Open Source News & Articles

Lucid Imagination released its new search-as-a-service platform, LucidWorks Cloud. The cloud-based product reduces the effort and time required for companies to adopt enterprise search.

Taking a page from Dropbox and other document sharing services, Liferay announced today a new document sharing add-on for the community edition of its enterprise portal. The add-on, Liferay Sync, allows users to access documents stored in Liferay from their desktop or mobile device.

eXo has released the latest version of its open source portal, eXo 3.5. The release has lots of new features, but the big news may be the portal’s journey to the cloud.

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.

 The latest release of ownCloud, the young open source file, sync and share project, includes new features and improved stability.

If you were wondering if growth and interest in open source was just hype, Liferay provided a little additional evidence today that open source is thriving. The open source portal maker has announced its community expanded to 56,000 members in 2011 -- an almost 40% increase over the previous year.

Open source enterprise content management (ECM) platform provider Nuxeo announced that it is opening a US headquarters in New York to complement its existing US offices in Boston and San Francisco (Silicon Valley).

Sure, it’s Friday the 13th, but if you’re a designer, it might be your lucky day. Open source CMS provider SilverStripe and web agency Bluehouse Group have launched a contest to design the new default theme for SilverStripe CMS 3.0.

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 portal provider Liferay has finally released the latest version of its platform, version 6.1 Community Edition. We were able to see a preview of 6.1 at the Liferay West Coast Symposium back in September, and the official release did not disappoint.

The 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.

Enterprise acceptance of open source software has grown tremendously over the last few years. Few voices in the open source community complained about the newfound popularity, but maybe they didn’t know that hanging with the cool kids came with expectations.

Enterprises have increasingly embraced open source as a part of their technology portfolio. Despite the growth, some leaders are still hesitant about “officially” endorsing open source options. There are fewer support options, more unknowns and an almost complete absence of magic quadrant style analysts’ reports to guide decision-making. Open source solutions provider OpenLogic may be changing that. The firm has released a new, detailed finding about enterprise open source trends in 2011.

Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month, keeping you up to date with the open source CMS and other related projects that might interest you. Like last year, we're taking a look back at 2011 and into 2012 for some extra insights into what's to come.

 Microsoft has been taking big steps to make its cloud platform, Windows Azure, more attractive. Just last week the company announced support for several popular open source development tools including Node.js and Hadoop. It seems that the company is intent on ensuring that Windows Azure remains the leading choice for Microsoft-based cloud services, but the company shouldn’t get too comfortable on its throne. VMWare and little-known Tier 3 have stepped forward to provide Microsoft a little competition. Game on, Azure.