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The European Commission's Open Source-Friendly Stance Draws Fire

The European Commission is out with a white paper, downloadable as a PDF here, that calls for much broader and more standardized adoption of open source software across Europe. As IDG News Service notes, the white paper is getting both positive and negative reactions because of the bias it shows toward open source software. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, says in a statement: It aims to facilitate digital cooperation among European administrations, but in effect it excludes many well-established technologies from being used for e-Government services due to a narrow definition of open standards. This will hurt first and foremost innovative tech start-ups that rely on patent protection to establish themselves in the marketplace. Will it?


OpenText Buying Vignette and the Impact of Open Source Content Management

My first thought when I saw that OpenText is buying Vignette, one of the oldest providers of content and portal management software, for $310 million, was what a huge player Vignette was as the commercial web ramped up. It was founded in 1995, when all businesses were suddenly forced to build online presences, wrestle with HTML, online collaboration and other new concepts. The number of big businesses that run sites and intranets on Vignette is still long, including Disney, Wachovia, Martha Stewart, Fox NewsDigital, and more. Open source content management solutions have continuously taken business away from proprietary players like Vignette, though, especially as the free and low cost platforms have matured.?

OStatic runs on Drupal, for example, a completely free platform. It works fine for us, and we never need to pay for support or services. As we covered recently in our interview with Alfresco Software Chairman John Newton, Alfresco is doing extremely well with its open source enterprise content management platforms, so we asked the folks there about the meaning of the Vignette acquisition.



Interview: 9 Questions For Alfresco Software's Chairman, John Newton

Launched in 2005, Alfresco Software provides a leading open source enterprise content management (ECM) system, known for its modularity and scalability. The company was founded by John Newton, co-founder of document management company Documentum, and John Powell, who was the former COO of Business Objects. Alfresco has achieved remarkable growth as a commercial open source firm, has many partners, employs roughly 110 people, and is a member of the Open Source Channel Alliance. John Newton, CTO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Alfresco, was kind enough to take some questions from us on Alfresco's software, its strategy? as a commercial open source company, and the state and future of open source. Here are his thoughts, below the fold.


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Apple Safari 4 beta borrows from Chrome and Firefox. The tabs on top layout is straight out of Google's Chrome browser.

Amazon must open the Kindle. O'Reilly maintains: Open allows experimentation. Open encourages competition.

37 Signals doubts the free model. Free is not the future.

Red Hat and Citrix ratchet up open source virtualization relevancy. Both are taking aim at VMware.

New rival for Microsoft's SharePoint. Ingres and Alfresco have a software appliance that bundles the Ingres database with Alfresco's content management.

KDE 4.2: 10 tips for getting started. This version is loaded with new design concepts and features.?



Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Steams Ahead

This week brings some interesting new reports on open source adoption in enterprises, providing more evidence that the economic downturn is boosting many open source product categories. BusinessWeek has a big story out on cost-conscious companies turning to open source, ranging from ETrade to the Los Angeles Times. Meanwhile, new survey results illustrate a trend we've written about before: open source moving up the software stack in enterprises.


Alfresco Releases Results of its Open Source Barometer Survey

Alfresco Software, which makes open source enterprise content management software, is out with the results of its third global survey of trends in enterprise open source usage. The Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey went to 25,000 Alfresco community members between April and September. It consists of questions about open source infrastructure and software stacks at enterprises. There are some interesting findings, including wariness toward Microsoft's Silverlight, and friendliness toward Java, AJAX and Web 2.0 offerings.


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Motorola is betting the farm on mobile open source and Android.....

Is Canonical overly paternalistic with Ubuntu?.....

Version 3.0 of the Alfresco Enterprise Edition content management system is out, and adds Alfresco Share for online team collaboration.....

Three scripts for package management on Debian and Ubuntu systems.....

Notable open source innovations.....



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Is the way to make money in open source to charge for what's not open source?.....

Sun has released the code for its xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0, key components in its virtualization portfolio.....

Five open source Web 2.0 apps.....

Backed by EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle, and SAP, Alfresco Software has announced a draft for a Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) spec. It's designed to encourage interoperability among content management systems.....



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Red Hat's Project Spacewalk --where is it heading?.....

What does Google Chrome mean for Firefox, and could this be a prelude to Google acquiring Mozilla?.....

Alfresco Software has announced that Adobe has implemented its document collaboration as part of the file sharing features in Acrobat.com......

10 open source companies to watch.....



LinuxWorld Day Two Gets Rolling

The LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco is open for day two, and the announcements are coming fast and furious. Motorola's ROKR EM30 has been announced, making it the 22nd handset based on the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux platform. Meanwhile, new security and Wi-Fi monitoring tools are being unveiled. Here are some of the top new arrivals.


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