SAN FRANCISCO - Jaspersoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced the full-production availability of Jaspersofts iReport for NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which has been certified for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.1, and also supports the new beta version 6.5 announced today. In addition, Jaspersoft announced that Jasper for MySQL, the MySQL OEM edition of the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, has been upgraded to version 3 (v3). Together these optimized solutions deliver the most advanced business intelligence development platform for Suns leading open source products.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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™.
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.
BizCubed has proven its commitment and expertise in open source BI by achieving Pentaho Gold Partner status. Businesses can trust in BizCubed's experience to implement effective BI solutions
Business Intelligence consultants expect more interest in open source BI software: BizCubed special offers on Pentaho Training can help companies to find their best strategy.
White Paper explains the benefits of Open Source(OS) technologies and how companies and countries are shifting to using OS in order to lower their hi-tech costs and to stay away from contracts.
ObjectsOnClouds.org announces the launch of the ObjectsOnClouds Open Source Project Initiative. Developer membership is free and is open to anyone worldwide.
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.
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.
Syntext, Inc. (http://www.syntext.com) is happy to announce the release of Serna Free Open Source XML Editor! Serna is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor based on open standards.
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.
Helma is an Open Source Web Application Framework and server-side Javascript environment for fast and efficient scripting and serving of your websites and Internet applications.