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Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications/India PRwire/ – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Facebook® today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free and open source programming language library that is expected to be a complete resource supporting all Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs) including Facebook Connect. Documentation, example applications and code are now available at http://www.adobe.com/go/facebook for developers to get started building rich applications with Adobe Flash and Flex software, and Facebook Platform. Quotes Ethan Beard, director of platform marketing, Facebook “Our vision is to empower the world's developers to make the Web more social with Facebook Platform and through Facebook Connect,” said Ethan Beard, director of platform marketing, Facebook. “With our official support of the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform, our innovative community of developers can more easily use the Adobe Flash Platform to create the next generation of applications that will allow users to engage with the people they care about in even more expressive ways.” Bryant Macy, director of product marketing for the Platform Business Unit, Adobe “Combining social functionality with the Adobe Flash Platform gives the millions of Flash developers the tools to create Web experiences that are truly differentiated,” said Bryant Macy, director of product marketing for the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “Flash developers are already creating great applications for Facebook, and the new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform will accelerate the pace of social innovation on the Web.” Sebastien de Halleux, chief operating officer and co-founder of Playfish “Since 2007, Playfish has leveraged Facebook Platform and the Flash Platform to create fun and engaging social games that are now played by more than 60 million registered users around the world,” said Sebastien de Halleux, chief operating officer and co-founder of Playfish. “We believe social networks are the next generation game platform and today's announcement is a further step toward creating experiences that are more social and visually compelling.” Adobe Flash Platform Powers Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Supports All Facebook APIs
Adobe Flash Platform: Innovation That Stands Out, Technology That Fits In · The Adobe Flash Platform is a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers for the development of Web applications, content and video that runs consistently across operating systems and devices. · Adobe Flash Player content reaches over 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops, and Adobe Flash technology is the No. 1 platform for video on the Web. Availability The ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform is available immediately as a free download along with developer documentation and tutorials at http://www.adobe.com/go/facebook. Adobe at Web 2.0 Expo 2009 · Web 2.0 Expo attendees come to the Adobe booth (#615) on Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2 to meet with Adobe and Facebook representatives to learn more about the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform. · Watch the keynote address of Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch on Thursday, April 2 at 9:50 a.m. PST. Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com. About Facebook Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. Millions of users from around the world connect and share information on Facebook through the social graph, the network of connections and relationships between people. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. © 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, ActionScript and Flash are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Facebook® is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Sons India Software bags a SAP Project/India PRwire/ – Sons India Software Pvt Ltd. a global consulting and IT services provider, announced today that it was awarded a contract to implement SAP Business All-in-One solutions for Dodalla Dairy & Farm Products, one of the leading dairy processors in India. The solution automates and integrates key business processes across the company, speeding workflow, improving quality, and lowering costs."Managing our supply — especially procurement and pricing — is a complex process that will now be greatly simplified. Stand-alone processes will be integrated for the first time, and we will be able to monitor product quality at multiple points during procurement and production, enabling us to deliver the freshest quality products to customers at lower costs," Vishnu Vardhan, Managing Director, Dodalla Dairy & Farm Products said. "We selected Sons India Software for their unrivaled SAP credentials, their strong domain knowledge, and their ability to deliver a cost-effective solution in less time. Sons India Software also demonstrated excellent partnership abilities — especially to a small and mid-sized enterprise and their successful Proof of Concept demonstration means lower risk and faster deployment," he added. Sons India Software's solution is based on SAP(R: 28.26, -1.5492, -5.2%) Business All-in-One, along with SAP's Best Practices, and offers complete end-to-end business process integration across financial accounting, materials management, quality management, milk processing, milk procurement, sales and distribution and plant maintenance. Once implemented, the solution will streamline procurement and accounting, ensure that returnable packaging are tracked, and provide complete information about the availability of products at different locations. "Sons India Software understands the business challenges faced by Dodalla Dairy & Farm Products, and will deliver a powerful, proven solution to transform their entire Procurement-to-Sales process," said Pavan Harishha, Global Head, SAP and Managed Testing Practices at Sons India Software Pvt Ltd. "Decision-makers at Dodalla will have much faster access to more — and more accurate — information from across their enterprise, resulting in improved operational efficiency and effectiveness," he added. Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire Sons India Software Pvt Ltd was incorporated in 2000. We currently provide IT Services and have consultants specializing in the following: ERP Implementation Services with extensive expertise in SAP solutions Our key differentiators is Sons India Software's Global Delivery Model, which envisages offshore-based (currently India-based) IT services such as application development, system maintenance, Internet consulting and establishing dedicated IT software development centers for our larger customers. If you are implementing any of the above technologies to integrate your business processes and need to outsource your development work or supplement your existing team with top-of-the-line technical professionals, then we are your Partners in Success. Open TerracottaTerracotta is open source infrastructure software that makes it inexpensive and easy to scale a Java application to as many computers as needed, without the usual custom application code and databases used to share data in a cluster. Terracotta manages mission critical data using Network-Attached Memory (NAM) technology. NAM enables Terracotta to cluster Java Virtual Machines [...] CheckStyle – Java Code Management ToolCheckstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard. iText – Free Java PDF LibraryiText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 11/India PRwire/ – Novell today announced the availability of SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11, the operating system designed for the next-generation data center. As data centers become more heterogeneous, customers are demanding a cost-effective platform that can run their applications reliably and with high performance on any hardware platform and hypervisor as well as in appliances and cloud computing infrastructures. With SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell is delivering the leading mission-critical Linux* platform to allow customers to economically deploy workloads wherever and however they choose, with complete support from Novell and its global partner ecosystem of solution and hardware providers and independent software vendors (ISVs). “A recent survey1 conducted by IDC and sponsored by Novell confirmed that around 50 percent of IT executives are planning to increase their adoption of Linux server and desktop technologies this year because of the economic downturn,” said Jeff Jaffe, chief technology officer at Novell. “With the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell is helping IT professionals save money while addressing other key issues identified in the survey, such as interoperability, support for mission-critical computing and the flexibility to deploy Linux in a wide range of environments.” SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 delivers innovations across the enterprise. The platform contains major enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and delivers two new extensions – SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono® Extension, the only product that enables customers to run fully supported Microsoft* .NET-based applications on Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, a clustering product that ensures uptime for mission-critical applications while slashing the cost of ownership for high availability. As the operating system for the next-generation IT infrastructure, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 was designed using three core themes: ubiquity, interoperability and mission-critical computing. “As virtualization realizes its full potential and cloud computing begins to transform the data center, operating systems need to be engineered to enable these new solutions,” said Matt Eastwood, group vice president at IDC. “By fully supporting physical, virtual, appliance and cloud computing models with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell can help customers at each step in the evolution of the data center. For customers seeking an operating system that works with their existing IT infrastructure while reducing the cost of enterprise computing, Novell has delivered SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and a comprehensive set of solutions for identity, security and systems management.” World-class Partner Ecosystem As part of a complete solution, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be supported by Novell's global strategic partners – including Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle and SAP AG – and its entire ecosystem of solution, integration, hardware and software partners. Together, Novell with its partners deliver the world-class implementation, technical support and training services customers have come to expect. Novell has also invested significant resources in building an expansive independent software vendor application catalog for SUSE Linux Enterprise. “SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 has been designed with both customers and partners in mind,” said Ken Simon, vice president of Sales, Enterico Division of Continental Resources. “We have collaborated with Novell to ensure our customer requirements have been reflected in the next generation of the product. Combined with the large ISV ecosystem surrounding the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, we can now deliver the complete, integrated solutions that our customers are seeking.” Paul Miller, vice president of Marketing, Enterprise Servers and Storage at HP, said, “In today’s economy, customers find it increasingly important to reduce costs yet extract more value and flexibility from their technology environment. Deploying Linux for highly available core business applications is a reality that HP and Novell are delivering today on HP Integrity and ProLiant servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise.” Doug Fisher, vice president, Intel Software and Services Group, and general manager, Systems Software Division, said, “From desktop to data center, for physical or virtual environments, and for the new wave of mobile devices and appliances, SUSE Linux Enterprise running on Intel processors provides the flexibility customers need. Intel is a strong supporter of Linux running demanding virtualized workloads in the enterprise, and we're very pleased to continue to support Novell with the launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.” Ted MacLean, general manager of strategic alliances & licensing at Microsoft, said, “Customers place a very high value on the interoperability and strong technical cooperation between Microsoft and Novell, and the new release of SUSE Linux Enterprise continues that ground-breaking innovation. The scale and scope of the strategic agreement with Novell is unique, and provides customers with innovative solutions for mixed-source environments, both physical and virtual.” Advanced Linux Management Giving customers a powerful option to manage their Linux systems, Novell is also announcing today the availability of Novell® ZENworks® Linux Management 7.3, which extends policy-driven automation to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. Managing both desktop and server systems, ZENworks Linux Management makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources with advanced policies for desktops and servers. When used with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, ZENworks Linux Management enables customers to reduce the time and cost spent managing their IT infrastructure. Ubiquity: Linux how you want it, where you want it Customers need unparalleled flexibility from their operating systems. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 runs on the leading hardware platforms, including x86-32, x86-64, Itanium*, IBM* POWER* and IBM System z*. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 has been optimized to run at near-native performance on all major hypervisors, including VMware* ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen*. For deploying Linux in the cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be certified and supported in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Novell is collaborating with IBM to deliver SUSE Linux Enterprise 11-based virtual instances of IBM DB2*, Informix* Dynamic Server, WebSphere* sMash, IBM Lotus* Web Content Management and IBM WebSphere* Portal instances for cloud environments. Currently, customers deploying Linux desktops have been able to obtain SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop preloaded from leading hardware vendors, including Dell and HP. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, Novell will continue to bring desktop Linux ubiquity to the market across a variety of devices, including desktops, notebooks, netbooks, nettops and thin clients. Many customers are removing complexity from their application deployment and management processes with virtual appliances – integrated images with a complete preconfigured suite including application, middleware and operating system. To continue to lead in this rapidly growing market, Novell is delivering SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS (Just enough Operating System) and a suite of tools that enables ISVs to assemble a virtual appliance with just the pieces of SUSE Linux Enterprise necessary to support their specific application. Uniquely, appliances that pass Novell's supportability algorithm will receive technical support for their custom JeOS configuration of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. More details on this program and the appliance construction toolkit will be released later this year. Interoperability: Leverage existing IT investments With SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell continues to provide the most interoperable Linux solutions that leverage customers' existing IT investments. Thanks to its ground-breaking, five-year partnership with Microsoft, Novell has engineered SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 to work seamlessly with Microsoft Windows* in the areas of cross-platform virtualization, systems management, identity/directory federation, document compatibility, MoonlightTM (Microsoft Silverlight on Linux) and desktop accessibility for the disabled. In addition to new support for Silverlight, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 features the ability to play Windows multimedia file formats and the latest version of OpenOffice.org Novell Edition that supports a range of Microsoft Office file formats. SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension is a new product that provides the first commercial support for the open source Mono project's application platform, enabling enterprises to seamlessly run .NET applications on Linux without having to recompile. SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension allows organizations to consolidate their .NET applications onto Linux, dramatically saving costs. Novell is also offering the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension for customers performing mainframe-based workload consolidation. This allows them to run .NET-based applications on IBM System z, the first time this has been offered by any Linux vendor. Mission-Critical Computing: Designed to support your most important business needs SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 enables customers to confidently migrate workloads from UNIX to Linux in order to build a low-cost, resilient infrastructure. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension delivers an innovative, integrated suite of open source clustering technologies that help customers reduce unplanned downtime while providing an affordable alternative to expensive proprietary offerings. A new support infrastructure provides enhanced problem resolution to assist customers in resolving inquiries quickly and accurately. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 now supports swap over the NFS (Network File System) protocol to leverage remote storage for local server needs and avoid costly application downtime. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 provides the fastest package update stack of any enterprise Linux distribution, with new technologies to automate and accelerate installing, removing, upgrading and configuring software packages. Delivering the new Xen 3.3 hypervisor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 continues to set the standard for open source virtualization, with greater scalability, performance and security, enhanced power management and improved graphical capabilities. Later this year, Novell plans to release the next version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, which will leverage the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 code base to reduce latency and increase predictability and reliability of time-sensitive, mission-critical applications. “Office Depot chose to standardize on SUSE Linux Enterprise in an effort to reduce the complexity of our systems and control costs, while maintaining superior performance for our global systems,” said Tim Toews, senior vice president and chief information officer of Office Depot. “As we have moved more applications and volume to commodity platforms, SUSE Linux Enterprise has been able to scale to support our business needs.” Availability SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension and Novell ZENworks Linux Management 7.3 are available now. SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS will be available in April and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension will be available in the second quarter of this year. Later in 2009, Novell plans to release updates to SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension and SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client. For more information, visit www.novell.com/SUSE11presskit. Global Data Center Evolution Tour Beginning today, Novell is featuring SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 in major cities around the world as part of its data center evolution tour. The first events will be in Boston and Irvine, Calif., and will also showcase solutions from PlateSpin® Workload Management and Novell Business Service Management. For more information and to register for the tour, visit www.novell.com/events/tours/datacenter. Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire About Novell Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com. ### Novell, Mono, PlateSpin, SUSE and ZENworks are registered trademarks and Moonlight is a trademark of Novell Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 1IDC White Paper sponsored by Novell, Linux Adoption in a Global Recession, Doc # 217280, March 2009 This document is not to be construed as a promise by any participating company to develop, deliver, or market a product. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. Novell, Inc. makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this document, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The development, release, and timing of features or functionality described for Novell products remains at the sole discretion of Novell. Further, Novell, Inc. reserves the right to revise this document and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. Adobe Introduces Director 11.5/India PRwire/ – At the Game Developer Conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a new version of Adobe® Director® software offering game developers, multimedia authors, and e-learning professionals a host of new features for creating immersive gaming and multimedia applications. With support for a new audio engine, high-definition (HD) video and advanced 3-D features, Adobe Director 11.5 provides a rich and flexible platform to create applications for both online and desktop worlds. The new features in Director 11.5 include a new audio engine that allows developers to deliver 5.1 channel surround sound and create audio effects using real-time mixing capabilities. With support for the H.264 format and RTMP-based streaming, users are able to deliver HD video content. Developers can also create and import 3-D assets through Google SketchUp and SketchUp 3-D Importer. In addition, advanced physics capabilities based on the NVIDIA® PhysX™ engine help users create games and simulations that model real-world gravity and other life-like effects. “Director 11.5 is a significant milestone in our mission to deliver an advanced set of audio and video features for game developers and multimedia application authors,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice president, Print and Publishing at Adobe. “With the brand new audio engine in Director 11.5 along with high quality video, developers can now create 3-D online gaming experiences that are simply unparalleled in this space.” “Adobe Director is a powerful platform for creating compelling and exciting 3-D Shockwave games, which play a significant role in establishing our leadership position in the rapidly growing 3-D online casual gaming space,” said Rob Small, CEO of Miniclip, the largest online games Web site and largest distributor of the Adobe Shockwave plug-in. “With all our 3-D games being developed with Adobe Director, the new version enables us to deliver the kind of rich gaming experience that online gamers worldwide are demanding today.” In addition to the new features, Director 11.5 also supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and continues to support both JavaScript and Lingo — the native scripting language of Director — while providing additional functionality through enhanced scripting performance, an easy-to-use user interface, and a wide variety of third-party add-ons that create an extensible multimedia authoring environment. Pricing and Availability Adobe Director 11.5 is expected to be available by the end of March 2009 and is priced at US$999 for the full product and US$299 for an upgrade from the prior versions of Director. Educators can purchase Director 11.5 for US$299. The product runs on multiple operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista® and Mac OS X version 10.5 on Intel®-based Macintosh systems. The Adobe® Shockwave® player runs on all of those systems as well as Mac OS X 10.4 on PowerPC®-based Macintosh systems. For more information please visit www.adobe.com/products/director. Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire About Adobe Systems Incorporated Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com. ### © 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Director, Flash and Adobe Shockwave are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple, Inc. registered in the United States and other countries. Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines in the United States, other countries, or both. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows Vista are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. PhysX is a trademark or a registered trademark of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. AribaWeb – Web FrameworkAribaWeb is the Open Source component-based web application development framework for creating rich, AJAX-enabled applications with the absolute minimum of code (and no hand-coded Javascript). AribaWeb enables the creation of rich, highly interactive business applications with far less coding effort than alternative web application development frameworks. Among the key attributes that set AribaWeb apart from the [...] CactusCactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag Libs, Filters, …). The intent of Cactus is to lower the cost of writing tests for server-side code. It uses JUnit and extends it. Cactus implements an in-container strategy, meaning that tests are executed inside the container. The Cactus Ecosystem [...] JMockit Testing ToolkitJMockit allows you to use mock-objects to mock the behaviour of static or final code which can’t be done with traditional mock frameworks such as JMock and EasyMock. 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