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Pentaho Updates Kettle to Handle Big Data, Moves Platform to Apache

Open source business intelligence provider, Pentaho, has announced a new version of its ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) platform Kettle. Pentaho has updated Kettle with features to support big data and moved the project to Apache.

Out With IBM's Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition

Out With IBM’s Lotus Symphony, In With Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition IBM Symphony appears to have arrived at the end of the road. It’s not exactly unexpected, given the moves in productivity and collaboration space. According to Ed Brill, Director of Messaging and Collaboration Solutions at IBM, the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release of the free productivity suite.

Hippo Leads Efforts to Create Web Experience Management Standards

Hippo Leads Efforts to Create Web Experience Management Standards OASIS, the open standards consortium, announced a new charter and technical committee, which will be led by David Nuescheler, VP and CTO of Customer Experience Management at Adobe, that will work toward creating web experience management standards. Hippo, along with a number of other open source vendors also plays a lead role in the effort. Adobe, Liferay, Magnolia, Nuxeo, Jahia, OpenText and SDL are also represented on the OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) Technical Committee.

Oracle Brings Out Big Data Appliance

The Oracle Big Data Appliance incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) with Cloudera Manager and an open source distribution of R.

Open Source Web Server nginx Passes IIS in Popularity

nginxlog.PNGThe web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source darling Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) takes the silver. Well, it looks like things are changing.

The Stream of Changes Continue: Adobe Donates Flex to Apache

adobe-logo_2009.gif Let’s hope they have an excellent change management team at Adobe. This month they have slashed 750 full-time positions, killed the mobile version of Adobe Flash Player, acquired an Internet video advertising company and changed strategic direction to focus on digital media and marketing, and it’s just the middle of the month. Now, they’ve decided to donate the Adobe Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) and BlazeDS to the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Announces Toolkit for Content Detection and Analyisis

The Apache Software Foundation announced Tika v.1, an embeddable toolkit for content detection and analysis five years in the making.

Open Standards: The Future of OpenSocial 2.0

OpenSocial is to Google as OpenGraph is to Facebook. Some might say that’s all you need to know about OpenSocial 2.0. But as leading technologists and innovators takes sides for and against it, there is much more to the story.

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Microsoft Cozies Up to Big Data and Hadoop

First Oracle, now Microsoft is joining the NoSQL party. At this week’s SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft’s VP of Business Platform Development announced the company was developing its own implementation of Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure. Microsoft also revealed a strategic partnership with Yahoo spinoff Hortonworks. Have we just entered the Twilight zone?

Open Source Web Server NGINX Aims for Apache, May Overtake Microsoft IIS

Open source web server NGINX is growing up and ready to take on the enterprise. NGINX announced that it has received new investment dollars, is planning a commercial division and a new enterprise scale platform. Open source web server Apache may not be sitting comfortably much longer if NGINX has its way.

Apache Lucene/Solr 3.4.0 Released, Brings Improved Indexing, Faster Search, Bug Fixes

Apache Lucene/Solr 3.4.0 Released, Brings Improved Indexing, Faster Search, Bug FixesSearch is an integral component of any enterprise content management system. Whether you run content mainly for external clients, or as an internal knowledge base, finding the right information at the right time will usually spell the difference between success and difficulty in search -- hence the importance of an up-to-date enterprise search engine. The Apache Lucene Project Management Committee has announced the latest Lucene/Solr release, which will ensure searches are on the mark, with optimized indexing and search, as well as bug fixes.

7 Ways to Ensure Your Lucene/Solr Implementation Fails

The emergence of Google and other web search engines has made search pervasive. It has created a generation of users that expect to locate information at work as easily as they can at home online. But, often that is not the reality. Implement a tool to find stuff. How difficult could that possibly be? Ask anyone that has ever implemented anything but the simplest search solution, and they’ll likely agree -- pretty freaking hard.

Here are a few things to avoid to not make your enterprise search implementation even harder.

Nginx Web Server Fast Alternative to Apache

Open source Apache HTTP Server, frequently referred to as just “Apache” by those in the know, has long been a leader in the web server market. However, the popular open source server may be getting a little competition from relative newcomer nginx (pronounced "engine-x").

The Guardian's Open Platform Reinvents Open News with Apache Lucene

The Internet and social media have drastically affected traditional news and journalism business models. But smart news gathering organizations are are striking back, and open source tools like the Apache Lucene search engine are proving invaluable.

At the recent Lucene Revolution conference in San Francisco CMSWire interviewed Stephen Dunn, Head of Technology Strategy at British newspaper The Guardian. Dunn shared how The Guardian has reinvented content and news openness with their Apache Lucene-based Open Platform.

Oracle Hands OpenOffice to Apache, IBM is a Happy Camper

The question of what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code has finally been resolved with an announcement today that it will be giving it to the Apache Foundation (news, site).

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