Red Hat Network to be open-sourced
Red Hat plans to announce Thursday that it is open-sourcing Red Hat Network (RHN), its Web-based Linux infrastructure management platform, according to CEO Jim Whitehurst.
Stories by Chris Kanaracus
Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
Study: SOA deployments on rise
Forty-two percent of respondents to a recent IBM-funded study said SOA (service-oriented architecture) is the top spending priority of their organizations, the company announced Wednesday.
Red Hat settles patent suits with Firestar, DataTern
Red Hat has settled patent infringement claims brought against it by Firestar Software and DataTern, the company announced Wednesday.
CIA uses wiki technology to share information
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Intellipedia project for information-sharing within the nation's intelligence community is still in the early adoption phase a couple years after its launch, but has become a brand name for an entire suite of related Web 2.0 technologies, two CIA officials involved with the effort said Tuesday.
CRM systems to get free company contact data
Customers of a number of leading CRM (customer relationship management) systems will be able to import large sets of company contact data at no charge through a service from data provider Jigsaw.
Curl adds runtime support for Mac environments
Curl, maker of a framework for building rich Internet applications, said Tuesday that it is now supporting Macintosh environments, citing "rapidly increasing penetration" of the platform in enterprises.
Vendor wants to be 'Wikipedia for finance'
Adaptive Planning has added a set of collaboration and community-building features to the 5.0 release of its budgeting and reporting software.
NetSuite scoops up OpenAir
On-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite is purchasing OpenAir, maker of Web-based PPO (project portfolio management) and PSA (professional services automation) software, the company said Monday.
Paglo's IT search engine moves into open beta
Startup Paglo, which first unveiled its "search engine for IT" in November, announced Tuesday that the fledgling SaaS (software as a service) offering is now available in open beta form through the (Northern) summer, after which the company will move to a paid model.
Google beefs up Mini search appliance for SMBs
Google's Mini search appliance for small and midsize businesses has grown a new set of capabilities for crawling and categorizing documents, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday.
IBM-Cognos to refund $13 million to Massachusetts
IBM will repay US$13 million to Massachusetts for performance management software its subsidiary, Cognos, sold to the US state in August 2007, according to an agreement reached last week.
SugarCRM launches data center edition
Customers and partners of open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM will be able to deploy and manage a number of instances of the software through a new management console, the company announced Wednesday.
Could Google's 'dataspaces' reshape search?
Google -- the company most identified with Web search -- is not the leading player behind the firewall, claiming about 9,000 customers are using its enterprise search products. Independent search vendor Autonomy says it has 17,000.
The future of enterprise search
A startup company called Powerset gained a slew of headlines last week when it launched a beta version of its search engine, which like other offerings employs natural language processing, allowing users to search sets of information in the form of questions.