business phone systems and networking solutions, today announce that they have teamed to provide an IP-PBX solution to TRAVERSE and OSAS users.