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Apache's Lucene search engine has just picked up some multilingual, natural language support with the recent integration of Teragram Linguistic Tools.

This integration gives Lucene the capabilities to compete with some of the bigger search engines on the market today.

Not happy to just let people come to their new developer portal, Day Software is heading over to ApacheCon Europe 08 in Amsterdam to do a little social networking.

On Friday, April 11, Day's chief scientist, Roy Fielding will deliver a keynote address entitled "Apache 3.0 (a Tall Tale). Prior to his keynote Friday, look for Fielding's presentation today on "A Little REST and Relaxation". In this presentation, Fielding will discuss the REST protocol he developed giving conference attendees an solid introduction and in-depth overview.

Other presentations by Day on Friday, include:

• Senior developer for JEE and portal applications Carsten Ziegeler's presentation titled JCR in Action - Content-based Applications with Apache Jackrabbit. This might be a good presentation for anyone interested in winning that JCR Cup 2008. There will be a content management application demo during the presentation.
• Another senior developer for Day, Jukka Zitting will give a presentation called File System on Steroids - an Introduction to JCR. This presentation is all about the JCR standard providing an introduction to the JCR API and Apache Jackrabbit.

A great way to spend your Friday if you are a Java developer or architect. Especially if you want to win the first Day JCR cup, gleam all you can from the experts themselves.

Details on the conference are found here.

WSO2, an Open Source SOA company, has launched a new product called Mashup Server 1.0. This new server combines the capabilities of developing “situational” mashups with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform.

Global CMS and content infrastructure purveyor Day has added a handful of major contributors, from the annals of open source, to its senior developer team.

Poaching from the resources of the open source movement is an activity of growing popularity. In particular, open source Web CMS offerings are less expensive and increasingly more user friendly than many enterprise counterparts.

You can also count on an enthusiastic, auto-correcting bug-detector: the close-knit open source community itself.

Continuing a trend that began with Office 2007 and was followed by Windows Vista, Microsoft announces that the Beta 3 version of its next generation server operating system is available for download and will go into manufacturing before the end of the year.

The enterprise-targeting open source solutions purveyors at Covalent Technologies just announced they'll be offering Add-On Tech Support for 12 more open Apache-based products on a per-incident basis.

It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.