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Lucid Imagination launched as the first commercial open source company dedicated to supporting developers and organizations using the installed Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. The Lucene search library currently ranks amongst the top-15 open source projects and is one of the top-5 Apache projects, with installations at over 4,000 companies worldwide. Lucene/Solr downloads have grown nearly ten-fold over the past three years, with a current run-rate of over 6,000 downloads a day. The Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project. As a participant in the community using this open source search technology, Lucid Imagination offers certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added software. The company's Web site serves as a knowledge portal for the Lucene community, with information and resources to help developers build and deploy Lucene-based solutions. Through the Lucid Imagination knowledge portal, the company offers: free certified distributions, support subscriptions, training and certification, consulting services, and software such as Solr Gaze, an open source visual framework for monitoring Solr performance. http://www.lucidimagination.com/

Hippo has launched version 7.0 of its Content Management System, Hippo CMS. Hippo CMS 7.0 is an enterprise-class open source software product designed for businesses that have a large quantity of files, documents and web content that need to be captured, stored, preserved and delivered internally and externally. Version 7.0 features a completely new technological core based on Apache Jackrabbit, introducing full JSR 170 compliancy. The GUI technology moved to Apache Wicket enabling a modern AJAX GUI with drag drop and auto-save functionality. Version 7.0 is extensible, allowing organizations to choose from a wide variety of plug-ins in order to address their precise needs for managing and utilizing their enterprise content. This flexible architecture also allows developers to easily add custom functionality if no suitable plug-in is available. The Hippo architecture now has a faceted repository based on Apache Lucene and Apache Jackrabbit. The faceted repository introduces 'drop and start' dynamic categorization of content; allowing organizations to speed up implementation. Hippo CMS 7.0 is open source software that is free to download at http://www.onehippo.org

Kaltura, Inc. announced that it has released version 1.0 of its "All in One" video module for Drupal. The Kaltura module handles every aspect of rich-media, allowing Drupal site-builders to customize, configure, and manage rich media functionalities that include uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing of video, audio, and photo files. Kaltura's "All in One" video module was developed using the open source Kaltura code. It is specifically tailored for Drupal, and integrates with Drupal's features and modules, such as CCK, Views, cron, metadata, permissions and taxonomy. The module is currently compatible with Drupal 6 (a Drupal 5 compatible version will be available soon). http://www.kaltura.com

The forthcoming GlobalSight open source Translation Management System (TMS), sponsored by Welocalize, will provide support for Clay Tablet 2.0 to enable connectivity to a wide variety of content management systems (CMS) or content repositories. This approach provides "out of the box" connectivity to a wide range of CMS' and integration possibilities with most others. GlobalSight will launch on January 5, 2009 as an open source TMS product that provides a scalable translation management platform for companies to manage, translate and deliver global content. Current development efforts have focused on transitioning the product to open source by replacing several third-party software components with open source equivalents. http://www.globalsight.com, http://www.welocalize.com, http://www.Clay-Tablet.com

IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project. The ODF Toolkit will use an initial software code contribution from Sun to provide developers with an Application Programming Interface (API) for reading, writing and manipulating ODF documents. One part of the initial code contribution is an ODF Validator, a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks certain conformance criteria. The Toolkit targets developers who want to create new applications and solutions ranging from content management, business workflows and activities to Web-based document solutions. The ODF Toolkit Union will complement other industry efforts such as the ODF standardization work done at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). The ODF Toolkit open source software project is established at http://odftoolkit.org

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0. The latest certified build adds Alfresco Share, a new collaborative content solution, a draft implementation of CMIS specification, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol support to Alfresco's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Alfresco's Web 2.0 functionality enables organizations to rollout collaborative content solutions; Organizations can support virtual team collaboration for home and distributed working, as well as support initiatives for employee knowledge retention and access best practice information. Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.0 includes Alfresco Share, which is built on Alfresco's ECM repository and delivers collaborative content management. Alfresco Share helps to simplify capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. http://www.alfresco.com/

Simplexo and Ingres announced a partnership aimed to change not only the way, but the speed in which people search and retrieve critical business information. Simplexo provides "single click" information retrieval, enabling companies to simultaneously and securely search both structured and unstructured data sources in real-time. By joining forces with Ingres, the real time enterprise search capability of Simplexo Enterprise will complement the Ingres IceBreaker BI Appliance, which delivers all an organization's business intelligence needs from reporting, analysis, and dashboards to complete data integration with existing systems. The partnership with Simplexo also adds to the current partnerships Ingres has in place with JasperSoft in business intelligence and Alfresco in content management. http://www.simplexo.com, http://www.ingres.com

Alfresco Software announced the availability of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft implementation. As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who wish to explore the draft specification. The objective of the draft CMIS specification is to deliver a common, REST or Web Services, API that can be used to develop write-once, run- anywhere, next generation content and social applications. Following the announcement of the planned submission of the CMIS specification to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), Alfresco has made available the following for preview: Support for the CMIS REST and Web Services bindings allowing client applications to connect to, navigate, read, and create content against the Alfresco content repository; Support for the CMIS Query Language providing SQL-like querying of the repository including location, properties, and full-text; and A CMIS Test Suite to allow compliance compatibility testing against any CMIS compliant REST Binding. In order to drive the ongoing development and discussion of the draft technical specification, Alfresco will shortly make available CMIS webinars and tutorials. http://www.alfresco.com

TWIKI.NET, a provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki. TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for an SQL-like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications. This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun Fire T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Gateway System. http://www.twiki.org/

Kentico Software released a free version of its product, Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The Free Edition allows customers to build and manage Web sites, online stores, intranets and Web 2.0 community sites. Previously, Kentico has offered only commercial licenses of its software. The new Free Edition supports WYSIWYG editing, search engine optimization, news, blogs, RSS feeds, newsletters, forums, polls, online forms, a product catalog with shopping cart, an image gallery and many other features. It also comes bundled with three Web site templates - a corporate site, online store and personal site. Web developers can create their own web sites with custom design and they can extend the system with custom code. The Free Edition can be used for both commercial and personal sites without any license fees. It is intended primarily for smaller Web sites with up to 1000 pages and a single content editor. The users of the Free Edition are required to put the Kentico logo to the footer of their Web site. http://www.kentico.com/