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A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities enterprises require, certain shortcomings remain. Open source BI carries the same general benefits as other open source software segments, from lower initial costs to more flexible support and integration options compared to [...]

The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory for a single application and its data, the company announced this week. The software, Ehcache 2.2, can also hold up to several hundred million Java objects in a single cache, [...]

A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference. Researchers Nate Lawson and Taylor Nelson say they’ve discovered a basic security flaw that affects dozens of open-source software libraries [...]

Google’s Orkut social networking site has been beset with bugs lately, leading the company to apologize for spotty service. Orkut is an online community intended to make participants’ social life more active and stimulating. The Orkut engineering team is working to address recent issues with the site, said Eduardo Thuler, Orkut product manager at Google, [...]

When CIO Daniel Chan was first prompted to use open-source software, cost savings weren’t top of mind. He was mainly interested in how open source would enable his IT group at the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to put ideas into action more quickly. In his government office, the procurement process [...]

WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing. Available as of November 16, the platform features the company’s Cloud Virtual Machines; Cloud Connectors, for secure cloud services; and multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. [ Last week, a Unisys executive let slip that cloud computing can save money by eliminating U.S. jobs. [...]