Marlboro, NJ (November 23, 2009) - MXsense Solutions, Inc. today announced a new version of its MXsense Web-based email archiving solution which now supports Linux and Unix operating systems. Organizations running Sendmail and compliant email servers on Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX can now take full advantage of MXsense. This new version is available now and expands on the company's widely deployed email archiving platform for Microsoft Exchange environments.

MXsense is designed to help organisations manage the ever-growing volume of information and intelligence stored in email communications and attachments. As a cloud-based email archiving solution, MXsense provides a powerful search engine with built-in indexing and retrieval features, giving users full access to their personal and corporate "extended inbox." A fully-managed solution, MXsense does not require the installation and management of client software or on-premise equipment. All archived email is securely stored and managed in our data center.

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Piwik is an open source downloadable web analytics software which aims to provide an alternative to Google Analytics that you can run on your own server. The project was previously known as phpMyVisites and is currently maintained by OpenX, the company behind the free OpenX ad server. Piwik provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages ... and much more.

Piwik could be integrated with your website as JavaScript code that you insert manually or using one of the existing plugins. With Piwik you will have your own data, you can build your own custom plugins, and you will have a fully customizable interface where you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display and create a report especially tailored to you. The solution allow you also to embed your stats in your website, that's great if you want to share live stats about your visitors for advertisers. Require PHP 5.1+ and Mysql, the installation process is automatic and takes less than 5 minutes. Released under a GPL license.

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Adobe Systems have just released two new flash technologies under the Mozilla Public License. The first Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) is part of the Strobe project which aims to establish an open standard for flash based media players. Open Source Media Framework enables developers to easily assemble pluggable components to create high-quality, full-featured playback experiences. The open aspect of the framework enables collaborative development for web video monetization, with lower costs and faster turnaround.

The second initiative is Text Layout Framework (TLF), an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web.

Below the press release :

SAN JOSE, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Nev. - April 20, 2009 - Today at the 2009 NAB Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced a new software framework for building media players that extends the capabilities of the Adobe® Flash® Platform. Code-named "Strobe," the framework will help establish an open industry standard for media players and offer production-ready software components to streamline the development of custom media players, reducing the time content publishers spend creating their own playback technologies. The framework will enable developers using Flash technologies to quickly and easily add rich functionality-such as advertising, user measurement and tracking, and social network integration-into new custom players that can be branded for individual content owners.

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OrangeHRM is a project that started about three years ago and has grown significantly since then. Today the project reached more than 230,000 downloads, were elected the "Project of the month" in December 2008 by Sourceforge.net and listed at the top 10 projects list.

OrangeHRM is Leading Open Source HRM that offers a flexible and easy to use solution for small and medium sized companies free of charge. By providing modules for personnel information management, employee self service, leave, time & attendance‚ benefits and recruitment companies are able to manage the crucial organization asset – people. The combination of these modules into one application assures the perfect platform for re-engineering and aligning your HR processes along with the organizational goals.

"With a great community collaborating on OrangeHRM, the solution have been translated to 12 different languages and have customers all over the world", told us Carlos Ricci - Marketing Team OrangeHRM Inc, he added "we are helping many companies around the world to acquire a both free and comprehensive HRM system. This is a good choice for companies in this financial crisis time, once HR is the first area to have cut in the budget and Open Source products enable them to save money and keep investments."

More information and download at http://www.orangehrm.com, demo is also available here. OrangeHRM is released under GNU General Public License

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• Open Source Software can boost innovation and competitiveness
• Significant challenges remain: a cultural shift is needed

Berlin, Guangzhou, Madrid, Paris, Roma, Sao Paulo: Qualipso, a unique international alliance of ICT industry players, SMEs, research, public sector bodies and academics, whose role it is to help industry and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software (OSS) recently published the report of its annual Conference, bringing together top speakers and participants from nearly 30 countries.

The conference focus was on highlighting the strengths and challenges of Open Source Software, the state of the market, and future trends.

Because of its capacity to boost innovation and competitiveness, Open Source Software (OSS) could act as a catalyst for restructuring the entire industry, acting as a lever for the transformation of the economy towards a service-based model. Being innovative, flexible and ultra-accessible so it can be skillfully adapted for both high-end solutions or low-cost software for the general public means OSS could contribute to a profound transformation of the IT ecosystem.

However, despite many successes, OSS uptake remains slowed by certain myths and misconceptions in the industry, and some barriers are still perceived by mainstream users, most notably: security, availability of services and support, TCO, legal/IP issues and viability. OSS stakeholders will have to overcome these barriers for mainstream adoption.

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Summer is getting closer, Google Summer of Code 2008 also, and like every year, PHP is taking part of the GSoC. A list of project's ideas is already available at PHP Wiki including :

- PECL, Website Improvements, Windows Build support improvements
- Automatic Code Checker
- Zend bytecode to LLVM bitcode converter
- Algorithm Optimizations
- Implement Unicode into PHP 6
- Replace auto* with CMake
- Build Infrastructure and macro bindings for writing extension in D
- Put Ilia's Optimizer in APC
- Rewrite the run-tests.php script
- PhD: The PHP based Docbook renderer
- PHPUnit
- PHP-GTK
- Pave the way for One-Bugtracker-Rules-Them-All
- Anonymous functions and closures and other missing object oriented features

Students are always welcomed to suggest other new ideas for project or application. Over the past three years, the Google summer of Code has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.

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