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Open Source Blog: October 2008 Archives
OSS firm wins massive JBoss contract
October 28, 2008
Champagne corks were popping at Swiss open source content management firm Magnolia, after it won a deal with JBoss.org to underpin its 40 project sites, which attract 20 million views per month.
With over 40 different open source middleware projects to host, Magnolia said it will play a key part in building the project websites for use by the community.
JBoss.org currently uses its own in-house CMS to run the site. However, with the increasingly complex functionality required, maintenance and development of the system was detracting from its core business, JBoss.org said...[click continue reading for comments from JBoss.org's site leader on the motivation for the deal]...
BPM enabled on Google Android?
October 24, 2008
A little birdie tells me their business process management (BPM) company is gearing up to enable on-demand business processes to run on Google’s new Android mobile phone platform. I’m under strict embargo so I can’t reveal who the firm in question is, but I’ll let you know just as soon as I can.
Google of course has a free software developers kit (SDK) available so there’s nothing to stop companies writing new apps for Android or indeed adding hooks to their own components.
The BPM firm in question believes that by breaking business processes down into discrete building blocks, and allowing them to run on the Android platform, business people will be given more power over their processes and indeed the potential to see just how efficiently they are running -- while they are on the move. So I guess we need to coin two new acronyms: MBAM (mobile business activity monitoring) and MBPM (mobile business process management).
Learn more about Android here.
Download Google's Android SDK (currently in beta) here.
Steve Ballmer’s 20 best quotes
October 13, 2008
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer is rarely one to mince his words. Here are his 20 best quotes, as voted for by yours truly.
1. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
2. "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." To USA Today. In the US, the iPhone now has the second highest market share of any phone, at 17%, and is the market-leading smartphone, according to NPD Group.
3. “Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Yeagh!” Ballmer’s most infamous outburst/rabble-rouser on stage, which he has since described as, “a bit emotional”. [YouTube link below.]
4. “We are just gonna keep coming and coming and coming and coming and coming and coming and coming. We are irrepressible.” Ballmer talks about the company’s attempts to wrest the search crown from Google’s head. [YouTube link below.]
5. “It was a friendly disruption.” To the audience after a protester threw eggs at him at a Hungarian University. [YouTube link below.]
Click continue reading for the next 15 quotes.
Sacrilege? Apple’s Wozniak says iPod has had its day
October 10, 2008
In an extraordinary interview, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak, aka Woz, said the iPhone has had its time in the sun.
"The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. Things like that, if you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, kind of die out after a while, " he told The Daily Telegraph...[click continue reading for more of Wozniak's controversial comments]...
How much open source runs on Windows in the enterprise? More than you might think
October 03, 2008
The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, announced that it has found massive open source use on Windows machines...[click continue reading for the stats]...
Students sought for Java competition
IT students are being invited to create a new mobile Java application, in a competition being run by Ricoh and Sun Microsystems Europe. The prize is a little, er, unexpected though: a trip to San Francisco to attend Sun’s JavaOne 2009 user conference.
Other prizes up for grabs include a “sought-after” Sun SPOT – said to be, “an experimental platform to inspire developers to build the next great toy, sensor, communication device etc.”..[click continue reading for more details and how to enter]...
Open source content management built on .NET?
October 02, 2008
Hungary-based software developer Sense/Net has launched Sense/Net 6.0, an open source version of its portal builder and enterprise content management tool, which it claims is the first open source content management system built on Microsoft .NET.
“We want to challenge the status quo with Sense/Net 6.0,” said Sense/Net co-founder Tamas Biro. “Microsoft is here to stay but that doesn’t mean companies can’t take advantage of all that open source has to offer.”
“We’ve moved beyond credible alternatives,” Biro added. “Sense/Net 6.0 represents the best of both worlds. We build on Microsoft’s .NET platform but at the same time we challenge their content management tool, SharePoint. Developers, web designers and IT managers feel imprisoned by proprietary tools and rightfully want to have a choice.”…[click continue reading for more on this entry]…
Progress could get more into open source after Iona buy
October 01, 2008
When Progress Software acquired fellow middleware maven Iona in June this year, it raised the question of whether Progress would continue with Iona's open source FUSE services framework/enterprise service bus -- what with Progress not having dipped a single toe in the open source waters during its 27-year history.
But in an interview with me yesterday, Progress' SVP corporate development and strategy, Jeff Stamen, said the firm could even expand its open source play now that Iona has given it a story there..[click Continue Reading for more on this entry]...
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