Glenn Rossman

SOA & WOA Magazine Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services.  The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy for IT managers to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits. Likewise is also the only solution to provide 100 percent native support for Apple’s Workgroup Manager application Included in the starter packs are added support, upgrades and training services so customers can more easily take advantage of advanced features, such as group policy, auditing and reporting fo... (more)

Open Source Content Management Software Company New CEO

eZ Systems announced that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately. Rau brings 25 years of management experience from the international IT and software industry, He takes over the CEO positon from co-founder Aleksander Farstad, who will become chief business development officer. With innovative, leading-edge product design and a highly... (more)

Likewise Releases Open Source Software for File Sharing Among Linux, Mac, Unix and Windows

BELLEVUE, Wash., September 10, 2009 - Likewise announced today that it is releasing a high-performance, Windows-compatible file server, Likewise-CIFS. It is designed for independent software vendors and large organizations that require access to Linux, Unix, and Mac servers from Windows computers. Likewise-CIFS is available at www.likewiseopen.org and in Likewise Open 5.3 under GPLv2 lice... (more)

Open-Xchange and SugarCRM Partner to Combine Open Source Collaboration

Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software. The integration enables users to gather and aggregate data from their social network profiles (such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Xing), as w... (more)

Likewise Authentication Software Supports Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mixed Network Integration on Ulitzer Likewise announced today availability of both Likewise Open 5.3 and Likewise Enterprise 5.3 software that supports Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, enabling those systems to be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open allows computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard to authenticate with an organization's existing Active Directory. ... (more)