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Web publishing, CMS, BI most hot for open source disruption, but ESB and security are not?

Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Security, JasperSoft, Web-publishing, Content Management System, KnowledgeTree, MuleSource, MuleSource 2.0 Community Edition, Open Source Security, 3D System, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Service Bus, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-26

open source security arrives with Untangle

Open source security arrives with Untanglenothing newYes untangle looks pretty cool. But you act as if there have never been any open source firewall distributions and that simply isn't true. You might take a look at smoothwall or i.p.cop which have both been around for a number of years. I.p.Cop...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, open source, OS Security, distro, Linux, Open Source Security

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

open source security arrives with Untangle

A few months after launching this blog I asked why there was no open source security.Now there is. Untangle has released its network gateway under GPVv2. CEO and blogger  Bob Walters compares his product to SONICwall and Watchguard, saying "we'll sell services and premium products on top of it."Load the software...

Tags: Security, resellers, mass market, GPL, General, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-05

When will open source security grow up?

When will open source security grow up?Linux security products are mainly for babysitting Windows..They are out there..I found some....Ethereal, Snort, Nessus, Tripwire, YaST.. There are a bunch. What is it you want to do? Active directory style policies? If so get eDiretory from Novell.But for everything else try insecure.org.There are...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux security product, SpamAssassin, developer, open source, Linux, security, open source security, firewall, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-03-28

When will open source security grow up?

There are great open source products for nearly every purpose. But I have yet to find many in the security field. Most seem hand-written, based on books like the O'Reilly Secure Progrmaming Cookbook. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. If I'm not, please point to your favorite open source security...

Tags: open source, open source security

Blog posts 2005-03-28

Additional Resources

Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version

Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port

Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-16

Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-16

McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"

Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com.  God is good and created YouTube for laughs...

Tags: Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)

It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Putting the XP into the OLPC

So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...

Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-16

WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...

Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use

Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need to check the time without needing to flip open the phone. Well, now that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Screen, RSS, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Sugar-free Windows, as predicted

As Ivan Krstić predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus the Sugar interface and open source tools that allow full implementation of the XO hardware (e.g., mesh networking). ...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?

Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...

Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-15