Novell Session at Cloud Expo
Novell and Ingres Corporation on Wednesday announced the Ingres database is
available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program. Both
companies have entered into a cooperative agreement to make it easier and
more cost-effective for independent software vendors (ISVs) and system
integrators (SIs) to build appliances that deliver business critical software
applications which require an enterprise-class database. As part of the
agreement, Novell and Ingres will jointly support and market the SUSE Studio
Appliance Template for Ingres Database to a large ecosystem of ISVs who are
seeking a simplified appliance infrastructure.
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The SUSE Studio Appliance Template for Ingres Database creates a single,
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OpenERP - The Belgium based open source ERP provider recently taking mind of
its developments in India has announced for a community involvement which
would help them create a low cost solution for the Indian Market. The open
source market in India has recently taken a giant leap and the company looks
forward to cash-in on this opportunity through localized implementations.
The significant growth of the partner network and the requests from various
parts of the sub-continental country can be seen as the pre-cursor of this
business decision. OpenERP already has its development and ... (more)
Three months after publicly starting down the road to imprint its NDA on the
cloud by establishing a large-scale open source cloud platform called
OpenStack free for anybody to use, Rackspace Hosting, its BFF NASA and a
reportedly growing OpenStack community made their first official code drop
Thursday.
The milestone is called Austin - they're doing this alphabetically so
presumably they have a ways to go - and it includes the all-important Amazon
EC2-challenging OpenStack Compute provisioning engine that's supposed to
blend the best of the Rackspace Cloud Servers widgetry that ... (more)
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Google announced that they would open source the PowerMeter API that
integrates home energy monitoring devices directly into Google's Power meter
. The Google meter is a free software tool that lets you monitor your
personal energy consumption from iGoogle homepage so that you can make more
efficient use of power at home.
Using the open standards based Apps interface, developers can now customize
the energy information available to customers while assuring privacy. Google
also has provided resources for utility service providers and device makers
in terms of samples and impleme... (more)