News Briefs: August 15, 2008
By SD Times News Team
August 15, 2008 —
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COMPANIES
The Open Web Foundation, a nonprofit organization aiming to build a lightweight framework around community-driven specifications, started operations in late July. The Open Web Foundation’s goal is to bring legal clarity and consistency to Web standards efforts currently under way. Backers of the organization include Facebook, Google, Yahoo and executives from other initiatives.
NEW PRODUCTS
Security provider Uniloc released SoftAnchor Insight, a product usage and license reporting and analysis tool. As part of the SoftAnchor license management platform, Insight provides aggregate metrics about software activation and usage, according to the company. Uniloc claims the product provides the industry’s first reporting of real piracy and casual copying activity, along with license reporting including activation, compliance and subscriptions.
Sun Microsystems released the Sun Web Stack, an AMP (Apache-MySQL-Perl or PHP) stack for Linux and Solaris operating systems. The stack consists of Web and proxy servers, scripting languages and a database that enables developers to deploy Web applications easily, Sun executives said. The company also said it is open-sourcing components of the Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy technologies in the OpenSolaris community.
Aspire Technologies, creator of QuoteWerks sales quoting software, has made available a utility for QuoteWerks that imports HTML quotes from Dell. The utility reduces the time it takes companies to produce quotes for clients that use Dell products, Aspire executives said.
UPDATES
Open-source enterprise content management provider Alfresco Software has released what it calls an open-source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, Alfresco Labs 3. Using Alfresco Labs 3, organizations can leverage Linux, Java and .NET to reduce SharePoint cost of ownership, the company claimed.
Sybase’s iAnywhere mobile and embedded database unit has enabled interoperability with the iPhone 3G to bring in wireless e-mail from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange e-mail systems. iAnywhere Mobile Office also provides security for e-mail, according to the company.
Quest Software now offers its JProbe Java profiler as a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE, as part of the release of JProbe 8.0. The company claims that launching JProbe in an Eclipse environment enables users to adopt continuous performance testing best practices. Quest Software said it plans to add performance analysis capabilities to its Eclipse plug-in to allow users to investigate issues without having to leave the Eclipse environment.
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