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.

TWIKI.NET, provider of commercial open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced that TWiki Enterprise Collaboration Platform developed by TWiki.org community has been named finalist in Bes

TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, today announces the latest release of its Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance (CTVA).

) 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.

) December 17, 2008 -- ICEsoft Technologies and the NetBeans™ Community today announced support of the ICEfaces™ open source Ajax framework in the development and deployment of rich, JavaServer Faces™ (JSF) applications using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and GlassFish™ application server.

With more than 55,000 ICEfaces developers worldwide and more than 1 million downloads, ICEfaces is the leading open source JSF Ajax frameworks for developing Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable.

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.

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.

) September 29, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the NetBeans(TM)
Innovators Grant contest designed to fuel innovation around the NetBeans

According to the SourceKibitzer's management estimates, there are 5 000 active Open Source projects written in Java language out of 50 000 existing ones. For the moment the company has measured the projects of Apache, Codehaus, JBoss and ObjectWeb and counts more than 500 projects.
In sum the database contains over 2,5 millions of measurements, this number increases by 100 000 new items each week. In all SourceKibitzer claims measuring 24 millions of lines of code.

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:

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

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.

) September 18, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the
OpenSolaris(TM) Community Innovation Awards Program, designed to fuel
innovation around OpenSolaris.
The OpenSolaris program included both a contest and a student grant
component and was part of Sun's Open

) September 29, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the OpenJDK
Community Innovators' Challenge designed to fuel innovation around
the OpenJDK project. The contest was part of Sun's Open

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

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.

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.

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

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a preview to the new version of Open-Xchange Server Edition, which facilitates effective teamwork and enables document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.
Open-Xchange offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks and document sharing to provide companies with all the tools needed to facilitate communication and efficient teamwork. Customers can improve communication and teamwork with simple, intuitive tools and intelligent features, such as smart links between calendar appointments, task lists, contacts, documents, bookmarks and knowledge articles.
Unique features of Open-Xchange Server Edition include:

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of open source network, systems and application management software, today announced its Gold Sponsorship of the newly-formed non-profit Twisted Software Foundation (TSF), which provides a venue for individuals and organizations to contribute to the development of open source technologies.

) September 29, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the
GlassFish Community Innovation Awards Contest designed to fuel
innovation around the GlassFish(TM) application server. GlassFish is
based on the reference implementation of Java(TM) Platform, Enterprise
Edition and is one of the leading open source application servers in the
industry today with more than eight million downloads since its release
in May 2005. The contest was part of Sun's Open

) October 7, 2008 -- eTouch SamePage, a dynamic enterprise wiki, today announced it has enhanced its features and capabilities to better support large enterprises with the introduction of SamePage version 4.0.

) September 23, 2009 -- Rivet Logic Corporation, a leading provider of open source content management and collaboration solutions, officially launched Crafter rivet -- an innovative open source Web content delivery framework. Crafter rivet offers Web application developers an open source framework for building content-rich applications, including next generation enterprise Web sites, portals, and social networking platforms.

GATIF™ is a "true" Open Source software portal for OSS (Operational Support Systems) for use by Telecommunication network planners. The first project within the GATIF™ system is Waypoint™.

Open-Xchange Inc., the leading independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a new member.
"Open-Xchange is the only independent, open source collaboration software project and product and as such, we are committed to embracing a fully open development framework that is cross platform and that embraces industry standards," said Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange. "Today, we are inviting the Eclipse community to fully participate in the evolution of our open communication platform and by doing so, offering contributors and industry partners long-term security to continue independent development."

) November 20, 2008 -- CorraTech, the leading global open source software services firm, today announced the launch of two new outsourcing solutions for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) interested in open source. CorraTech also announced it has expanded its Open Source Center of Excellence (OSCOE) and open source development and support operations in India.

So do we. After the Sun TM made its official open source licensing announcement, SourceKibitzer the portal where you can find metrics of Open Source projects written in Java has dared to kibitz the Suns implementation of Java. We started with Java Compiler from OpenJDK community. (See the results here - http://www.sourcekibitzer.org/index.p hp?option=com_skproject&task=view&projectid=javac).

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.

) December 4, 2008 -- ICEsoft Technologies, Inc., December, 02, 2008 - the sponsors of the ICEfaces open source project, announced that a few days ago, an enterprise Java developer somewhere in the world, downloaded the one-millionth copy of ICEfaces! ICEfaces is a leading open source Ajax framework for developing and deploying Java EE applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable.

"One million downloads in two years is a great accomplishment for our community and us", states Brian McKinney, ICEsoft CEO. "We are thrilled with the adoption of ICEfaces and will continue to work hard to maintain ICEfaces as the leading Ajax solution for Enterprise Java."

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.

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.

) 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.

) January 6, 2009 -- Extentech Inc. announces open source Java Alternative to Sharepoint and Google Docs.

Eight-year spreadsheet veteran, Extentech Inc. today released the 1.0 version of ExtenXLS 360 --a document collaboration server for agile businesses.

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.

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source network, systems and applications management software, today announced that it will launch Zenoss Enterprise v2.2--the latest version of its award-winning software--at the Fourth Annual Red Hat Summit in Boston, June 18-19.
We are looking forward to demonstrating Zenoss Enterprise v2.2 to Red Hat users and developers at the Summit, said Bill Karpovich, Zenoss CEO and Co-Founder. In this version, were introducing significant new capabilities that address the specific needs of large enterprises, including performance and scalability enhancements and full cross-platform support, to name a few.

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

) October 13, 2009 -- Liferay, Inc., provider of leading open source enterprise portal and collaboration software, and IT Mill Ltd., provider of the Vaadin rich user interface library, recently announced a new technology partnership. The collaboration will simplify and reduce the cost of developing sophisticated and secure rich user interfaces for Liferay-based enterprise applications.

LOS ANGELES Liferay, Inc., provider of the worlds leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced that it is powering the new website for SpringSource, provider of Spring Framework, the leading Java and Java EE application framework. Formerly called Interface21, SpringSource launched www.springsource.com on the latest version of Liferay Portal as part of its company rebranding efforts.
A strong online presence is essential to an open source business, said Greg Schott, VP of Marketing at SpringSource. The new website is a strategic extension of our product offering that will help us to better serve and interact with our community of users.

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.

) November 19, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced a major new version
of its MySQL Enterprise(TM) subscription service to help corporate users
dramatically improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL(TM) database
applications. MySQL Enterprise subscribers now have access to Sun's new
MySQL Query Analyzer tool for monitoring query performance to accurately
pinpoint and correct problem SQL code -- in addition to MySQL
Enterprise's regular software updates and 24x7 production technical
support.