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Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web
Posted 03 Apr 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Clients, Community, Europe, Java, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Mobile, Open, Open Source, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Solutions, Switzerland, telco, telecom, User Experience, Web 2.0

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was awarded twice with this accolade which honours Switzerland’s top websites. me2me was awarded the Best of Swiss Web Technology Innovation Silver Award and the Business Efficiency Bronze Award 2009. The project was also a nominee for the 2009 Master of Swiss Web.   + Read more

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John EckmanTags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. + Read more

Springsource releases SpringSource Application Platform
Posted 06 May 2008 by Uli RomahnTags: Java, Spring, Springframework, SpringSource

On the evening of April 30th, Springsource released their first public beta of the SpringSource Application Platform - or S2AP in short. Springsource and the Spring community celebrates this as the next quantum leap in Java-based application development. So, what is so new and great about this: S2AP combines the power of Spring with the standards of OSGi. If you got interested and want to learn more about it, go here. You can also register and participate in the public beta program here. + Read more

Open Source Ecommerce - Assembled
Posted 06 Feb 2008 by Olivier PépinTags: Application Stategy, Architecture, Assembly Methodology, CRM, Ecommerce, Enterprise applications, Europe, Integrated Assembly Environment, Java, Mule ESB, Open Source, osCommerce, PHP, Platform, Re-platforming, SOA, Solutions, Sugar CRM, SugarCRM, Web 2.0

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. + Read more

Google Android, OpenMoko, and the iPhone
Posted 08 Jan 2008 by John EckmanTags: iPhone, Java, Mobile, Open Hardware, Open Source, OpenMoko, Platform

2007 has been an interesting year, to say the least, for those interested in developing and deploying applications on phones. + Read more

The Room 2.0 architecture as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds?
Posted 20 Dec 2007 by Olivier PépinTags: Architecture, Java, PHP, SOA, Web 2.0

With a Java Enterprise back-end (EJB3/JSR-181 service layer on JBoss Application Server), and a user interface that relies on a LAMP stack the Room 2.0 assembly as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds. The back-end leveraging JEE persistence, transaction management, integration of payment, hotel management systems and third party content and service providers. The user interface is build on top of PHP symphony framework and Ajax libraries, perfectly suited for web development and integrates with the back-end via SOAP web-services. + Read more