Open Source News & Articles

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.

This week, we look at why users of Google Docs, and more generally Google Apps, will have to upgrade their browsers, the new Kofax and Pegasystems integration, Nuxeo’s DM upgrade, Cabinet NG’s enhancements to CNG-WEB and the possible release of Office 365 by the end of June.

The big event in the GRC space this week was the release of Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery. Otherwise, RSA and SOA have integrated to provide cloud security, OpenLogic offers new collaboration capabilities for compliance, Iron Mountain shows that enterprises are still struggling to find files, while companies worried about GRC can learn it from ARC Logics.

CMSWire covered SubHub (news, site) when the cloud-based web content management provider released its initial SubHub Lite Drupal 7 offering back in December, becoming one of the pioneers on the platform. The company, which has offered website building and content publishing since 2005, has now announced a Drupal 7-based Content Monetization Platform (CMP) including a marketplace (App Store) for Drupal 7 (news, site) modules. CMSWire walked through the new offering shortly before it went live with Evan Rudowski, Co-Founder and Director of SubHub.

Open source document management vendor Nuxeo, today released new versions of Nuxeo Document Management (DM) 5.4.2 and its underlying Enterprise Platform. The latest updates  include user experience enhancements and several new features. And, as is the Nuxeo way -- it was strongly driven by community feedback.

Jentla, a provider of Web CMS solutions built on the open source web content management system, Joomla, has come up with a new tool for supporting business processes. It's called Jentla Action and here's our look at it.

Publishers that wish to take advantage of Kaltura's (news, site) open-source video platform to push their own services can now sign up with Kaltura's recently-launched Partner Program. Targeted at resellers, system integrators OEMs, media consultants and marketing agencies, the Partner Program provides a white-label edition of Kaltura's commercial offering.

Day two has wrapped-up here in San Francisco at Lucid Imagination's (news, site) Lucene Revolution event. I can honestly say I’ve never seen so many computational linguists in a single location. Before lunch, Lucid Imagination managed to squeeze in eight sessions, a panel and a keynote address -- all about search. Didn’t know there was that much to discuss? Maybe you should consider attending next year.

Open source WCM provider, ocPortal (news, site), dropped a major release this week bring it to a solid version 7.0. Packed with numerous new features and lots of enhancements and bug fixes, you can be sure that backward compatibility has been maintained.

Today is day two of Lucid Imagination’s (news, site) two-day conference, Lucene Revolution in San Francisco. Lucid Imagination, provider of commercial products and services for Apache Lucene and Solar, has managed to attract nearly 500 participants from all over the globe to learn, review case studies and network with their peers about the widely used open source search solution. The second day kicked off with a discussion of extracting value from data big and small.

Day one of Lucid Imagination’s (news, site) 2011 Lucene Revolution has concluded. Lucene Revolution is the only conference dedicated to the popular Apache Lucene/Solr projects. This is the second year the conference takes place in the U.S., and interest in attending the open-source enterprise search fest continues to grow -- like the data it interrogates.

Acquia (news, site) has released a new version of its social software platform, Drupal Commons. Drupal Commons, based on the open source web content management system Drupal, provides users social tools to help better engage customers. Is release 1.6 an improvement? Yep, it's kind of a big deal.

Alkacon (news, site) has recently announced version 3.0 release of OpenCms Enterprise Extensions, which is essentially a compatibility update for better integration with OpenCms 8.

While open source adoption is on the rise among businesses, a big percentage of companies are nevertheless widely using commercially-licensed software like Microsoft SQL Server. Recognizing the opportunity to reach out to this market, MODx (news, site) has launched version 2.1 of its MODx Revolution Web CMS with support for the Microsoft stack.

Today is the second day of the Computer World Open Source Business conference and it's big. No really, it's big. The four main topic areas: Big Data, Big Cloud, Big Legal Problems and Big Money. The conference is being held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco.