CIA invests in open source

The company in charge of providing technology to the US intelligence community has invested in an open source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies, reports PC World.

In-Q-Tel is investing in Lucid Imagination, which provides support, maintenance, training and add-on software for the Apache Software Foundation's Lucene and Solr search projects.

Lucene is an information retrieval library that can be used for full-text indexing and search and Solr is an enterprise-search server based on Lucene.

Opennet Middle East and Africa, the master distributor and authorised certified training centre of Red Hat Linux products for Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has unveiled open source support packages targeted specifically at the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, states AME Info.

These packages, available at different levels, include support for up to four servers, phone and e-mail support, dedicated technical account manager, scheduled visits including workshops, knowledge transfer and technical presentations, incident visits, and training on the essentials at the system administration level with the option to earn Red Hat Certified Technician certification.

“With SMEs today beginning to embrace open source applications, their need for top-notch support services has prompted our new offering to address these requirements,' says David Allinson, GM at Opennet MEA.

Two Java-based portal projects, eXo Platform SAS and Red Hat's JBoss, are merging code bases in order to create a best of breed result through their combined strengths, reports CMS Wire.

The goal is to merge JBoss Portal, eXo's Portal and eXo's Java Client Repository (JCR) into a single project that strikes the right balance of robustness and usability.

According to Red Hat's Mark Little, senior director of middleware engineering, “The eXo portal has some impressive functionality in terms of ease of use, UI flexibility and straightforward management administration; JBoss.org's current portal project has a robust engine, performance and security features."