EnterpriseDB's new CEO coming from Redhat
EnterpriseDB, the company providing products based on the open source Postgresql database server, named a new CEO, Ed Boyajian, former Red Hat vice president and general manager of North American sales.
Nuxeo and CapGemini collaboration
Nuxeo announced a partnership with CapGemini. This is part of CapGemini's "OSS partner" initiative. With the agreement, CapGemini will propose Nuxeo support subscriptions of all levels to its customers.
Here is one more example of an Open Source software provider signing an agreement with an traditional service provider.
Funambol provides open source sync for Blackberry users
Funambol has introduced a new version of its open source BlackBerry solution, enabling these devices "to work with consumer email services such as Yahoo!
Profoss OpenOffice.org interviews published
The interviews of the speakers at the Profoss event on "OpenOffice.org in the enterprise" have been published.
Read the interviews of
- Eric Descamps, Project manager at the belgian Post
- Machtelt Garrels, co-founder of OpenDoc Society Belgium,
- Roberto Galoppini
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 released
Although a minor release, version 5.2 brings enhancements mainly in 6 areas:
- Virtualization
- Laptop and Desktop improvements
- Encryption and Security
- Cluster & Storage Enhancements
- Networking & IPv6 Enablement
- Servicability
RedHat knows that such releases bring value to their subscription model, and they apparently work hard to bring quality.
MS Office support for ODF announcement: a reason to rejoice?
Microsoft announced that its next Office Service Pack will bring support for ODF, the standardised format used by OpenOffice which gained support from multiple governments around the world.
The good news is that it will bring the functionality with the Service Pack, but questions remain. What will be the quality of this ODF support? Current MS Office plugins to support ODF (one initiated by Microsoft, the other by Sun) are not perfect. How will the Service Pack compare? Won't this Service Pack eclipse the other plugins even if its quality is mediocre?
Another question: hasn't the competition and lock moved to another level: the content network and management?
Without becoming pessimistic, such announcements raise a lot of questions, and we'd better wait what will be delivered. The EU seems to have the same opinion.
ERP white paper from Smile
Smile, a french company specialised in Free and Open Source solutions, published a white paper on FOSS ERP solutions. Compiere, Adempiere, Neogia, OpenBravo, ERP5, OfBiz, TinyERP are in the solutions covered. The report, sent by mail after registration, is in french and is 115 pages long.
As seen on Toolinux.
OpenBravo gets futher funding
OpenBravo, producer of an ERP solution and a POS solution (from the acquisition of LibrePOS), announced it secured $12M in funding. Partners in this round include the GIMV, "the largest investment company in Belgium".
Overstock data stored with Linux
Overstock.com is using a Linux based storage solution provided by Teradata. The company stores 18Tb of data on a 10 nodes solution.
NYSE relying on RedHat
The New York Stock Exchange-EuroNext is heavily relying on RedHat to run its infrastructure. And the justification is not only cost.
