Aghreni Technologies wishes open source community on Software Freedom Day 2008

Today, world over, programmers who are very passionate about building free and open source software are celebrating the Software Freedom Day (SFD). Software Freedom Day is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software to educate and promote public, academic, business and government institutions in adopting open source software for greater benefits of all.

This year, SFD is being held on Saturday, 20 September 2008. Technology leaders like Sun, Google, Canonical, Zenoss, Linode, BitePR, DKUUG, Mindtouch along with volunteers comprised of over 600 teams in 100 countries are supporting this global event to help raise awareness of the virtues of free software and encourage its use.

For more information visit http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.

Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.

Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com

Sun plans open source push

Sun has thrown its weight behind this month's Software freedome day 2008 and called the firms and consumers alike to embrace open source.

Sun is calling on the open source community and its own staff to cooperate in a global education programme designed to raise awareness of the technologies.

Sun will host over 100 events as part of the initiative, and its staff in 60 of its worldwide office had aready committed their time and support.

The company also plans to equip universities and other educational establishments with free and open source technologies to aid learning.

For more details.
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/index.jsp
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2226007/sun-plans-software-freedom-day

Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com/ or drop an email at info@aghreni.com

Open source BI and ERP firms partner to minimise complexity

Two open source companies have partnered to provide an integrated BI and ERP offering that should minimize the complexity that an open source deployment typically renders.

Ease of deployment is the goal for organizations looking to deploy a BI and ERP component in their IT infrastructure because "in general, [open source] is great technology but sometimes it's a little bit too techie,"

Openbravo S.L., a Pamplona, Spain-based vendor of open source ERP and point-of-sale systems and Orlando, Florida-based Pentaho Corp. offers open source BI systems have partnered to provide seamless deployment of both the platforms.

The partnereship will provide Technologies from Openbravo and Pentaho for companies to solve business problems with simplicity and hide of complexity. Hence it is possible to focus on business problems than technology configuration problems.

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions.

Aghreni's business solutions practices provides consulting and implementation services major open source ERP, BI, Content Management and Email Marketing applications.

Aghreni provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com

Open Source promotion and adoption in Asian countries gathers momentum

The commission on Informatics and Communications Technology (CICT) plans to create a national body to promote the adoption of open source technologies.

The Philippines is scheduled to host in October a regional open source conference which will gather representations from 21 countries to sign an agreement. The said agreement will push for cooperation among these countries in the area of open source. This is expected to benefit most of the emerging markets in Asia.

Benifits of an Open Source Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright.

SOA requires the integration of many varied processes, applications, and technologies that are difficult to mesh seamlessly, meaning incompatibility, scalability, and flexibility issues often arise. The license-fee structure of traditional software can also limit options and add cost. Turning to open source technology can help alleviate these issues and accelerate deployment, as well as business adoption.

Open source has become a staple of enterprise-class IT as concerns about stability, security, and support fall away. Open source is as stable, secure, and well supported as proprietary solutions, if not more so. In addition, open source SOA solutions provide:
-- Simplicity. Open source solutions are easy to find and easy to implement, with many architects and developers being familiar with the core mechanics of the technology. Open source developers are motivated by their communities to deliver easy-to-use frameworks and platforms. It also enables enterprises to rapidly create solutions to deliver tangible, measurable benefits.
-- Openness. The flexibility inherent in open source allows for more freedom and personalization of the solution than proprietary offerings, and means that an organization will see more value relevant to its operations from the installation.
-- Affordability. The open source subscription model makes SOA products less expensive than proprietary tool sets.

The benefits of open source SOA solutions can be realized in each of the six stages of the SOA evolution: 1) business process understanding; 2) IT assessment; 3) SOA design/determination; 4) SOA service enablement; 5) SOA integration and governance infrastructure; and 6) process orchestration/composition.

For the first three steps, work efforts are focused on the business processes, current IT design and SOA design, and the open source subscription model offers a more affordable and flexible pricing structure than traditional SOA solutions. That helps the SOA design work proceed more quickly without concern about per-CPU license fees.

The advantages of open source solutions are particularly evident during the final three steps in the process.

In the fourth stage, SOA service enablement, organizations must determine how application and data services will be developed and deployed. Enlisting an open source application server and/or data services platform gives great flexibility. While enjoying the same level of support and security as a commercial offering, architects and developers can more easily develop and deploy platforms that enable greater developer productivity and speed to solution. Additionally, the community model drives feature and quality requirements into these platforms that these architects and developers look for.

The fifth step of the SOA evolution is integration and governance infrastructure, the "glue" of the entire deployment that makes it work. Architects need to choose how services, applications and users will interact and communicate with one another. One major decision usually made in this stage involves the choice of an enterprise service bus (ESB), essentially the intelligent integration fabric in the SOA deployment.

Here again, open source proves to be a good and affordable option. The flexible and scalable nature of the technology, from embedded installations to small or large installations, means if the scope or another criteria of the project suddenly changes, the key components of the open source SOA implementation (the ESB) will not have to be thrown away and reselected.

The final stage of SOA is to understand how business processes and rules will be developed and deployed using the SOA services and integration fabric. Process orchestration automates the workflow and business rules of the business process, bringing the SOA to life. Adopting an open source SOA platform that accommodates multiple integration paradigms -- such as enterprise application integration technologies, ESB or event driven architecture -- provides additional flexibility and cost savings when it comes to business process automation because it helps ensure components can be reused.

An open source SOA platform allows for use of the widest range of current and future integration, messaging and component model technologies.

How exactly do these benefits apply to a real-life example of an SOA implementation? A telecom company realized its existing billing and service-order management platform could not handle the processes required for more complex telecommunication services, and decided to bridge the gap in data/process flow between its autonomous data sources and applications using SOA.

The company selected an open source solution for its SOA implementation needs, choosing an open source data services and SOA platform for the integration of the new billing system. IT needed the flexibility and scalability of open source, as well as freedom from licensing costs, to be able to scale the implementation according to the size of regional operations.

After deploying the open source solution, the company experienced an immediate, major improvement in productivity and a reduction in operating costs. The architect points to the open source solution as the reason, which now allows the company to provision 80 percent of its orders automatically, with little or no human intervention. The SOA also has reduced service provisioning time from weeks to minutes, increasing both user and employee satisfaction.

When considering an open source solution for SOA, remember the acronym also stands for Simplicity, Openness and Affordability. These are the biggest benefits that open source brings to an SOA implementation, with a lightweight footprint, flexible and scalable architecture, and little to no cost associated with the technology itself. Open source is a proven winner in enterprise deployments -- now it's time for SOA architects to realize how much open source has to offer to them.

Enterprises tapping the benefits of using open source software and contributing to it

Open source model is beginning to mature and move beyond ISVs and into the enterprise world. A new trend in Eclipse indicates that enterprises are beginning to develop and contribute code to Eclipse projects.

The Eclipse Swordfish, TigerStripe, Open Financial Market platform and Open System Engineering Environment Projects are all based on code contributed by enterprises that use open-source technology.

This means the promise and principle of open source has reached the enterprise, in that not only are enterprises adopting open-source technology for internal development projects, they are using it to develop technology that they in turn want to contribute back to the community.

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India realising the potential of open-source technologies and solutions and its impact on society and enterprises, is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions. It provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com

Release of Desktop Linux environment BOSS by India's CDAC

India's Premier Research and Development organization Center for Development of Advanced Computing has released BOSS (Bharat Operating Systems Solution) Linux, a desktop OS targeted at Government and Education institutions with localization support.

BOSS OS is based on Debian Common Core (DCC) with Gnome as the desktop enviornment.

The idea behind BOSS is to popularise penetration of Linux in desktop environment, where its penetration level is very low (3% of the market share) compared to server market share which stands at 53%.

BOSS Linux OS is bundled with BharateeyaOO, a derivative of Open Office Suite which supports commonly used document types and open standard file types apart from utiliites such as Internet browser, email client, internet messaging client, pdf viewers and important features like bulk document converter and device drivers required for Government domain. The desktop environment and applications have been localised so that Indian languages are used and they have an Indian look and feel.

With the introduction of BOSS linux desktop environment, Open source usage is gathering momentum in India through government and academic institutions.

For more details, visit URL http://www.bosslinux.in/

Google Chrome - an open source browser

Google has published details of its open source browser Chrome that is soon going to be available for the users.

With Google providing strong signal to open source movement, the Open Source movement and availability of best products and solutions will gather further momentum.

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions. It provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com

Ten Open source companies to watch

What has happened is a clear evolution of a community that has grown up and produced intelligent, cutting-edge technologies with an eye on making computing faster, smarter and cheaper for corporate users. Companies like Openmoko are challenging the mobile device market with its notion that users should control what applications are installed. Others like XAware and SnapLogic are opening up data integration possibilities, and still more are tangling with virtualization, databases, and trading systems. Along with a company accurately called Untangle, the companies' point is to make computing less complex.

The decision is no longer a question of open source, but about what product is best at solving computing problems regardless of how it was built.

Here is a look at 10 companies to watch.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090208-open-to-watch.html

Aghreni technologies started at Banglore, India is focussing on providing open source technology services and solutions. It provides product incubation and services on open source technologies like Java, perl and php. It has an interesting mix of services on open source technologies and trying to promote them in a big way. It has also embarked in creating the talent pool locally through their education services targetted at college students who would like to build their career on open source technologies early in their college.

For more information on the company, you can visit their website http://www.aghreni.com or drop an email at info@aghreni.com