Fusis Group®, a leading provider of managed IT service, has announced they have signed an agreement to become an MSP Alliance member.

) September 29, 2008 --Today, XMission Internet announced that it will begin upgrading all of its customers currently using XMission Mailcenter to its new Hosted Email service, powered by Zimbra™. Customers will not experience any downtime during the transition, nor will they lose any email correspondence.

According to XMission President & Founder, Pete Ashdown, this upgrade to Zimbra version 5.0.9 will vastly improve service for businesses who host their email with XMission.
"After careful consideration of a number of hosted email platforms, XMission selected Zimbra for its sheer number of features without compromising ease of use."

) May 29, 2009 -- New personalized reports developed exclusively by 01.com enable the person responsible for administrating email for an organization (often not a professional email administrator) to get reports themselves and understand at a glance:

• features,
• privileges,
• settings,
• status,
• quotas and
• usage of their
• users,
• resources and
• legal compliance archives.

Small sample of the 01.com Zimbra Cloud Hosting Report.

the misconceptions about how to get the best messaging solution at the best price. Messaging used to be just a sideline to doing business...It is now an essential part of everyday operations.

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.

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.

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

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

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:

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 28, 2008 -- Unison Technologies today announced the first fully-unified communications software offering for schools and colleges. Unison, the unified communications software, will be available with substantial discounts for educational establishments, making it affordable even on tight budgets. More information about the offering is available at http://www.unison.com/education.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

) 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.

) December 3, 2008 -- Dimdim, the world's open source web conferencing company, today launched its new Dimdim 4.5 edition and simultaneously released the complete source code to the open source community. With this release, Dimdim officially exits its beta phase while introducing significant new customer-requested features designed to enable businesses, organizations and consumers to cut the costs of their expensive legacy conferencing products while enjoying improved performance, openness and ease of use.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Living-e AG announced that it is offering its successful content management system webEdition 6 as open source software as of today. Living-e is proud to also extend professional services support by the professional developer team to end-users and freelancers as needed. (PRWeb Nov 3, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1555684.htm

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

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.

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.

The Partnership will allow Intelestream to provide enhanced CRM functionality to the North American Open Source CRM market.

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

Integrating CRM data with Collaboration Platform Opens Knowledge Sharing Potential.

) 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.

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

Company to Conduct 3rd Annual Survey on Open Source Systems Management Trends.

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

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.