Open Source News & Articles

Keeping in mind that only yesterday, France officially entered recession again, the announcement today that BonitaSoft has managed to raise another US$ 13 million in a Series C funding round led by the French government’s digital agency shows to some extent what is expected of the business process management vendor in the future.

Crafter Rivet is now Crafter CMS as Rivet Logic has spun off a company called Crafter Software to promote its the Web content and Web experience management system.

Personalization with content targeting feature in Crafter CMS.
 

Open source CMS provider dotCMS released version 2.3 this week with a clear eye towards mobile devices. This update includes the very popular responsive themeing, and added tools like a link checker (just like what it sounds like) and a feature called time machine that shows what older site designs or even future site designs look like.

Responsive themes allow for an all in one design across websites or across devices.
 

.NET based CMS Orchard has reached the 4,000,000 download mark for modules and themes (the CMS itself has 480,000 downloads), and is now readying its next release, version 1.7, for a June 2013 launch. It's a major release, and it will debut features like drag and drop multiple image imports, image processing and integrated slideshows.

There have been a number of interesting announcements this week in the document management space. Nuxeo Drive for content synchronization was released, Adobe EchoSign has upgraded its Salesforce offering to v13, while Alfresco is now offering users a single sign-on to cloud services. M-Files has also announced nearly US$ 8 million in Series A funding. 

Considering WordPress as a Web content management system is something hundreds, and maybe thousands of website owners likely do on a daily basis, and we've got a ready-made short list of alternatives that we think are viable alternatives.

When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal’s integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems. 

Open source CMS provider Joomla! has released version 3.1 of its popular system. The minor update includes an integrated tagging system for identifying a variety of components in different ways.

Web servers, databases, PC and cloud operating systems, content management systems and smartphone OSs are among the many areas where open source software has become a major participant. Is the perception of open source changing? A new report attempts to find out. 

Companies who use Open Source software for mission critical applications are taking tremendous and unnecessary risks. So says Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa, a Workload Automation software company offering products that unify Big Compute and Big Data.

Big Data is the new oil, the new gold, the new Californium Isotope … add your own metaphor. You’ve heard it said before, and you’ll hear it said again and again. 

One thing enterprises like in a technology vendor is reliability, and open source CMS provider eZ Systems certainly has that in its new CEO. Not only is Aleksander Farstad the new CEO of eZ Systems, he's also a co-founder.

Enterprise cloud technology provider Salesforce is introducing Salesforce Platform Mobile Services, aimed at easing the process of developing mobile apps in the Salesforce environment.

This year’s SugarCRM annual gathering starts today and like every year there are vendors lining up to announce the good things they are doing with SugarCRM either now, or in the coming year. First off the market this year is Colosa, which has just announced the release of ProcessMaker SugarCRM Edition.

Open source CMS provider Nuxeo has debuted native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices, and developers now have access to tools for building feature specific hybrid apps of their own.