) 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
) April 10, 2009 -- Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software and webmail, has formed a partnership with NameCheap, one of the largest domain registrars in the world. All NameCheap's customer will have easy access to Open-Xchange's Ajax based OX Webmail and OX PIM packages for business class webmail.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
The open-source CFML processing engine Open BlueDragon (OpenBD) announced the availability of simple, graphical installers for both Windows and Linux systems to compete with PHP, Ruby, and ASP.NET.
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."
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.
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.
) 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.
The Linux Box will provide Opsera Enterprise edition subscriptions and services to organizations across the U.S. It will also continue to offer services for the Opsview Community edition.
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.
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.
