Stories about: OSA

The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its president, Dominic Sartorio.

The Open Solutions Alliance, a nonprofit group backed by a number of commercial open-source vendors, released a survey on Wednesday that found interoperability is a foremost concern among open-source-software customers.

Openbravo, an Open Source web-based ERP product, was project of the month on SourceForge in September. The project uses a Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1). It has 68 developers and over 200 contributors and has been downloaded over 350,000 times; with that number increasing by about 1,000 downloads per day.

Nonprofit vendor consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) made good on its April promise to deliver a prototype demonstrating interoperability between open-source and proprietary business applications in time for LinuxWorld this week.

Launched in February, the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) came together to help open-source application vendors make their products work better together and gain visibility among enterprise users. One of the group's board members, Barry Klawans, who is also CTO with open-source business intelligence software vendor JasperSoft of San Francisco, discussed the Alliance's goals and enterprise IT plans with Computerworld here at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Excerpts from that interview follow:

Nonprofit consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has begun making moves to increase businesses' use of open-source software.

Open-source database vendor MySQL AB and business intelligence (BI) software provider JasperSoft have announced a joint reselling agreement.

A handful of open source supporters Wednesday formed an alliance with plans to develop and promote open source business solutions, ultimately making it easier for enterprise companies to adopt open source technologies in their IT shops.

The city council of Birmingham, U.K., has defended its year-long trial of desktop Linux, claiming it to be a success, despite an independent report showing it would have been cheaper to install Windows XP.

The UK's Open Source Academy has launched a new Web site, offering information on procurement and a free "ask an expert" service.

Professed Linux kernel tinkerer Paul “Rusty” Russell has taken out the Special Achievement Award at the second annual Australian Open Source Awards (OSA) 2003 in Sydney.