Open Source Weblog: November 2007 Archives

Press Association Rolls Out Nuxeo ECM
November 27, 2007

The Press Association, the UK’s national news association, is rolling out Nuxeo’s open source enterprise content management platform to improve the way it distributes digital content. And to think just a few weeks ago we weren't even familiar with Nuxeo.

PA was looking to replace its old bespoke system with something that could handle multimedia content and reduce the number of keystrokes it took for journalists to post stories.

Nuxeo provided a happy medium for the company between entirely building a system from scratch and buying an off-the-shelf package requiring a lot of customization.

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Posted by Jason Stamper on 05:39 PM | Comments (0)

Zoho Changes Gears To Take Google

As I discovered in my recent Q&A with the head of Google Applications and Enterprise, Dave Girouard, Google is banking on the help of the open source community in applying its open source Google Gears to its applications to give them offline capability.

For hosted applications, the ability to work offline is obviously quite key for those who are not constantly connected to the Internet: those who occasionally catch a plane, take a bath and so on.

Anyway it seems one of Google’s rivals in the hosted office apps space, Zoho, has stolen a march on Google as far as offline word processing is concerned – the latest enhancement to its Zoho Writer enables users to view and edit Zoho Writer documents offline.

In an irony that will not be lost on Google, Zoho has actually used the Google Gears technology to give it the offline capability. What a cheek!

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Posted by Jason Stamper on 11:36 AM | Comments (0)

What inroads has Linux really made on the desktop?
November 14, 2007

In our exclusive interview with Novell’s CEO Ron Hovsepian recently, he proclaimed that in his turnaround plan for the company, “One thing we decided was to develop desktop to data center Linux.” So why is there still so little Linux as a desktop OS?

Matthew Aslett over at analysts The 451 Group asked exactly that question over here recently – and as you can see from the comments on that blog, there is some disagreement over just how much penetration Linux has on the desktop!

So who’s seen some official-looking stats for just how much Linux there is on the desktop? Share them if you can, and in the meantime I’ll see what I can dig out that may help put the argument to rest for the time being…

Posted by Jason Stamper on 12:38 PM | Comments (0)

What took you? Red Hat makes Java contribution "more official"
November 06, 2007

Red Hat, which says it has always supported Sun’s attempts to build an open source community around Java, has made its support a little more official by signing Sun’s contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-led open source projects by all Red Hat engineers.

This goes to show that the father of Java, James Gosling, was being a little pessimistic when I interviewed him back in March this year: he said that the open sourcing of Java would make little difference to the range and depth of people helping to support its ecosystem because it was already a community process before it was open sourced.

Red Hat has also signed Sun’s OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement. “This agreement gives the company access to the test suite that determines whether an implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) platform that is derived from the OpenJDK project complies with the Java SE 6 specification,” the firm noted.

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Posted by Jason Stamper on 11:47 AM | Comments (0)

Apple Macs not immune from viruses? Whatever next?
November 05, 2007

IT security specialists Global Secure Systems (GSS) have warned Apple Mac users to revisit their IT security software and manually update it, following the arrival of the first serious Trojan Horse for the Apple Mac.

GSS' warning comes as Intego, an Austin, Texas-based Mac security firm, has reported the first serious Trojan to affect the Apple Mac platform.

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Posted by Jason Stamper on 03:38 PM | Comments (0)