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Microsoft Takes Bold Steps Toward Open APIs and Publishing Tech Specs

2/21/2008

In a major shift in its business model, Microsoft Thursday said it is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs and release extensive documentation of its protocols. The company is also promising not to sue open source developers who use Microsoft's patented protocols for non-commercial implementations. Read More

Texas University Adopts SaaS for Admissions Management

2/21/2008

Concordia University Texas is working with Intelliworks' Orion software service to manage its admissions programs. Concordia said it plans to use the solution to manage online event registration and prospect inquiries, track interactions with prospective students, and create targeted e-mail marketing campaigns. Read More

Ingres and Pentaho Partner on Open Source BI

2/21/2008

Ingres Corp. and Pentaho Corp. formed a partnership this month to address market demands for open source business intelligence (BI) products and services. Read More

UAE University Streamlines Document Processing with ImageNow

2/20/2008

The American University in Dubai has deployed ImageNow, an enterprise document management program from Perceptive Software, to streamline its business processes. Read More

(ISC)² Launches Information Security Awards

2/20/2008

Non-profit certification group (ISC)² Wednesday kicked off its 2008 information security awards program with plans to hand out $100,000 for post-graduate information security research projects. Scholarships of up to $12,500 will be given out to eight full-time students pursuing a master's degree in information security at an accredited university. Read More

Community College Upgrades Network for Video Collaboration

2/19/2008

Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA has upgraded its data network and installed Extreme Networks switches to support video collaboration applications. Additionally, all servers were upgraded to Gigabit speeds. Extreme BlackDiamond 8800 switches support the core of the network, and Summit X450 switches outfit the edge. These switches feature Power over Ethernet (PoE), as well as routing capabilities. PoE enables network devices to run off a single CAT5 Ethernet cable that carries both data and power. Read More

IBM Partners with UCLA, NC State on Web Development

2/19/2008

In an effort to promote expertise in Web 2.0 application development among the next generation of IT professionals, IBM has teamed up with two universities--University of California, Los Angeles and North Carolina State University--to provide support for academic programs teaching programming using open technologies like Groovy and Java in conjunction with Eclipse and Ruby on Rails. IBM also said it will be providing its previously announced Lotus Mashups software free to the academic community later this year. Read More

Moodlerooms Supports LSU's Move to Moodle

2/15/2008

Louisiana State University has signed on with Moodlerooms to provide support, hosting, and other services for its Moodle deployment. As we reported in November, LSU is replacing two learning management systems on its campus with Moodle, an open-source LMS/CMS popular in higher education and elsewhere. Read More

IBM Partners with UCLA, NC State on Web Development

2/14/2008

In an effort to promote expertise in Web 2.0 application development among the next generation of IT professionals, IBM has teamed up with two universities--University of California, Los Angeles and North Carolina State University--to provide support for academic programs teaching programming using open technologies like Groovy and Java in conjunction with Eclipse and Ruby on Rails. IBM also said it will be providing its previously announced Lotus Mashups software free to the academic community later this year. Read More

Sun To Acquire Virtualization Developer

2/13/2008

Sun Microsystems yesterday announced plans to purchase German software developer innotek, the maker of VirtualBox, a set of open source x86 virtualization tools for home and enterprise users. The announcement comes less than a month after the signing of Sun's $1 billion definitive agreement to acquire open source database developer MySQL. Terms of this latest deal have not been disclosed. Read More