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XAware goes open source

XAware announced this week the release of its data integration product into open source. The company has also become a Gold Partner in the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance program.  In what's becoming a standard operating procedure for split open source/commercial projects, the company has two web sites: xaware.org for the...

Tags: Software, XAware Inc., Data, Data Integration, Open Source, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-07

State/Local/Private Sector Collaboration

It is important to understand that homeland security is not a solution, but rather a situation, within the confines of which, the United States Government must learn to adapt. Formerly acceptable IT practices can now lead to critical information bottlenecks. The mission of interoperability is exceedingly complex and it calls...

Tags: XAware Inc., Collaboration, XML, Homeland Security, Strategy, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Government, Management

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Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?

Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?so we should all abandon OSS?Hi Dana,I have a few issues with your post (I was with JBoss from early 2004 until I left Red Hat in November 2007 by the way). Because SpringSource is holding user events in 5-star resorts,...

Tags: Java development tools, Mergers & Acquisitions, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, RHT, JBoss, SpringSource, OSS, acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+why

Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+whyOverall, Good NewsThe survey seems to reflect the notion that the real goal of SOA - agility through rapid orchestration of services into new processes, is still a long term prospect, and still just beyond reach. The good news is that companies are finding significant value in the secondary...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, survey, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

For+Shuttleworth+it+all+comes+down+to+trust

For+Shuttleworth+it+all+comes+down+to+trustForking vs "moving on"If someone's ideas are not being accepted in a project quickly enough or completely enough, is he more likely to fork the software or to lose interest. Mr. Blankenhorn has praised forks as saving projects while Mr. Shuttleworth believes potential contributors go elsewhere.There are obviously examples...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Proprietary Software, long tail, software, developer

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Will+open+source+be+a+victim+in+the+Dot+Bomb+2.0%3F

Will+open+source+be+a+victim+in+the+Dot+Bomb+2.0%3FInsightfulSometimes in your moments of doubt I agree with you. Though in this article you might have mentioned that "open source" companies have already flared and burnt out once before. Leaving a few hardy if minor survivors.(Minor as you indicated in this comment:But real profits have been tough...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Wi-Fi, dot-Bomb, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suites

Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suitesSome like it suite, others don'tThere will continue to be a divide between companies that want a full SOA suite, and those looking for best-of-breed SOA components. The latter will have much more flexibility and cost savings, at the expense of the...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, OPEN SOURCE, open-source community, SOA, SOA Suite

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Where open source is most vital

Where open source is most vitalWhere open source does bestDana, I agree with your conclusion that: "Open source is most vital in the plumbing..." I want to share some of the conclusions I reached on our two year journey moving XAware (xaware.org) from proprietary data services middleware (i.e. data...

Tags: operating system, open source

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

Survey: no SOA 'fiascos' out there, so far

Survey: no SOA 'fiascos' out there, so farSurvey Says: SOA Stimulus Package!Joe, its not surprising at all that the survey reports SOA health in a positive light. AmberPoint, along with other SOA-related vendors (my company as well - XAware.org), can only benefit from increased SOA deployments. More deployments...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, survey

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Analyst: Sun positioning to battle Red Hat JBoss for emerging SOA market

Analyst: Sun positioning to battle Red Hat JBoss for emerging SOA marketThe Premise Seems RightOpen source infrastructure software seem to be emergining the preferred way of implementing SOA, not only the components available from RHAT, and Sun, but also from Mulesource, Active Endpoints, XAware, and others. Data services...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, OPEN SOURCE, SOA, Sun positioning, Red Hat JBoss, RHAT, Sun Microsystems Inc., data service, positioning, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

The open source development incline

The open source development inclineThe problem is when one company owns all of the right for proprietary use.This is true with Qt, MySQL, and others. These projects are completely free to use as long as you do NOT link any proprietary code with it, but the minute you want to...

Tags: Databases, incline, open-source development, MySQL, open source

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Sun's planned deal to acquire MySQL will strengthen its open source story

Sun's planned deal to acquire MySQL will strengthen its open source storyGreat get, Paula...and well written, too. (Taught her everything she knows -- NOT!)RE: Sun's planned deal to acquire MySQL will strengthen its open source stoI don't want to be nit-picky, but is somebody proof-reading this before it goes out?...

Tags: MySQL, open source, planned deal, Sun Microsystems Inc., blog

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?So what if you want......support? In the corporate environments I've worked in, management has always insisted on support agreements, sla's etc. So who do you call for support when you have a stack of multiple products that you mashed together to build your solution?...

Tags: SourceForge, Pull-a-Part, open source

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Five great unsolved mysteries of SOA

Five great unsolved mysteries of SOAPlease define SOAwhat is it? the only reason theirs mystery behind it, is because theres really not a good definition for it. right? I havent seen anyone explain it with the "nutshell" approach yet, that makes sense to me anyways. please...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

The best open source development model

The best open source development modelNice post, but first paragraph is wrong.. I never worked at Sun....Hi Dana, nice post, but I never worked for Sun so I think the starting paragraph sets the wrong point of view...But Palamida isn't a projectI can only assume that Palamida was mentioned in...

Tags: Java development tools, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, open source, IBM Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-12-11