Using open source tools to build interoperable Web services

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From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design

Gates: Microsoft Will Build
Interoperable Software By Design 02/05/2005 09:46 PM
In an email to business chiefs made public today, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, discussed the companies plans to make their software more interoperable with other systems.

"Interoperability is more pragmatic than other approaches, such as attempting to make all systems compatible at the code level, focusing solely on adding new layers of middleware that try to make all systems look and act the same, or seeking to make different systems interchangeable. With a common understanding of basic protocols, different software can interact smoothly with little or no specific knowledge of each other. The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols.

Simply put, interoperability is a proven approach for dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of the marketplace. Today I want to focus on two major thrusts of Microsoft’s product interoperability strategy: First, we continue to support customers’ needs for software that works well with what they have today. Second, we are working with the industry to define a new generation of software and Web services based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which enables software to efficiently share information and opens the door to a greater degree of "interoperability by design" across many different kinds of software.

Our goal is to harness all the power inherent in modern (and not so modern) business software, and enable them to work together so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities."

Gates continued to talk about how Microsoft planned to implement these ideas, and how it already had; Gates pointed to Office 2003 as an example of the company making use of XML technology. He also made the point that "interoperability is also confused with open source software". Microsoft face tough competition from Linux based products which are open source and allow users to modify the underlying system code. Part of the recent European Union judgement on Microsoft involved making the company make it easier for other software vendors to inter opt with their products. Previous messages from Gates delivered in a similar manner have proved to be major policy changes for Microsoft.

View: Gate's Letter in Full | Microsoft Interoperability Homepage

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Red Hat to build open-source community
in India

Red Hat to build open-source community
in India 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 26 2004 2:08PM GMT

Open Source Tools for eActivism

Open Source Tools for eActivism 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
Top 10 Open Source Tools For E-Activism.

Good article today listing the "Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism". Some of these I hadn't even heard of before (like ActionApps, completely new to me).

Open source tools are a natural fit for e-activism, since they are born of the same bootstrap, grassroots mentality as a good e-activist campaign. Plus, they're free :-) Or at least cheap -- and often far better in quality than their commercial counterparts. [Seen on Many-to-Many]

[Ant's Eye View]

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions. They wrote an article for Steven Clift's excellent Democracies Online Newswire.

1. ActionApps (On-line Magazine/Content Sharing) http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
2. PostNuke (Slash Forums/Portals) http://www.postnuke.com/
3. Drupal (Blogs) http://drupal.org/
4. Active (News Posting) http://www.active.org.au/doc/
5. phpList (eNewsletters) http://www.phplist.com/
6. phpBB (Forums) http://www.phpBB.com/
7. WebCards (eCards/email2friends) http://webcards.sourceforge.ne t/
8. TWiki (Wiki/Group Documentation) http://www.twiki.org/
9. Back-End (eActions/ePetitions) http://www.back-end.org/
10. FPDF (eLeaflets/ePosters) (Dynamic PDF/Graphic Generation) http://www.fpdf.org/

[Designing for a Civil Society]

Open source translation tools

Open source translation tools 03/23/2005 04:12 AM
Do you speak open source, but English is not your native language? You can turn to a growing list of user-friendly tools for translators, including specialized graphical tools like poEdit, KBabel, and Gtranslator.

NTeam project will build open-source
alternative to VSTS

NTeam project will build open-source
alternative to VSTS 04/12/2005 11:53 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 12 2005 2:31PM GMT

reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR
Tools

reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR
Tools 03/30/2005 11:26 AM
reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR/IM Tools
http://www.theresearcher .ca/index.html

reSearcher is an award-winning integrated suite of open source tools for locating and managing electronic information resources, designed for use by students and researchers in academic libraries. The four main modules of reSearcher are: 1) GODOT, a full-text link resolver and interlibrary holdings locator and requesting system. 2) CUFTS, a full-text link resolver, knowledgebase, and electronic collection management tool, 3) Citation Manager, a tool for capturing, managing and exporting bibliographic data in a wide range of formats, and 4) dbWiz, a cross-database search tool. reSearcher enables academic libraries to provide students and researchers with streamlined access to an integrated array of information resources. Together, reSearcher's components deliver rich portal-type functionality, presenting a unified interface to research databases, library and union catalogues, internet search engines, and other electronic information sources. reSearcher is developed by Simon Fraser University Library for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). reSearcher is used daily by students, faculty, and staff in universities, colleges, university-colleges and institutes throughout Western Canada. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Missing Open Source Security Tools?

Missing Open Source Security Tools? 06/28/2004 06:16 PM

Sun plots push for open-source tools

Sun plots push for open-source tools 12/07/2003 09:46 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 7 2003 9:35PM ET

Open source wireless tools emerge

Open source wireless tools emerge 09/23/2004 10:56 AM

Interoperable e-government Services

Interoperable e-government Services 11/18/2003 02:01 PM
European Parliament Nov 18 2003 12:57PM ET

Interoperable e-government Services (IDA
II)

Interoperable e-government Services (IDA
II) 11/11/2003 12:54 PM
European Parliament Nov 11 2003 11:34AM ET

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades 07/06/2004 05:01 PM
Saying that poorly made software costs enterprises more than $22 billion a year, the company's Rational division plans to standardize its automated software quality tools on an open-source platform.

Management Tools 'Priority One' for Open
Source

Management Tools 'Priority One' for Open
Source 12/12/2003 09:01 PM
In order to gain traction in enterprise, the open source movement must develop better management and support tools, customers say.

Microsoft shares Windows tools via open
source

Microsoft shares Windows tools via open
source 05/13/2004 06:22 PM
The software powerhouse releases into the open-source community a series of pre-existing templates that developers can freely modify.

IBM readies 'Atlantic' tools plus open
source effort

IBM readies 'Atlantic' tools plus open
source effort 07/19/2004 02:35 PM
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS -- IBM at the Rational Software Development User Conference here Monday revealed a planned upgrade to its Rational and IBM tools portfolio, dubbed ?Atlantic,? and also pledged to make some IBM products available under an open source format.

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development 06/28/2004 10:10 AM
At JavaOne, OpenLogic will launch itself as well as its BlueGlue developer tools suite of more than 100 open-source tools from projects such as Eclipse, MySQL, Apache and JBoss.

Managing Huge Networks with Open Source
Tools?

Managing Huge Networks with Open Source
Tools? 08/06/2004 11:49 PM
Slashdot Aug 7 2004 2:58AM GMT

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
Microsoft posted to SourceForge its Windows Template Library, a series of code snippets designed to make it easier for developers to create graphic interfaces for Windows programs. By Ina Fried, CNET News.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Open-Source Security Tools Touted at
InfoSec

Open-Source Security Tools Touted at
InfoSec 04/05/2005 10:21 PM
A security consultant encourages cash-strapped businesses to consider open-source security tools and utilities to help cope with the increasing spate of malicious hacker attacks.

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
Q&A: Progress Software's Joe Alsop explains the strategy behind the vendor's move to open source.

Eclipse To Pursue Open-Source Tools For
Parallel Computing (TechWeb)

Eclipse To Pursue Open-Source Tools For
Parallel Computing (TechWeb) 04/15/2005 04:48 AM
TechWeb - Effort will allow tools for building parallel-processing applications to work together.

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades (Ziff Davis)

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades (Ziff Davis) 07/06/2004 06:41 PM
Ziff Davis - Saying that poorly made software costs enterprises more than $22 billion a year, the company's Rational division plans to standardize its automated software quality tools on an open-source platform.

Company merges code-editing tools with
open-source framework

Company merges code-editing tools with
open-source framework 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
Java. It also allows developers to create and edit projects in 47 other languages, including C#, PHP, HTML, XML and COBOL. Although ...

Services start-up gives away open-source
bundle

Services start-up gives away open-source
bundle 03/30/2005 11:18 AM
SourceLabs releases a package of software that includes the Apache Web server, the MySQL database and PHP scripting tools.

Pharmaceutical services company opens
door to open source

Pharmaceutical services company opens
door to open source 03/28/2005 03:45 PM
EXP Pharmaceutical Services Corp. of Fremont, Calif., is finding freedom from huge licensing fees and increasing its ROI thanks to a recent migration from Windows and a proprietary software infrastructure to Linux and open source solutions.

Center Offers Open Source License
Defense, Legal Services

Center Offers Open Source License
Defense, Legal Services 02/01/2005 08:57 PM
The new Software Freedom Law Center—seeded by funding from the Open Source Development Labs$#151;will offer asset stewardship, licensing, license defense and litigation support, legal support, and lawyer training.

Open Source Intellectual Property
Services Vendor Nets $5M in Funding

Open Source Intellectual Property
Services Vendor Nets $5M in Funding 07/28/2004 04:50 PM
osOpinion Jul 28 2004 7:01PM GMT

Software Engineer - Open Source
Technologies (Perl/MySQL/Linux/XML/Web
Services)

Software Engineer - Open Source
Technologies (Perl/MySQL/Linux/XML/Web
Services) 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
O'Reilly & Associates - United States, CA, Sebastopol (2004-03-05)

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

Build the Tools and the Community Will
Come

Build the Tools and the Community Will
Come 06/05/2004 08:52 AM
Microsoft has a raft of new community-building tools on tap, the first of which it plans to launch next week. Redmond's counting on new RSS feeds, newsgroup readers and online-chat tools to provide the backbone for its new and improved community platform.

ATI Tray Tools. build 1.0.0.452

ATI Tray Tools. build 1.0.0.452 07/17/2004 06:10 PM

ATI Tray Tools. New build 1.0.0.330

ATI Tray Tools. New build 1.0.0.330 06/11/2004 04:51 AM

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.
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