Stories about: CollabNet

The Open Source Census, an effort to pin down hard statistics regarding the implementation of open-source software around the world, got underway on Wednesday.

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.

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:

Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open-source developers, partnering with key websites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open-source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers.

One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favour of doing business entirely on the Web.

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

SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese is an industry veteran who was head of the Java team at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s and also founded "push" software company Marimba, which was eventually bought by business software company BMC Software. SpikeSource helps companies put together open source software stacks by testing and configuring open-source components. It is increasingly feeling competitive heat from big companies like Oracle and IBM, which are offering Linux services and support, as well as from smaller companies specializing in open-source applications and components.

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.

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company's open-source Java IDE (integrated development environment), aiming to beef up the software's productivity tools and improve its look-and-feel.

India, once seen as fertile ground for open-source software, has yet to embrace the development model in the way many hoped it would.

CollabNet may put some of its core software under an open-source license, or under a dual licensing model, to promote its adoption by users, an executive said.