The most recent Open Source articles from IT Week

ClusterScale unveils database appliance and load-balancing VM

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-09T15:13:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 15:13:00

ClusterScale launches in the UK with two new products

ClusterScale has officially launched in the UK with the introduction of two new products; ClusterLoad ESX, a load balancing virtual appliance for VMware environments; and ClusterMirror, a database appliance providing...

Xandros acquires Linspire

David Neal — 2008-07-02T12:32:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 12:32:00

Linux firms Xandros and Linspire unite their distribution systems

Xandros, a provider of OEM Linux solutions announced today its purchase of Linspire, which develops desktop operating systems. The deal will add to Xandros' roster, which already includes desktop and...

ODF supports EC calls for more open formats

David Neal — 2008-06-13T11:09:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Friday 13 June 2008 at 11:09:00

The European Commissioner for competitiveness wants more open documents

The Open Document Format Alliance has welcomed calls from Europe to stop IT vendors from "locking" users into document format standards....

Labs report : Office rival raises its game

Dave Bailey — 2008-05-22T12:46:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Thursday 22 May 2008 at 12:46:00

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta has better Mac and Microsoft Office support

The OpenOffice.org project has released its first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the next version of its free-to-download office application suite....

Microsoft opens arms to Linux

IT Week Staff — 2008-05-02T10:56:00.000Z

IT Week Staff, IT Week, Friday 2 May 2008 at 10:56:00

Commercial imperitive to strong for Redmond to ignore

Many IT experts will check the date to make sure it is not the first of April when they hear that Microsoft is to support Linux servers in a beta...

Ubuntu clears path to enterprises

David Neal — 2008-04-22T00:00:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Tuesday 22 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Desktop and server editions of Ubuntu OS are targetted at enterprise users

Linux vendor Ubuntu has made two announcements pitching itself firmly in the direction of enterprise open-source computing. The firm announced the availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term support) Server...

Novell launches Suse Appliance Program

Dave Bailey — 2008-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 16 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Will give ISVs power to create software appliances

Enterprise Linux vendor Novell has announced a new Suse Appliance Program, which will allow independent software vendors (ISVs) to create software appliances by integrating their applications with a customised version...

Amazon beefs up cloud computing storage

Gareth Morgan — 2008-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Gareth Morgan, IT Week, Tuesday 15 April 2008 at 00:00:00

EC2 adds persistent storage

Online retailer Amazon is to add persistent storage features to its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted service, making it more reliable....

IBM invests in EnterpriseDB

David Neal — 2008-03-25T00:00:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Tuesday 25 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Open Source database firm EnterpriseDB has announced new financial backing

IBM has invested in the open source database firm EnterpriseDB, as the firm looked for financers in its third round of investment....

Red Hat operating system beta updated

IT Week staff — 2008-03-13T00:00:00.000Z

IT Week staff, IT Week, Thursday 13 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Red Hat has updated its Linux operating system and released the result to beta testers

Linux distributor Red Hat has released the latest version of its enterprise Linux operating system for beta testing, with a focus on the desktop and virtualisation....

Sun closes MySQL deal and pledges more

Martin Veitch — 2008-02-27T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Veitch, IT Week, Wednesday 27 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Sun Microsystems begins world tour of customers and developers this week

Sun has closed the deal to acquire open-source database leader MySQL just six week after announcing the agreement. On 16 January, Sun surprised many industry watchers by saying it would...

Red Hat bosses open source SOA

Dave Bailey — 2008-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 15 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Red Hat has released open source service orientated architecture

Enterprise open source vendor Red Hat has announced what it says is the "market's first comprehensive open source service orientated architecture technology." The JBoss Enterprise SOA platform, combines software from...

Novell goes Web 2.0 with SiteScape purchase

Dave Bailey — 2008-02-14T00:00:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Thursday 14 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Novell has acquired collaboration specialist SiteScape

Enterprise vendor Novell has acquired open source team collaboration firm SiteScape for an undisclosed sum. Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian said that the SiteScape acquisition squares with Novell's corporate strategy,...

Zimbra most likely casualty of Microsoft-Yahoo combo

Martin Veitch — 2008-02-04T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Veitch, IT Week, Monday 4 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Open-source Exchange alternative could be hurt by acquisition

Microsoft’s $44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo is largely focused on capturing the attention of consumers on the internet but it could also have an effect on businesses, not least because...

Open-source firms merge as demand escalates

Martin Veitch — 2008-01-30T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Veitch, IT Week, Wednesday 30 January 2008 at 00:00:00

SpringSource steps up to acquire Covalent

Application framework developer SpringSource is to acquire support provider Covalent Technologies as demand for services to back up open-source software investments builds up, and as open-source companies sell up or...