Enterprise Open Source News

Ian Tree, chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. has initiated an interesting movement: ask to IBM to transform the Notes/Domino product line into an Open Source, Community Development offering. Notes/Domino has been loosing traction in the past with the rise of Web technologies. Notes/Domino is still a cash cow for IBM. It is [...]

If your boss come in with a sentence like “Why don’t we have a microblogging platform like Twitter” and that you want to go for an “on premices” solution, have a look at Laconica.  Still young, but full featured and pretty stable.

Open-Xchange has closed a Series B round of venture funding to the tune of $9 million. The round was led by German venture firm eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners AG and joined by BayBG and existing Munich-based investor BayTech Venture Capital. Open-Xchange received a total of $8.8 million in a Series A financing round from angel investors and [...]

The version 3.0 of Open office is out. Some important new fetaures

Mac OS X Support
ODF 1.2 support
Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters
Solver
Chart Enhancements
Spreadsheet Collaboration Through Workbook Sharing
1024 Columns Per Calc Sheet (Instead of 256)
Display of Multiple Writer Pages While Editing
Enhanced XML support and updated XSLT based filters

If Open office 3.0 is still not at Office 2007 [...]

I’ve been almost right on that one. Google will launch tomorrow its browser, code named Chrome. Early beta, as usual, but we all know that what Google calls a beta is something like a release 5 in some other IT regions.
Yes. After years of rumors, the browser (and the GoogleOS) will be there.
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The Linux Foundation is just publishing a guide to contribute to the Linux kernel the right way. If your enterprise is using Linux a lot and some of your people have some code to contribute, this is a must read.
In any case, if you rely on Linux somewhere in your IS, the chapter “How the [...]

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http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/book/how-participate-linux-community

This IDC study reports is very useful to understand  business characteristics of open source software vendors today, and inform their decisions about the implications of implementing a strategy that includes revenue from open source software in their businesses.
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