Bluenog News & Articles

Bluenog (news, site) co-founder Suresh Kuppusamy has stepped aside to make room for the new CEO, Joe Valley.

Valley packs a ton of experience, including CEO positions at NCT, Inc., MIS USA, Momentum Software corporation and Seranin Software Corporation. He has also served as the president and COO for QueryObjean, an Amex-traded global business intelligence software company.

"Joe's deep experience in the enterprise software market, outstanding leadership qualities and focus on building profitable companies will enable us to expand and extend our Bluenog ICE product suite," said Sastry Taruvai, co-founder and chief information officer. "We are excited to have Joe leading the Bluenog team towards its next phase of growth and success."

Though Kuppusamy is stepping down, he's not going very far. The co-founder will resume his post as Chief Technology Officer.

"The co-founders have built a great product and a great team," said Valley. "Now with the tremendous acceptance Bluenog ICE has received in the higher education market, we are poised to take the company into the burgeoning healthcare market as well."

The subject of open source software licensing is rarely considered titillating. More often it inspires early afternoon naps.

Well, there's been a change in the script and we've got a small civil war on our hands. Tempers and tensions have risen between US-based Bluenog and Netherlands-based Hippo -- both companies deal in the content management space, both are tinkering with open source.

Now it's not the fight we're interested in -- though it's been a fun interlude of Days of Our [Software] Lives. Rather, it's the principles behind the issue that are worth paying attention to.

In short, Bluenog has been accused of violating Hippo's and Apache's software licenses by using Hippo's code and not properly giving attribution. We had a chat with both parties. Here's what they had to say.

Though it was only yesterday that Bluenog (news, site) announced the newest iteration of their integrated collaborative environment, better known as Bluenog ICE, the company is already back with more exciting news. Good Samaritans that they are, Bluenog plans to contribute back the enhancements it made to various open source projects during the development phase of Bluenog ICE 4.5.

Simply put, Bluenog ICE is a mash-up of an open source content management system, portal and business intelligence tools. The juiciest part of 4.5 is arguably the inclusion of wikis, thanks to the JSPWiki Open Source Project. Accordingly, initial contributions will center on JSPWiki, which also adds support for page level permissions. Bedework, the open source system responsible for ICE 4.5’s calendaring application, will reportedly also get some early play.

"Our contributions will make it easier for the open source community to use projects such as JetSpeed, Apache, Eclipse and JSPWiki and leverage the expertise and production-ready enhancements Bluenog has developed,” Said Suresh Kuppusamy, CEO and co-founder, Bluenog. “This will help shorten development lifecycles and improve the quality and reliability of applications based on these projects."

No complaints here; although, considering the fact that Bluenog ICE won’t be released to the general public until June 30th, tidbits like this probably only feed the fervor of all you hardcore fans. Sorry about that.

The best we can do for now is suggest you wipe the drool off your lip and follow the latest Bluenog news here. 

We imagine the creation of Bluenog’s (news, site) flagship solution went down a little like this: Someone was tired of switching between their portal, content management system and business intelligence tools, so they threw all three into a melting pot, stirred it up, and *BAM!* out popped Bluenog ICE.

OK, so maybe that’s not how it went. Whatever the case, the recipe is still a stellar one, and the recognition the company’s received certainly proves it. Today at Boston's Enterprise 2.0 conference Bluenog announced that ICE is back for another round, this time as version 4.5. The new software includes an Enterprise Wiki, secure group calendaring features and enhanced centralized administration.

When it comes to dancing with hippos and romancing thousands of college girls, the company that gets the job done is Bluenog (news, site). Yes, the team behind the ECM solution Bluenog ICE, which is built on Hippo open source technology and was recently announced as the management solution of choice for Wellesley College’s website, has certainly been attracting a lot of attention lately.

On the heels of their Startup 50 ranking from InformationWeek comes another award, this time from Red Herring. The media company’s editorial team announced that their list of the top 100 Technology Companies in North America contains winners drawn from a pool of 1,000.

Each year, evaluations are reportedly made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

“Of the thousands of companies that have submitted their entries we were tasked with choosing the technologies that are making the biggest impact this year,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Bluenog is one of those exceptional companies that can make open source tick in the enterprise with its advanced collaborative solution.”

The list of companies that rocked Red Herring’s boat this year included some other familiar faces as well, like Clearwell, Meebo and Acquia. To see them all, check out Red Herring’s website here.

Remember Bluenog, the new-ish Enterprise Content Management solution provider who loves to play with open source solutions? The company claimed to be the first of its kind, but we tend to keep a healthy skepticism.

Recently these new comers' ego has gained a bit of puff. InformationWeek has named Bluenog ICE -- Bluenog's flagship solution -- to its first ever Startup 50 ranking. The award recognizes value, enterprise-readiness and innovation. Let's take another look at what Bluenog is doing.

Remember Bluenog ICE, the Integrated Collaborative Environment created by a group of ex-BEAers? The Enterprise CMS solution, based on an open source technology stack was announced mid-September and is just one of the latest open source solutions to hit the market.

Today they announce that to help ensure they continue to grow to their solution, they have added a couple of well known open source leaders to their Board of Directors.

Joining current board members Scott Barnett, Suresh Kuppasamy and Sastry Taravai (the three co-founders), and Mike DiPiano and Michael Poise are:

• Andy Astor — As co-founder and EVP of Business Development for EnterpriseDB, Astor is known for his strong support of independent open source communities such as PostgreSQL. He has been a champion of hybrid open source business models since 2004.
• Anthony Gold — Gold founded Unisys’ global open source practice and currently resides there as VP and General Manager of open source business.

According to Suresh Kuppusamy, chief executive officer, Bluenog: “Their [Astor and Gold] experiences working with both open source and proprietary technology will be invaluable. We continue to innovate in areas that allow our customers integration options they didn’t have previously.”

With individuals like this on the Board of Directors, Bluenog will have no excuses when it comes to creating and enhancing a true open source solution.

Learn more about the entire team at the Bluenog website.

Bluenog is a company founded by some ex-BEAers — guess they didn’t want to go to Oracle — who have developed a new suite that tightly integrates Enterprise Content Management, Portal and Business Intelligence capabilities. Called Bluenog ICE, they claim it’s the first of its kind. We aren’t so sure its the first, but it certainly caught our attention.