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News'/><category term='Google Apps'/><category term='joomla tips'/><category term='Wordpress Developer'/><title type='text'>Software Outsourcing India| PHP .Net Web Design Development Seo News, Article</title><subtitle type='html'>Software Outsourcing India Offers News, Articles, Information, Tips and ricks about PHP Programming, .Net Development, Search Engine News, Web Design Solutions and Open Source Solutions for Joomla, Drupal, Magento and Wordpress by Hire Dedicated Programmers / Developers.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' 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Source Customization &amp; Custom PHP Web Development</title><content type='html'>PHP is one of the fastest growing web scripting languages on the &lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; today, and for good reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PHP (which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor) was designed explicitly for the web. Designed in 1994 to enable the creation of dynamic web pages quickly and easily, PHP has exploded in growth and has been adopted by major vendors such as Linux that have included the language with their web servers. PHP is mostly used in conjunction with MySQL Database for web development services like &lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static; background-color: transparent;"&gt;Open &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static; background-color: transparent;"&gt;Source&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Ecommerce Websites, Open Source CMS based Websites, &amp;amp; Custom PHP based web applications. This works on Linux Apace MySQL PHP (LAMP) Environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PHP Web development is becoming increasingly popular in web development industry mostly because of the fact it is open source. In easy words what Open source Means is you can install a popular ecommerce solution or cms solution and customize it as per your requirements and you have your website up and running in matter of a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;t Profit By Outsourcing We do Open Source Customization for Popular &lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204) ! important; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; position: static;"&gt;ecommerce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; engines (like oscommerce Customization, zen cart Customization, x cart Customization, CS cart Customization, virtuemart customization, and magento customization), CMS engines (Mambo Customization, Joomla Customization, Drupal Customization, typo3 Customization, phpnuke Customization and expression engine customization). Apart from this we also do Custom PHP Web Development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Profit By Outsourcing, we provide 2 Options:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• You can hire there Own team of Dedicated PHP Programmer(s) from Profit By Outsourcing, who will work dedicatedly and exclusively on your Projects for 176hrs/mo and will provide a daily work status reports at close of play.&lt;br /&gt;• You can also work with Profit By Outsourcing on a project basis, where we agree on a total project cost for your php web development requirements before project commencement, the cost is calculated on basis of project specifications provided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source : http://www.pr-inside.com/hire-php-developer-for-open-source-r1270520.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-2546913231321280326?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/2546913231321280326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=2546913231321280326' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2546913231321280326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2546913231321280326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/hire-php-developer-for-open-source.html' title='Hire PHP developer for Open Source Customization &amp; Custom PHP Web Development'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8080891401103655192</id><published>2009-05-20T18:11:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-20T18:13:01.975+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><title type='text'>Microsoft preps for open-source cloud apps PHP gets Azure tinge</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt; &lt;p&gt;Microsoft has unveiled a toolkit for PHP developers building open-source applications that help fluff its planned Azure cloud.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;PHPAzure is a software development kit (SDK) for programming to both Windows Azure and the underlying SQL-like Windows Azure Storage service's blobs, tables, and queues. PHPAzure is an open-source project developed with RealDolmen and hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div id="article-mpu-container"&gt; &lt;div style="width: auto; height: auto;" class="ad-now" id="ad-mpu1-spot"&gt; &lt;div id="ad-mpu1"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;RegAd('mpu1', 'reg.software.4159/developer', 'pos=top;sz=336x280', VCs);&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/reg.software.4159/developer;tile=2;dcove=d;cta=0;ctb=0;ctc=redesign;sc=1;cid=;test=;pid=90504;pf=0;kw=microsoft;kw=amazon;kw=php;kw=cloud;cp=0;vc=soft.developer;pos=top;sz=336x280;ord=795050848?"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;!-- Template Id = 1 Template Name = Banner Creative (Flash) --&gt; &lt;!-- Copyright 2002 DoubleClick Inc., All rights reserved. --&gt;&lt;script src="http://m1.emea.2mdn.net/879366/flashwrite_1_2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="FLASH_AD" width="336" height="280"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://m1.emea.2mdn.net/1324958/300x250_Nehalem_OLSem.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad.uk.doubleclick.net%2Fclick%253Bh%3Dv8%2F3833%2F3%2F0%2F%252a%2Fr%253B213932629%253B0-0%253B6%253B27381302%253B4252-336%2F280%253B31064090%2F31081966%2F1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A%2F%2Fad.uk.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213894192%3B35033619%3Bi%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fapac%2Fbusiness%2Fxeon%2Fseminar.htm"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="never"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://m1.emea.2mdn.net/1324958/300x250_Nehalem_OLSem.swf?clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad.uk.doubleclick.net%2Fclick%253Bh%3Dv8%2F3833%2F3%2F0%2F%252a%2Fr%253B213932629%253B0-0%253B6%253B27381302%253B4252-336%2F280%253B31064090%2F31081966%2F1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A%2F%2Fad.uk.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213894192%3B35033619%3Bi%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.intel.com%2Fapac%2Fbusiness%2Fxeon%2Fseminar.htm" quality="high" wmode="opaque" swliveconnect="TRUE" bgcolor="#" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" width="336" height="280"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;a target="_top" href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v8/3833/3/0/%2a/r%3B213932629%3B0-0%3B6%3B27381302%3B4252-336/280%3B31064090/31081966/1%3B%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttp://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/clk;213894192;35033619;i?http://www.intel.com/apac/business/xeon/seminar.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://m1.emea.2mdn.net/2244266/336x280.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;noscript&gt; &lt;a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.software.4159/developer;tile=2;pos=top;dcove=d;sz=336x280;ord=JiDDPdRk6jcAACQztlwAAAAf?" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.software.4159/developer;tile=2;pos=top;dcove=d;sz=336x280;ord=JiDDPdRk6jcAACQztlwAAAAf?" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/noscript&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The PHPAzure community technology preview (CTP) was unveiled by Microsoft India and is due for completion on August 21. Azure is itself currently in CTP and has been promised for delivery by the end of this year.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;PHP is one of the web's most popular programming languages, running more than 20 million sites. It's also used in conjunction with Apache, Linux, and MySQL - a web server, operating system, and database combo that Microsoft is in competition with.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Microsoft's recognized the importance of winning over PHP developers and has worked with Zend Technologies to fine-tune PHP to Windows until now. The risk was developers would otherwise build their PHP applications on Windows and deploy on Linux instead.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;With PHP being a default web-programming environment, Microsoft has accepted it must embrace the language as a way to populate Azure with applications, moving it from a standing stop.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;PHPAzure sounds like a framework for PHP programmers to build to Azure and its underlying storage system rather than a new language from Microsoft. Features include PHP classes for Windows Azure blobs, tables, and queues, for HTTP transport, AuthN/AuthZ, REST, and error management, and there is manageability, instrumentation, and logging support. You can read more on the architecture here.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bootnote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sybase has announced plans for its server products to work in Amazon's cloud. The company said it'll make Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), developer guides, and developer software for its software freely available for development and testing. Sybase is also working with Amazon to devise "flexible utility computing models" of its software to enable pay-per-use billing on the Amazon cloud.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once a database contender to Oracle, Sybase today has a diverse set of products covering mobile and business intelligence. But the announcement will likely only apply to its database and data integration and replication products. It will expand the number of database options available on Amazon and keep Sybase in the game - though it's coming a little late. Amazon's EC2 currently offers IBM's DB2 and Informix, Oracle 11g, Microsoft's SQL Server Standard Edition 2005, and MySQL Enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sybase also said it's working with Symantec and its Veritas Storage Foundation to optimize its Virtualized Resource Management framework from the company's ASE Cluster Edition for use in cloud-based storage. ®&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8080891401103655192?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8080891401103655192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8080891401103655192' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8080891401103655192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8080891401103655192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/microsoft-preps-for-open-source-cloud.html' title='Microsoft preps for open-source cloud apps PHP gets Azure tinge'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7652237939604562014</id><published>2009-05-20T17:39:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-20T17:49:14.294+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Computer'/><title type='text'>Desktop computers dragging down Canada's PC market</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;MONTREAL — The Canadian market for personal computers isn't expected to reboot to positive growth until 2010 because consumers and businesses are delaying purchases and waiting for new technologies, says IDC Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Desktop computers dragged down the market in the first quarter and the volume of netbooks - small mobile computers that allow users to surf the Internet and check email - has levelled off, IDC said Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"This year, the bottom has completely fallen out of desktops," said Tim Brunt, IDC's senior analyst in personal computing and technology. "The market is demanding mobility."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall desktop PC market declined by 27 per cent from last year, but on average a desktop PC now sells for more than $200 more than a portable personal computer, IDC said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks continued to garner a larger share of the overall market for portable PCs due to their lower price, but unit shipments were down by five per cent from the fourth quarter, Brunt said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks, also called mini notebooks, usually cost between $200 and $500, but can be found at even lower prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"They're really taking a price leadership role," he said, adding that laptops also have compete with the price of netbooks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Mini notebooks came along at an opportunistic time - a down economy and a low price point," Brunt said from Toronto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall PC market took a step decline in the quarter with unit volumes down 14 per cent over the same period last year to reach about 1.3 million desktops, laptops and netbooks shipped in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most popular PC brands in Canada in first quarter were HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo and Apple, Brunt said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Canada didn't fare well globally in the quarter, Brunt said. In the United States, PC shipments were down just 3.4 per cent in the quarter with 14.9 million units shipped, he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"While the overall PC market continues to retreat, and the remainder of 2009 does not look optimistic, there is light at the end of the tunnel in 2010, where there are several factors that will drive the industry back to positive growth."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brunt said consumers and businesses are waiting for faster chip sets in PCs, Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, and different form factors. He added that small businesses will be looking to take advantage of the federal government's stimulus package before the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Analyst Duncan Stewart said consumers used to have to pay more for a mobile computer, such as a laptop, than for a desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"In the early stages of a technology, people pay a premium for smallness and portability but then as you figure all of that out, you realized that you don't need that much power for a little, portable device," said Stewart, director of research, technology, media and telecom at Deloitte Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But he said desktop prices will "hang in there" because people will buy them to do more things with them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite a decline sales volumes in the first quarter, netbooks still have appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dell announced on Tuesday the launch of the Latitude 2100, a netbook specifically designed for students from kindergarten to Grade 12.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks will also be a source of revenue for wireless carriers with Verizon and AT&amp;amp;T in the United States offering them with multi-year contracts and some rebates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source : http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jD5RoOT25Tl0H5sktWHmXVA7T6Hg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7652237939604562014?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7652237939604562014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7652237939604562014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7652237939604562014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7652237939604562014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/desktop-computers-dragging-down-canadas_20.html' title='Desktop computers dragging down Canada&apos;s PC market'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8834219555804518408</id><published>2009-05-20T17:39:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-20T17:41:00.113+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Computer'/><title type='text'>Desktop computers dragging down Canada's PC market</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;MONTREAL — The Canadian market for personal computers isn't expected to reboot to positive growth until 2010 because consumers and businesses are delaying purchases and waiting for new technologies, says IDC Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Desktop computers dragged down the market in the first quarter and the volume of netbooks - small mobile computers that allow users to surf the Internet and check email - has levelled off, IDC said Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"This year, the bottom has completely fallen out of desktops," said Tim Brunt, IDC's senior analyst in personal computing and technology. "The market is demanding mobility."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall desktop PC market declined by 27 per cent from last year, but on average a desktop PC now sells for more than $200 more than a portable personal computer, IDC said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks continued to garner a larger share of the overall market for portable PCs due to their lower price, but unit shipments were down by five per cent from the fourth quarter, Brunt said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks, also called mini notebooks, usually cost between $200 and $500, but can be found at even lower prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"They're really taking a price leadership role," he said, adding that laptops also have compete with the price of netbooks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"Mini notebooks came along at an opportunistic time - a down economy and a low price point," Brunt said from Toronto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall PC market took a step decline in the quarter with unit volumes down 14 per cent over the same period last year to reach about 1.3 million desktops, laptops and netbooks shipped in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most popular PC brands in Canada in first quarter were HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo and Apple, Brunt said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Canada didn't fare well globally in the quarter, Brunt said. In the United States, PC shipments were down just 3.4 per cent in the quarter with 14.9 million units shipped, he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"While the overall PC market continues to retreat, and the remainder of 2009 does not look optimistic, there is light at the end of the tunnel in 2010, where there are several factors that will drive the industry back to positive growth."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brunt said consumers and businesses are waiting for faster chip sets in PCs, Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, and different form factors. He added that small businesses will be looking to take advantage of the federal government's stimulus package before the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Analyst Duncan Stewart said consumers used to have to pay more for a mobile computer, such as a laptop, than for a desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"In the early stages of a technology, people pay a premium for smallness and portability but then as you figure all of that out, you realized that you don't need that much power for a little, portable device," said Stewart, director of research, technology, media and telecom at Deloitte Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But he said desktop prices will "hang in there" because people will buy them to do more things with them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite a decline sales volumes in the first quarter, netbooks still have appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dell announced on Tuesday the launch of the Latitude 2100, a netbook specifically designed for students from kindergarten to Grade 12.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Netbooks will also be a source of revenue for wireless carriers with Verizon and AT&amp;amp;T in the United States offering them with multi-year contracts and some rebates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source : http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jD5RoOT25Tl0H5sktWHmXVA7T6Hg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8834219555804518408?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8834219555804518408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8834219555804518408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8834219555804518408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8834219555804518408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/desktop-computers-dragging-down-canadas.html' title='Desktop computers dragging down Canada&apos;s PC market'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7549130396479869001</id><published>2009-05-15T17:27:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-15T17:28:54.446+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-Commerce Software'/><title type='text'>Software switch advised for e-commerce success</title><content type='html'>A new report from Gartner has advised online retailers to make greater use of open source, commercial or off-the-shelf software to focus their budgets on the areas that matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research company claims that too much money is spent on custom web development for functions that could be easily addressed by standard software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It states that large e-commerce retailers could save up to 35 per cent of their ongoing maintenance and license costs by using software instead of custom development for functions such as shopping cart management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For small retailers, this figure could be anything up to 25 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gene Alvarez, research vice-president at Gartner, said web retailers should ask web specialists to concentrate on "developing rich internet shopping capabilities or [improving] site design for search engine optimisation so that the site can rank higher in a Google-based search".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-commerce retailers could also save money by using Magento hosting for their websites. The software is open source, which means that it is free to use, although Magento has also recently announced the launch of a paid-for enterprise edition of its solution for those requiring more features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source : http://www.globalgold.co.uk/web-hosting-news/custom-web-hosting/software-switch-advised-for-ecommerce-success-19165017.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7549130396479869001?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7549130396479869001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7549130396479869001' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7549130396479869001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7549130396479869001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/software-switch-advised-for-e-commerce.html' title='Software switch advised for e-commerce success'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8878982026484534527</id><published>2009-05-15T17:07:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-15T17:09:35.485+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Computer'/><title type='text'>NASA astronauts install new computer on Hubble telescope</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="bodyText"&gt;   &lt;div id="artBody"&gt;                 &lt;p&gt;During a 7-hour-and-20-minute spacewalk today, NASA astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a new backup computer to replace the onboard system that had to be put into use after a technical failure last fall.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The computer, called the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit, is designed to send commands to Hubble's science instruments and also format science data so it can be transmitted to the ground.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Hubble telescope's main unit failed late last September, leaving the orbiter unable to send data to Earth. Michael Moore, a program executive for the Hubble Space Telescope, has said that the computer problem was the worst the Hubble has suffered since it went into orbit 19 years ago. NASA engineers remotely switched the telescope over to the backup system, and today's spacewalk added another system, which will now serve as Hubble's backup unit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The space shuttle Atlantis' 11-day mission is focused on repairing and upgrading the telescope, which has not been serviced since 2002. The repairs and additions should make Hubble far more powerful than it's ever been. And that will put Hubble in the position to make more, and more important, discoveries in the next five years than it has in the past two decades, said Ed Ruitberg, deputy program manager for the Hubble Space Telescope.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Today, NASA Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel performed the long, grueling spacewalk, which included removing the telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and replacing it with a new wide-field camera, which should enable Hubble to take large-scale, detailed photos.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The astronauts, who were aided by astronaut Megan McArthur operating the shuttle's robotic arm, also installed a soft capture mechanism, which will allow future vehicles to attach to the telescope. This is the last space shuttle mission to Hubble, but other space vehicles could someday make another maintenance trip or even go up to retrieve parts of it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Friday's spacewalk is set up to install six new gyroscopes and three of the six new batteries that will go into the telescope during this mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source :  http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=43C02D11-1A64-6A71-CEC3E03F87EB7060&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8878982026484534527?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8878982026484534527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8878982026484534527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8878982026484534527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8878982026484534527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/nasa-astronauts-install-new-computer-on.html' title='NASA astronauts install new computer on Hubble telescope'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8028021553914013090</id><published>2009-05-14T17:26:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-14T17:30:58.343+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><title type='text'>Oracle Originally Only Wanted Sun’s Software Assets (Update2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;     May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp., which agreed to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion last month, made its offer only after failing to acquire the company’s software assets in March.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Oracle, the world’s second-largest software maker, proposed buying the assets on March 12, when Sun was in exclusive talks for a takeover by a rival, according to a filing today from Sun. Oracle’s offer wasn’t attractive enough to make Sun end its talks with the other suitor.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Oracle made its winning bid of $9.50 a share for the full business on April 18, also gaining Sun’s computer assets and pitting Oracle against International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. in the shrinking server market. The company may eventually seek to sell parts of the hardware unit, said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities Inc.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;“That’s much less attractive than the core software business,” said Barnicle, who rates Oracle’s shares “outperform” and doesn’t own any. “It’s a much lower-margin business.”     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said this month he plans to keep the computer business and boost its profit by making hardware and applications work better together. In a filing, he cited Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. as companies with lucrative hardware products.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Sun’s server sales, which make up more than half of revenue, fell 26 percent last quarter as customers pared equipment spending in the recession. Servers run corporate networks and Web sites.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Other Bidders     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;IBM also bid for Sun, and Hewlett-Packard held talks about a combination with the company, people familiar with the matter have said. According to today’s filing, Sun permitted two other companies besides Oracle to conduct due diligence reviews, without naming them.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;One of the other bidders, “Party A,” was prepared to pay $9.10 a share as late as April 19, while the other, “Party B,” said on April 17 it wouldn’t submit an offer, Sun said.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;“Party B” was Hewlett-Packard, said a person aware of the discussions who asked not to be named because the talks were confidential. While Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Hewlett- Packard CEO Mark Hurd met to discuss a deal, Hewlett-Packard never made an official offer, the person said.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Talks Last Year     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;“Party B” had indicated interest in a deal late last year, though it had said that a transaction wouldn’t be optimal in the near term, Sun said. “Party B” restarted a due diligence review of Sun on April 9, only nine days before Oracle made its winning bid, Sun said.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Hewlett-Packard bought Electronic Data Systems Corp. last year for $13.2 billion and the company has said it is continuing to digest that takeover, Hurd’s largest transaction. Christina Schneider, a spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard, declined to comment today.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;IBM, the world’s largest computer-services provider, was in talks with Sun prior to the announcement of the Oracle acquisition and was intending to pay between $9 and $10 a share, according to people familiar with the matter. Ian Colley, an IBM spokesman, declined to comment today.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;Oracle, based in Redwood City, California, fell 18 cents to $18.38 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading at 4 p.m. New York time. Sun, based in Santa Clara, California, rose 9 cents to $9.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;source:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;amp;sid=aq_XvujIIrl8&amp;amp;refer=news&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8028021553914013090?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8028021553914013090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8028021553914013090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8028021553914013090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8028021553914013090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/oracle-originally-only-wanted-suns.html' title='Oracle Originally Only Wanted Sun’s Software Assets (Update2)'/><author><name>Pratik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14573864851565598907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-891917469448187044</id><published>2009-05-14T10:50:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-14T10:54:27.914+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Released'/><title type='text'>Magento 1.1.6 Released</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;As each ecommerce application Magento benefits from different updates. So a recent release of Magento 1.1.6 has been warmly accepted by Magento community. No doubt all bugs noticed since the last Magento release have been taken into consideration and fixed. Having explored Magento 1.1.6 you’ll find out the next improvements:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Checkout table rates work perfectly;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;While upgrading existing databases you won’t experience SQL error any more;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Refreshing products count in categories management page won’t make you any troubles;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;From now on order status after creating an invoice will be shown in a right way;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Translations and locale settings used in PDF print-outs have been fixed as well;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managing product categories has been also made more effective.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Note we’ve listed just several improvements which have been made. Of course there aren’t perfect things but there are great things and Magento belongs to the last ones. In fact Magento has launched a blank theme for building online shops. This theme has a very simple design but it can be useful for those who can’t afford custom made design or purchasing professionally designed Magento themes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source:http://www.design4magento.com/category/magento-news/page/3/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-891917469448187044?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/891917469448187044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=891917469448187044' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/891917469448187044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/891917469448187044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/magento-116-released.html' title='Magento 1.1.6 Released'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7484054190454462117</id><published>2009-05-14T09:49:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-14T09:53:38.843+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Introducting Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><title type='text'>Why Magento?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;          Open Source.&lt;/strong&gt; Open Source means your store and the platform its built on are fully &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt;. You have the freedom to customize Magento, tailor it to your business model and expand on it for years to come. No strings attached.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        Integration Friendly.&lt;/strong&gt; Your eCommerce platform should not dictate what third-party solution you use. Magento gives you the freedom to work with the third-party solutions you want.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       Feature-Rich.&lt;/strong&gt; Magento comes out-of-the-box with features like one-page checkout, product comparisons, multi-address Shipping and many more features that will set your store apart.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     Support Network. &lt;/strong&gt; Magento is fully supported by Varien and the &lt;em&gt;international&lt;/em&gt; Magento community ensuring that where ever you are, you’re never on your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:http://www.varien.com/products/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7484054190454462117?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7484054190454462117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7484054190454462117' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7484054190454462117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7484054190454462117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-magento.html' title='Why Magento?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1068323261857173516</id><published>2009-05-13T10:09:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-13T10:10:34.676+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magento Enterprise Edition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magento demo'/><title type='text'>Magento launches Enterprise Edition demos</title><content type='html'>Open source e-commerce platform Magento has released demonstrations of some of the capabilities of its new Enterprise Edition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento hosting users can now access a demonstration Storefront and a demonstration Administrator Panel for the product on the company's demo site, which requires log-in details provided by Magento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writing on the Magento blog, designer Minu Oh said that the demonstrations display how the Enterprise Edition "provides increased return on investment for Magento installations and allows retailers and manufacturers on Magento to create multi-faceted, strategic marketing efforts and target them to different audience types".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento first unveiled the Enterprise Edition version of its platform in mid-April. The premium product is aimed at larger organisations requiring greater functionality than that provided by the free Magento solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The free product has been downloaded more than 750,000 times to date and boasts more than 85,000 community members, according to the most recent figures from Magento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:http://www.globalgold.co.uk/web-hosting-news/custom-web-hosting/magento-launches-enterprise-edition-demos-19150303.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1068323261857173516?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1068323261857173516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1068323261857173516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1068323261857173516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1068323261857173516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/magento-launches-enterprise-edition.html' title='Magento launches Enterprise Edition demos'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-679842848420185962</id><published>2009-05-13T09:40:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-05-13T09:43:02.335+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><title type='text'>New update for Magento</title><content type='html'>E-commerce platform Magento has been updated with several new fixes and integration with Amazon payment systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento hosting users who download version 1.3.1 of the software can now benefit from integration and support for Amazon Flexible Payment and Checkout by Amazon payment options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further information about these services will be provided over the next few days, said Yoav Kutner of Magento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The newest release also includes an improved flat catalogue module for better performance and fixes for a number of bugs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Kutner said that as Magento 1.3.1 includes an update to the Magento Connect Manager, those using the Magento Connect Manager should back up their index.php and .htaccess files under their Magento root folder before upgrading and restore them after the process is complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Enterprise Edition of the platform was launched last week. The new product is aimed at large companies looking for more advanced features than those offered by the free open source version of the software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:http://www.globalgold.co.uk/web-hosting-news/custom-web-hosting/new-update-for-magento-19128187.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-679842848420185962?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/679842848420185962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=679842848420185962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/679842848420185962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/679842848420185962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-update-for-magento.html' title='New update for Magento'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-6563058939565418762</id><published>2009-04-24T09:58:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-24T11:18:33.029+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><title type='text'>Magento - The radical Ecommerce open source</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Magento is the new improved e-commerce platform that gives a superior force to web traders to get rid of obstacles in the way of business process implementations. With downloads surpassing the magical figure of 600,000, Magento is easily the fastest growing commercially available tool for online business solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Don’t be misled by the free and open source background of Magento—it excels the best commercial tools with its theme based structure and support for a panoply of digital products.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;We at Maven Infosoft have solid expertise in working with all leading e-commerce and portal-building platforms and have managed and implemented heavy-duty enterprise-level content management systems. We can safely assert that Magento has outshone all of them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There remain a few uncertainties, as with any growing and emergent platform, in the design and development capabilities that Magento has to offer. The high competence level required means that it is not for all and sundry. Having said that, Magento is by far the most adaptable and compliant e-commerce program to hit the online trading market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In many ways, Magento is not a typical open source solution. It is free to download and use. It does give you the ability to create customize themes and module extensions. It has all the potential for swell in usage and gain in popularity. However, it has a dedicated company supporting its growth. Magento is the product of Varien, an e-commerce design house that seems to benefit from Magento by offering traditional web agency services.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Magento is based on a theme based framework with individual layouts, templates and skins, which in turn has greater look and feel customize capability. Once you get the hang of it, creating stores in Magento turns into a piece of cake. Unlike shopping carts and content management systems devoid of themes, this framework elevates Magento to a different level&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The comprehensive features available reflect long years of e-commerce experience. Features such as advanced pricing rules, product image zoom, side-by-side comparison and inventory management indicate the strong relevance to marketing functions and requirements. Other features that we approve of are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ready to go iPhone theme&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Single page checkout&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Availability of real time rates from UPS, FedEx and the US Postal Service&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Great analytics and reporting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;One administration panel and product catalog to manage  multiple websites/stores&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Customer reviews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Flexible coupon rules for flexibility of campaigns&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Layered and faceted navigation for filtering&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Google Website Optimizer integration&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;URL rewrites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Newsletter management&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Easy integration of third party tools using Web API&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Choice of more than 50 payment gateways&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Option to up sell during checkout&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Self-generating site maps&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Full support for digital and downloadable products&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;RSS feeds for customers and administrators alike&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though Magento does have simple usage rules including easy handling of the administration interface, it does require developers to have fundamental skills in PHP, MySQL, SOAP, XML, XHTML, Apache and CSS. This is indeed the case for most shopping carts or platforms, but Magento is much more application oriented. Even a standard implementation will have you accessing files and programming code that other simpler platforms do not ask for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;All said and done, Magento is an outstanding tool for online commerce and web marketing. It is no less than a boon for leading Internet retailers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;If you are looking to design and develop Magento ecommerce store for your business, Maven Infosoft is a one stop helping point for all your requirements. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Maven Infosoft is one of the initial starters who work on Magento since its first version. The expertise of Magento developers at Maven Infosoft, serves Magento customers to meet their Enterprise requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Maven Infosoft provides services for enterprise Magento theme development, enterprise Magento template design, Magento extensions like Vendor module, Purchase module, accounting module and Magento payment extensions like iVeri, Paymentec, Safepay, Secpay, Secpay 3D secure, DIBS DirectPay, Cardinal Direct, Cardinal 3D secure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As Magento is free open source application, Maven Infosoft also provides free Magento theme, free Magento templates, and free Magento extensions to help Magento grow in terms of ecommerce application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Like Magento, Maven Infosoft is helping internet business to grow further to reach new heights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;For more information please refer &lt;a href="http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/php-mysql-pgsql-programming/magento-customization-solutions.html"&gt;http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/php-mysql-pgsql-programming/magento-customization-solutions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Or drop us an email at info@offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Author Name: - Anand Pandya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Resource: - &lt;a href="http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/blog/"&gt;http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-6563058939565418762?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/6563058939565418762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=6563058939565418762' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6563058939565418762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6563058939565418762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/04/magento-radical-ecommerce-open-source.html' title='Magento - The radical Ecommerce open source'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1387913929050272728</id><published>2009-04-21T19:57:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-21T20:02:02.165+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='.net development india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='.net developer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='.net development'/><title type='text'>Zend Framework new preview release 1.8</title><content type='html'>The all new Zend Framework preview release 1.8 is here! It brings us&lt;br /&gt;* Tools for dependable bootstrapping&lt;br /&gt;* A command line client for creating and maintaining projects&lt;br /&gt;* Devices for menus, sitemaps, breadcrumbs, and whatnot&lt;br /&gt;* Full support for Amazon EC2 and S3&lt;br /&gt;* A simple and reliable framework&lt;br /&gt;* New additions and bug fixes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/214-Zend-Framework-1.8-PREVIEW-Release.html"&gt;Mathew’s blog&lt;/a&gt; for more detailed description.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1387913929050272728?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1387913929050272728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1387913929050272728' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1387913929050272728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1387913929050272728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2009/04/zend-framework-new-preview-release-18.html' title='Zend Framework new preview release 1.8'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3408745983252967183</id><published>2008-12-11T13:32:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-11T13:33:15.470+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Coding Standard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend smarty'/><title type='text'>Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Zend Framework released with many new components and features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available from the Zend Framework download site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://framework.zend.com/download/latest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;This release introduces many new components and features, including:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols&lt;br /&gt;•   Dojo Toolkit 1.2.1&lt;br /&gt;•   Support for dijit editor available in the Dojo Toolkit&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Service_&lt;wbr&gt;Twitter&lt;br /&gt;•   ZendX_&lt;wbr&gt;JQuery in extras library&lt;br /&gt;•   Metadata API in Zend_Cache&lt;br /&gt;•   Google book search API in Zend_Gdata&lt;br /&gt;•   Preliminary support for GData Protocol v2 in Zend_Gdata&lt;br /&gt;•   Support for skip data processing in Zend_Search_&lt;wbr&gt;Lucene&lt;br /&gt;•   Support for Open Office XML documents in Zend_Search_&lt;wbr&gt;Lucene indexer&lt;br /&gt;•   Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Mail_&lt;wbr&gt;Storage_Writable_&lt;wbr&gt;Maildir enhancements for mail delivery&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Tool in incubator&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Text_&lt;wbr&gt;Table for formatting table using characters&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_ProgressBar&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Config_&lt;wbr&gt;Writer&lt;br /&gt;•   ZendX_&lt;wbr&gt;Console_Unix_&lt;wbr&gt;Process in the extras library&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Db_&lt;wbr&gt;Table_Select support for Zend_Paginator&lt;br /&gt;•   Global parameters for routes&lt;br /&gt;•   Using Chain-Routes for Hostname-Routes via Zend_Config&lt;br /&gt;•   I18N improvements&lt;br /&gt;o   Application wide locale for all classes&lt;br /&gt;o   Data retrieving methods are now static&lt;br /&gt;o   Additional cache handling methods in all I18N classes&lt;br /&gt;o   Zend_Translate API simplified&lt;br /&gt;•   File transfer enhancements&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for file elements in subforms&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for multifile elements&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for MAX_FILES_SIZE in form&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for breaking validation chain&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for translation of failure ,messages&lt;br /&gt;o   New IsCompressed, IsImage, ExcludeMimeType, ExcludeExtension validators&lt;br /&gt;o   Support for FileInfo extension in MimeType validator&lt;br /&gt;•   Zend_Db_&lt;wbr&gt;Table_Select adapater for Zend_Paginator&lt;br /&gt;•   Support for custom adapters in Zend_Paginator&lt;br /&gt;•   More flexible handling of complex types in Zend_Soap&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Zend Framework team would like to thank everyone who made this release possible. As always, our generous ZF community has provided countless new features, bug fixes, documentation translations, etc. We'd also like to thank Adobe Systems and Wade Arnold for contributing the new Zend_Amf component. A big thanks to PHP Belgium and everyone who participated in bug hunt day and/or the Zend Framework bug hunt week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- prlog.org/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3408745983252967183?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3408745983252967183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3408745983252967183' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3408745983252967183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3408745983252967183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/zend-framework-170-is-now-available.html' title='Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5007380550737150225</id><published>2008-12-11T13:12:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-11T13:19:13.691+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend smarty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend encoder'/><title type='text'>Zend Framework 1.7 Includes DB2/400 Adapter</title><content type='html'>Zend Technologies, the commercial entity behind the open source PHP programming language and its related development tools, has delivered a new release of its suite of PHP tools. Zend Framework 1.7 includes a general release of the new DB2/400 adapter introduced earlier this year, which should improve the interoperability of PHP applications and DB2/400 data. The update also includes various other AJAX-related enhancements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zend provided an early release of the DB2/400 adapter with the delivery of Zend Core for IBM i 2.6 in September. At the time, Zend said the new adapter would provide better, faster, and more secure access to existing data and applications residing on System i server.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After poking and prodding at beta sites and the resolution of various technical issues, the DB2/400 adapter was declared ready for prime time at Adobe Systems's MAX conference in San Francisco last month, which was the venue for the launch of Zend Framework 1.7.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zend Framework 1.7 brings other enhancements, in addition to the new data adapter. For instance, load times have improved by 25 to 50 percent, Zend says, and support for the Action Message Format (AMF) data transfer protocol should improve the product's integration with Adobe's Flex and Flash programming technologies for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other enhancements include a new editor for the Dojo Toolkit, called dijit. Dojo, which was introduced to System i shops with Zend Core for IBM i 2.6, is an open-source collection of JavaScript tools designed to help developers implement graphical and architectural elements of AJAX applications. Zend Framework 1.7 also introduces support for JQuery, a popular AJAX library that was contributed by the Zend community to the larger open source community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In further news, Zend is now selling support subscriptions for IBM i customers utilizing Zend Framework 1.7. The subscriptions give customers access to Zend resources for gaining support over the Web and troubleshooting or answering basic questions. The standard support package costs $1,500 and gives customers access to five Web-based incidents and two hours of consulting, while the premium package, which costs $2,500, provides 10 Web-based incidents and three hours of consulting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- itjungle.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5007380550737150225?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5007380550737150225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5007380550737150225' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5007380550737150225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5007380550737150225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/zend-framework-17-includes-db2400.html' title='Zend Framework 1.7 Includes DB2/400 Adapter'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7122214370849785635</id><published>2008-12-11T13:11:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-11T13:12:17.460+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Linux Computer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Linux server'/><title type='text'>The world's fastest computers are Linux computers</title><content type='html'>There are fast computers, and then there are Linux fast computers. Every six months, the Top 500 organization announces "its ranked list of general purpose systems that are in common use for high end applications." In other words, supercomputers. And, as has been the case for years now, the fastest of the fast are Linux computers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group points out, Linux is only growing stronger in supercomputing. "When considered as the primary OS or part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list. This represents about 10 more sites than in November 2007, when Linux had presence in 91.8% of the systems. In fact, Linux is the only operating system that managed gains in the November 2008 list. A year ago, Linux was the OS for 84.6% of the top supercomputers. In November 2008, the open source OS was used in 87.8% of the systems. Compare this to Unix, which dropped from 6% to 4.6%, mixed-OS use which dropped from 7.2% to 6.2% and other operating systems, including BSD, Mac OS X and Windows, which were all down this year from the November 2007 list."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft is proud that a system running Windows HPC Server 2008 took 10th place... behind nine supercomputers running Linux. Even then, this was really more of a stunt than a demonstration that the HPC Server system is ready to compete with the big boys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, there are no Microsoft programming tools to write supercomputer compatible applications. That will come years from now with Visual Studio 2010 and when Microsoft's F# is more than a research project language. In short, Windows HPC isn't ready for prime-time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, the real work is being done on the Linux computers. The number one supercomputer? Once more it's IBM's Linux-powered Roadrunner That's the same supercomputer, which this summer broke supercomputing's sound barrier: a sustained run of more than one petaflop per second or 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. Beat that Microsoft!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Roadrunner does have competition now though. The Cray XT Jaguar also recently busted the petaflop wall. The Cray also, of course, runs Linux. In the XT's case, it's running CNL (Compute Node Linux). CNL is based on SUSE Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, all the Linux systems do have working parallel-processing languages, like GCC, PGI and PathScale. For now, and the foreseeable future, Linux will not only stay the fastest computers, they'll also be the most useful fast computers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- blogs.computerworld.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7122214370849785635?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7122214370849785635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7122214370849785635' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7122214370849785635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7122214370849785635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/worlds-fastest-computers-are-linux.html' title='The world&apos;s fastest computers are Linux computers'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5178320905089583214</id><published>2008-12-09T11:54:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-09T11:59:16.799+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Articles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='php zend framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Programmer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='php framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Developer'/><title type='text'>PHP Zend Framework 1.7 adds Adobe support</title><content type='html'>The open source Zend Framework 1.7 is now available expanding the PHP framework to work better with Adobe Flex and AIR applications. Adobe and Zend announced back in September that they would be collaborating for Zend Framework and now they've delivered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Adobe and Zend have been working together to make Flex and AIR application development much easier for PHP developers," Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans blogged " This announcement marks a significant milestone in those efforts with the production release of the Zend_Amf component in ZF 1.7. Now PHP 5 developers can use the open, binary AMF3 protocol (think of it as ActionScript's native tongue) as easily as any other server-client protocol in Zend Framework."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Action Message Format (AMF) is the protocol that Flex uses to talk to the back end enabling both Flex and Flash based applications to exchange data with servers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Zend Framework 1.7 also includes some other neat features that PHP developers will likely benefit from. Among them is the ZendX_JQuery module which provides integration with the JQuery JavaScript toolkit. There is also support in the Zend_Search_Lucene module for indexing Office Open XML documents which could be a very useful thing too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 1.7 release comes just under three months after the Zend Framework 1.6 release which made Figlets into something useful for CAPTCHA (if you haven't read that story, you should). Great to see that regular progress continues to be made on this PHP framework. It's something that continues to re-inforce the fact that PHP is still a very modern and capable language for web application development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- blog.internetnews.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5178320905089583214?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5178320905089583214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5178320905089583214' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5178320905089583214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5178320905089583214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/php-zend-framework-17-adds-adobe.html' title='PHP Zend Framework 1.7 adds Adobe support'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3592785378569721289</id><published>2008-12-08T19:07:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-08T19:08:04.115+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point Development Company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft SharePoint Server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MS SharePoint Server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share Point Server 2007'/><title type='text'>SharePoint Templates: Helpful tools in Hosted SharePoint Web Sites</title><content type='html'>Providing a starting point for the developers and the partner who look forward to build deeper solutions based on SharePoint hosting, the SharePoint Templates caters to the different business process needs in organization (irrespective of the size of the organizations). Fully compatible with the Microsoft office SharePoint designer 2007, the SharePoint Templates can actually be divided into two separate groups namely server admin templates and site admin templates. Providing out-of-the-box custom scenarios, the SharePoint Templates in SharePoint WSS 3.0 hosting can be applied in certain business tasks like sales campaign tracking or managing the helpdesk. Site admin templates are custom SharePoint Templates which can be easily installed into the template gallery by a SharePoint site administrator without requiring access to server administration. Server admin SharePoint Templates are site definitions. They enable tighter integration and increased functionality within Windows SharePoint Services platform. As against the Site admin templates their installation requires a server administrator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Application Templates which are out-of-the-box options and are pre-created can help you to start with your hosted SharePoint web site, or pages inside SharePoint Hosting Site. Easily applicable to the new pages, the SharePoint Templates and can be easily manipulated and changed, just like you do while building a SharePoint page from right from the scratch. The application templates also help to create web based applications which are capable of increasing the overall efficiency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are in total 40 SharePoint Templates created by Microsoft. These templates do not only save time but also increases the overall efficiency and also helps in the manipulation of the web parts (which are used to construct the SharePoint pages). The SharePoint templates are added or removed or can be edited according to your needs. All that you need to do is to identify your needs… You have a solution to your problem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- hostreview.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3592785378569721289?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3592785378569721289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3592785378569721289' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3592785378569721289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3592785378569721289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/sharepoint-templates-helpful-tools-in.html' title='SharePoint Templates: Helpful tools in Hosted SharePoint Web Sites'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3021420790759497026</id><published>2008-12-07T16:07:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-07T18:32:50.273+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SharePoint server 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SharePoint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Window SharePoint services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SharePoint server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moss Mini calendar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Window SharePoint Timer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mini calendar'/><title type='text'>Moss Mini Calendar by offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prerequisites &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1)   We need to make sure that timer job is running from:&lt;br /&gt;Administrative Tools &gt;&gt; Services &gt;&gt; Windows SharePoint Services Timer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvBPBxVyiI/AAAAAAAAAE0/l7xjAj4-VXY/s1600-h/MC-1.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvBPBxVyiI/AAAAAAAAAE0/l7xjAj4-VXY/s400/MC-1.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277023852312250914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvDw6vYnXI/AAAAAAAAAE8/p1e-YT77KtM/s1600-h/MC-2.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvDw6vYnXI/AAAAAAAAAE8/p1e-YT77KtM/s400/MC-2.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277026633563807090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;If service is not started please start it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2)  Check whether solution is deployed or not.&lt;br /&gt;From - Central administration &gt;&gt; Operations &gt;&gt; Solutions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvEMCIhScI/AAAAAAAAAFE/xqerDbpwnUU/s1600-h/MC-3.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvEMCIhScI/AAAAAAAAAFE/xqerDbpwnUU/s400/MC-3.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027099404749250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3)  If it is deployed then they can go ahead and activate feature manually by going to site collection&lt;br /&gt;Site Actions &gt;&gt; Site Settings &gt;&gt; Modify All Site Settings &gt;&gt; Site Collection Features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvEn8ZQ8VI/AAAAAAAAAFM/gV-sQhOFFL4/s1600-h/MC-4.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvEn8ZQ8VI/AAAAAAAAAFM/gV-sQhOFFL4/s400/MC-4.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027578900705618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working with Maven Infosoft’s MOSS Mini Calendar&lt;br /&gt;There is often need to share information about important dates, appointments and meetings. The Maven Infosoft’s MOSS Mini Calendar provides all information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you import Maven Infosoft’s MOSS Mini Calendar on site it looks like as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvE8EZwtPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/6pfiQP-1EYw/s1600-h/MC-5.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvE8EZwtPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/6pfiQP-1EYw/s400/MC-5.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277027924647654642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(Fig. 1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When click on Modify Shared Web Part (right top corner) of Fig. 1, it looks like as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvFVwkH_nI/AAAAAAAAAFc/iSnOYut2cqI/s1600-h/MC-6.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvFVwkH_nI/AAAAAAAAAFc/iSnOYut2cqI/s400/MC-6.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277028365999013490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;( Fig. 2 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you see on right side of Fig. 2 are custom properties of the mini calendar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;1.    About us:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; When click on this, it displays Maven Infosoft’s details in popup window.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;2.    Select a list:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It contains variety of contents like documents, form and templates,   master page gallery, web part gallery etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;3.    Select a display column:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It contains different columns like name, title, created by, modify by related to selected list item. What you want to display on calendar please select from this list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;4.    Select a view to filter calendar items:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; select which items to display related to calendar item.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;5.    Select a date column to base the calendar on:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Means which items to display related to date column (e.g. created, modify).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;6.    Select a Background Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets calendar date cells background color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;7.    Select a Body Text Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets calendar date cells text color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;8.    Select a Border Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets calendar border color. It also sets calendar’s title back color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;9.    Select a Border Font Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets calendar’s title fore color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;10. Select a Highlight Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets color on that cells where there are some events display in popup window by moving mouse over on cell as follow -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Highlight Color&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvF-3ilZyI/AAAAAAAAAFk/8Px3VV_crBI/s1600-h/MC-7.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 235px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvF-3ilZyI/AAAAAAAAAFk/8Px3VV_crBI/s400/MC-7.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277029072246236962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;11. Select a Highlight Font Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Highlight Font Color&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvGUS9W95I/AAAAAAAAAFs/cJ_H7SNrWF4/s1600-h/MC-8.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 236px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvGUS9W95I/AAAAAAAAAFs/cJ_H7SNrWF4/s400/MC-8.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277029440383547282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;12. Select a Day Header Background Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets the calendar’s day header background color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Day Header Background color&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvGk-T_8QI/AAAAAAAAAF0/1xHlVCC9xrA/s1600-h/MC-9.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 235px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvGk-T_8QI/AAAAAAAAAF0/1xHlVCC9xrA/s400/MC-9.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277029726899138818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;13. Select a Day Header Fore Color:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It sets the calendar’s day header font color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Day Header Fore color&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvG2SD_O1I/AAAAAAAAAF8/OT3ETAEGxq0/s1600-h/MC-10.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvG2SD_O1I/AAAAAAAAAF8/OT3ETAEGxq0/s400/MC-10.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277030024258468690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By setting all above properties, click on OK button it display as Fig.1. Now When you take mouse over the highlight cell it display popup window as follow –&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvHGCC7xFI/AAAAAAAAAGE/jBxrBl8-YEw/s1600-h/MC-11.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvHGCC7xFI/AAAAAAAAAGE/jBxrBl8-YEw/s400/MC-11.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277030294836986962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Popup window&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;When click on any items it goes to that particular page.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3021420790759497026?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3021420790759497026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3021420790759497026' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3021420790759497026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3021420790759497026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/moss-mini-calendar-by.html' title='Moss Mini Calendar by offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/STvBPBxVyiI/AAAAAAAAAE0/l7xjAj4-VXY/s72-c/MC-1.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3233592642391124436</id><published>2008-12-07T13:35:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-07T13:36:17.461+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point Development Company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MS SharePoint Server'/><title type='text'>Microsoft Launches Online Exchange, SharePoint</title><content type='html'>Microsoft on Monday officially launched hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint, two of its biggest on-premise cash cows, and continued to drive home the message that channel partners have nothing to fear from Microsoft's plan to move all its enterprise apps to the cloud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exchange Online and SharePoint Online are part of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which also includes Live Meeting and Office Communications Server, although the latter is still in beta and won't be available until next spring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a launch event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, said companies can reap cost savings of between 10 and 50 percent by moving to Microsoft-hosted SharePoint and Exchange services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft's launch last month of the Windows Azure cloud-based development platform marked a significant step forward for Microsoft's Software Plus Services strategy, which blends on-premise software with Microsoft-hosted apps delivered over the Web from Microsoft's data centers, Elop said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft has already sold more that 500,000 seats of Exchange Online since making it available to enterprises last year, but has also seen "a tremendous amount of interest" in BPOS from companies of all sizes, Elop said. More than 1500 companies have signed up for the Microsoft Partner Program for Microsoft Online Services since its launch in July, he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In July at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, some solution providers were upset by the commission structure for BPOS as well as by Microsoft's revelation that it would take over control of billing customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exchange Online is priced at $10 per user/month, SharePoint Online per user/month is $7.25. Office Communications Server Online will be $2.50 per user/month, and LiveMeeting will be $4.50 per user/month. Microsoft will offer these services in one-year automatically renewing agreements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the Monday launch event, Elop insisted that Microsoft has maintained "a deliberate dependence" on its partner ecosystem by offering VARs the chance to develop recurring revenue streams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To illustrate what Elop described as the "absolutely overwhelming" channel response to Exchange and SharePoint Online, Microsoft had several partners on hand to discuss deployment scenarios. These case studies helped underscore Microsoft's mantra that VARs can adapt their business models by focusing on value-added migration and customization services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The whole world is changing. It requires change, but it's representative of what's going on in the market today," said Elop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Smith, director of marketing at Phase 2 International, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based solution provider, says in the current economic environment, his customers are finding it easier to pay a monthly subscription as opposed to a major one-time capital expenditure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smith admits that the Microsoft's WPC announcement was initially ominous for Microsoft hosting partners, but said the practical realities of deploying on-premise Microsoft apps quickly dissolved those fears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We've never had a customer who was satisfied with an out-of-the-box, Microsoft application," Smith said. "Every customer, without exception, has required some level of support, training, integration, or customization."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- crn.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3233592642391124436?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3233592642391124436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3233592642391124436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3233592642391124436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3233592642391124436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/microsoft-launches-online-exchange.html' title='Microsoft Launches Online Exchange, SharePoint'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-165348056905715437</id><published>2008-12-07T13:11:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-07T13:14:45.294+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share Point Server Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharepoint Blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Share point'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint Development India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server'/><title type='text'>The SharePoint Upgrade Trap</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;SharePoint 2007 migrations are simple enough, but beware of hidden dangers. Here's a look at some of the more common upgrade and migration problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;When I think about the process of migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007, the phrase "deceptively simple" comes to mind. Microsoft gives you the option of either performing an in-place upgrade or a migration. If you choose the in-place upgrade option, all you have to do is insert an installation disk, answer a basic question or two, click Next a few times, and you're good to go. &lt;p&gt;Simple, right? So why qualify the process as deceptively simple? Well, there's a lot that can go wrong. Let's look a bit more closely at some of the caveats to the upgrade or migration process and what you can do to avoid some common problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="intelliTXT"&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Upgrade Paths&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing that you need to know about the upgrade process is that not every version of SharePoint can be directly upgraded. SharePoint 2007 supports in-place upgrades from SharePoint 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. &lt;p&gt;If you are running Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, then the easiest way to upgrade is to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then to SharePoint 2007. Microsoft offers a full upgrade toolkit that can help you to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to 3.0. You can download this toolkit here.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you happen to be running Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, then you will not be able to do an in-place upgrade, but you can migrate the server's content.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What Could Go Wrong?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if an upgrade or migration is so easy, what could possibly go wrong? Even though Microsoft has thoroughly tested the upgrade and migration features, they have no way of knowing about any custom code that you might be running. The migration or upgrade process works really well if you are using only stock Web parts, but things become a bit sketchy when you start introducing customizations.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;One classic example of this is that if you use a tool such as Microsoft FrontPage to customize a SharePoint site, that site is said to be unghosted. What this means is that when the migration completes, the site will still retain some of the look and feel of the SharePoint 2003 site, because Setup doesn't know how to convert Web parts that do not comply with some default parameters. Fortunately, Microsoft does provide administrators with a way to return a site to a ghosted status once the migration is complete.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Path of Most Resistance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, the upgrade or migration process is not always as easy as you might at first be lead to believe. That being the case, I strongly recommend performing a trial upgrade or a trial migration. That way, you can find out about any potential issues ahead of time, without affecting your production servers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The easiest way of performing a trial upgrade or a trial migration is to get a couple of high-end PCs that you can temporarily configure as servers. Once you have these PCs in place, you can place them on an isolated network and then restore your SharePoint backups to them. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Using an isolated network is important -- you don't want your trial migration to impact your production network in any way. The down side to using an isolated network segment is that you will need to set up at least one domain controller and at least one DNS server on it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;One of the easiest ways to bring an infrastructure server onto your isolated network segment is to install a trial version of Windows Server onto a PC and then use DCPROMO to promote it to a domain controller. Once you have done that, then you can physically remove the new domain controller from your production network, and then attach it to your isolated segment. You will then need to seize the operations master roles and configure the domain controller to act as a DNS server. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that because you have seized the operations master roles, you won't be able to plug the domain controller back into your production network. That being the case, you will need to use the Active Directory Users and Computers console to remove the references to your new domain controller from your Active Directory.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It's a lot of work to get the SharePoint server and the domain controller in place for a trial migration or upgrade. The nice thing about using this method though, is that it allows you to get an accurate feel for how the transitioning process will go when you eventually try it on your production network. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that even if it appears that your trial migration or upgrade was successful, you need to have some of your power users log into your isolated network and interact with your SharePoint site in the same way that they do on the production network. Having experienced users to thoroughly test the post-migration lab network is the only way that you will be able to tell for sure whether or not there were problems with the migration process.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Simple Plan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, if you have created any custom Web parts, made customizations to existing Web parts, or purchased any third party SharePoint add-ons, then there is no way of knowing exactly what is going to happen during the upgrade or migration process. That's why it is so important to thoroughly test your migration plan before you attempt to upgrade or migrate your production servers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source:- rcpmag.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-165348056905715437?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/165348056905715437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=165348056905715437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/165348056905715437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/165348056905715437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/sharepoint-upgrade-trap.html' title='The SharePoint Upgrade Trap'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4367685432827721554</id><published>2008-12-07T12:45:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-07T12:45:48.579+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM&apos;s Tracker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><title type='text'>SugarCRM Keeps You Closer to Your Customers</title><content type='html'>In trying economic times, it's critical to keep your business in close contact with customers, so you can capture otherwise elusive revenue opportunities. Customer relationship management (CRM) applications such as SugarCRM help ensure that your sales stay on track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like most CRM apps, SugarCRM tracks your contacts, appointments, and sales opportunities. On top of that, however, it offers better-than-average graphs that let you check your progress in meeting sales quotas. You can easily modify the app's terminology, as well as its look and feel, until it's just right for your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though its CRM capabilities are more robust than those of Microsoft Outlook or Sage's venerable Act contact manager, it doesn't provide all the integrated financial capabilities (such as tie-ins to invoicing) that you get in an online service such as NetSuite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I looked at the hosted version of SugarCRM, which offers accounts that are reasonably priced for a small business, starting as low as $40 per user, per month. SugarCRM is also available as packaged software--including a free open-source edition--that you can install on your own server.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Using SugarCRM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SugarCRM's flexibility is particularly sweet. You can change the look of the app, making relatively small modifications (such as a font color) or giving it a major overhaul by selecting a theme that revamps both its appearance and navigation. You can decide which components, called "dashlets," you wish to display. You can also change the names of assorted fields to customize them for your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The user panel is thoughtfully laid out, with tabs that direct you to a dashboard with charts, a calendar, contacts, sales opportunities, marketing campaigns, sales leads, and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key component in any CRM app is the way it allows you to track customer interest in your company's goods and services. This is where SugarCRM shines, as it lets you monitor progress from the initial lead. You can track the potential sales and likelihood of a deal, with best, likely, and worst-case scenarios that you specify.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;SugarCRM Integration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're like most businesspeople, you already track your contacts in your PC and have no desire to reenter all that information. SugarCRM can import contact data from popular programs such as Outlook, Act, and the online CRM service Salesforce.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autosync with Outlook is also supported, permitting you to modify your contacts and calendar appointments in either SugarCRM or Outlook and transfer the changes to the other application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plug-ins for Microsoft Word and Excel (the latter currently in beta testing) let you use Word templates and Excel spreadsheets to prepare special reports and analyze data to your heart's content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Which SugarCRM Is Best?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SugarCRM is available in both hosted and on-site options. The hosted editions are Professional On-Demand ($480 per user, per year) and Enterprise On-Demand ($900 per user, per year). Professional includes most of what a small business requires in CRM. Enterprise adds advanced capabilities such as offline client synchronization, more-sophisticated reporting, and support for the Oracle database.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On-site options that you can install on your own server (which I didn't review) include both Enterprise ($449 per user, per year) and Professional ($275 per user, per year), along with the free Community edition. All editions other than Community require a five-user minimum order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're seeking more customer contact tracking capabilities than Microsoft Outlook provides, SugarCRM could deliver what you need. The no-cost Community edition lets you try it out risk-free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- pcworld.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-4367685432827721554?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/4367685432827721554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=4367685432827721554' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4367685432827721554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4367685432827721554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/12/sugarcrm-keeps-you-closer-to-your.html' title='SugarCRM Keeps You Closer to Your Customers'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-6913051121780110192</id><published>2008-11-20T15:13:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-20T15:25:51.663+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Blog'/><title type='text'>Magento version release 1.1.7</title><content type='html'>In keeping with its proven history of coming up with effective enhancement time and again, Magento has released new version with number of fixes and improvements.&lt;br /&gt;Magento, the proven high end open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control, the new release covers over 350 issue resolutions with new functionalities.&lt;br /&gt;Google Website Optimizer Integration in Magento 1.1.7 is a major enhancement to the application. Website Optimizer is an easy-to-use tool for testing site content that delivers actionable results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the list of major highlights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Google Website Optimizer integration&lt;br /&gt;• Google Base integration&lt;br /&gt;• Scheduled DB logs cleaning option&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offshore software Development India offers all the extensions for the new versions. All the Magento extensions developed at Offshore software Development India are compatible with the new version of the Magento.&lt;br /&gt;Please find following services for the new version of the Magento by Offshore software Development India.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento Payment Gateway Solutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. iVeri&lt;br /&gt;2. paymentec&lt;br /&gt;3. safepay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento Custom Extensions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Magento Advance Search Extension.&lt;br /&gt;2. Magento Non Product Search Extension.&lt;br /&gt;3. Shopping Cart Extension.&lt;br /&gt;4. Custom Shipping Charges Extension.&lt;br /&gt;5. Custom Shipping Date Extension.&lt;br /&gt;6. Image Rotation Extension.&lt;br /&gt;7. Click and Popup Product Extension&lt;br /&gt;8. Hide price Extension.&lt;br /&gt;9. Custom Sitemap Extension.&lt;br /&gt;10. Feature/ Clearance / Sales / New Arrivals Extension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento Data/Site Migration Solutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Migrate OSCommerce site to Magento.&lt;br /&gt;2. Migrate any ecommerce site to Magento.&lt;br /&gt;3. Migrating Data to Magento Site&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento Theme Design Solutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Magento custom design templates and themes.&lt;br /&gt;2. Magento themes from PSD/JPEG/Any Site.&lt;br /&gt;3. Migrating Data to Magento Site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information please refer http://www.offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com/php-mysql-pgsql-programming/magento-customization-solutions.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-6913051121780110192?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/6913051121780110192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=6913051121780110192' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6913051121780110192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6913051121780110192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/magento-version-release-117.html' title='Magento version release 1.1.7'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8715856499611298922</id><published>2008-11-14T15:34:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-14T15:43:00.315+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimizer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>SEO Helps Small Companies be the Big Fish</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the benefits of working at Oneupweb is our location here in Traverse City, Michigan. Not familiar with northwest lower Michigan? Check out the Our Area page for a small photo sampling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oneupweb is located at the southeast corner of Leelanau County, which makes our office a great starting point for after-work and weekend excursions. One-stop-sign towns are scattered throughout Leelanau County, and are nestled in and around natural and man-made landmarks such as the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Grand Traverse Lighthouse.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Leelanau County is the kind of place that thrives on tourists and summer residents from May through September but turns peacefully silent the moment the last orange leaf blows off the maple tree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Following the great exodus, the million dollar question many Leelanau County locals try to answer is how to make a good enough living to allow for the opportunity to live here year around. As a result, a handful of enterprising individuals have created businesses specializing in niche products with a Leelanau County flair. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For the most part, these companies rely on internet mail order, local and national word-of-mouth (tourists are great at word-of-mouth), catalog mailings, the holiday gift show circuit, holiday gift giving and pleading with those Oprah people in Chicago to get in on some list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Some of these companies have done an amazing job with these marketing techniques and are distributing their products all over the world, while others are still trying to get off the ground. Locally these companies are big fish in a small pond, but nationally they are small fish in a big lake. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So how does search engine optimization (SEO) fit into this?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I ran a few of these local companies' product keywords through the old Google machine and with the exception of one company that is a giant in the cherry products industry, none of them placed very high on a search engine results page (SERP). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After poking around a few of their websites, it didn't take long to start finding substantial mistakes which hampered their ability to place strongly on a SERP. Not good for the little fish. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now this is where SEO can turn that little Yellow Perch of a Leelanau County business into the proverbial King Salmon.    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What gets me excited about SEO is that it can give a small mail order company with an incredible product the opportunity to have a large presence in its given market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Marketing departments, in companies large and small, need to consider how SEO can help give them the exposure that they are working so hard for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Don't be the little fish in the pond. Learn how SEO can give you the opportunity to be the big fish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Source:- straightupsearch.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8715856499611298922?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8715856499611298922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8715856499611298922' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8715856499611298922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8715856499611298922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/seo-helps-small-companies-be-big-fish.html' title='SEO Helps Small Companies be the Big Fish'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8110269509370308799</id><published>2008-11-13T10:47:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-13T10:54:32.895+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MySQL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Content management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cms tips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Content Management System'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CMS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>The quest for the perfect Content Management System</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As the Web has grown, the problem of content management seems to have absorbed more time and energy than even the effort required to create actual content. As a consequence the quest for the perfect Content Management System (CMS) has become high on the list of many corporations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the more highly regarded CMS solutions is Joomla, a free, open source, cross platform product that has developed a huge following and is now used by the likes of the United Nations, MTV, Harvard University, and Citibank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joomla requires PHP and MySQL along with Apache or Microsoft IIS and can manage any kind of content including text, photos, music, and video. What’s even more impressive is that Joomla is also a content management framework that can be augmented to support other content and process management goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These modifications are provided by extensions and the Joomla Extensions Directory currently lists a total of 3,996 extensions that cover everything from adding CAPTCHA support through to file managers and RSS syndication to CRM, help desk, shopping carts, and wiki integration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the extensions that is currently receiving a lot of attention is Teamlog published by YOOtheme GmbH, a Joomla development company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teamlog, which is currently in beta and free, adds an AJAX-driven time tracking interface to Joomla for project management. Designed to be very simple to use, Teamlog supports tracking of tasks and to-do items and is designed to be “foolproof” – essentially providing a working plan for multiple projects along with extensive reporting and statistics for teams of any size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teamlog is very impressive and I’ve heard from other users that it quickly becomes indispensable particularly in distributed environments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are looking for a CMS, Joomla is worth considering; and if you need project-based time tracking, Teamlog is definitely worth considering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Footnote: I have to note that on its Web site, materials promoting Teamlog YOOtheme includes some video tours of Teamlog. These are awful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here you have a terrific application and the voice over sounds like the speaker is disinterested and totally unenthused with what he’s presenting. Worse still the narrative is disorganized!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your organization has any kind of presentation materials on line you must make sure that the effect of them is to sell and excite otherwise you are simply squandering opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- networkworld.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8110269509370308799?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8110269509370308799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8110269509370308799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8110269509370308799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8110269509370308799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/quest-for-perfect-content-management.html' title='The quest for the perfect Content Management System'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8434371505799822176</id><published>2008-11-13T10:43:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-13T10:44:02.651+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo News India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimizer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>SEO tips to get targeted traffic for your site</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Unlike paid marketing, organic marketing or SEO is much more cost effective. The matter relies on how to do SEO effectively to get the most out of it, which means you can get massive targeted traffic within your time and money budget..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;SEARCH ENGINE Optimisation (SEO) – is a process to optimise your website position in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), which means your website should appear at the first ranking for specific keywords on the first page of any search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why to do SEO? First, it maximises your web traffic because it’s the most visible in surfers’ search. The more visitors your website has, the better your conversion rates and ROI are and thus the higher your profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, unlike paid marketing, organic marketing or SEO is much more cost effective. You won’t have to pay for the traffic or the clicks themselves. More than that if you have time and knowledge, you can generate traffic yourself so your organic traffic can be completely free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The matter relies on how to do SEO effectively to get the most out of it, which means you can get massive targeted traffic within your time and money budget. Some webmasters will opt to do everything themselves. However, they often get stuck half way being hopeless to wait for their website to get high rankings and the traffic to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reasons can be simply either they are not aware of the latest Internet marketing techniques, which are being developed day by day by professional Internet marketers, or they just aren’t doing them the correct ways. Another reason can be they don’t have that much time to manage and complete the SEO process and leave it undone without having any results yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those reasons, most of online business owners nowadays choose to outsource to reliable Search Engine Optimisers (SEOs). Among the leading SEOs in the current market, traffic assistants can be considered the best with their core competency in exclusive Internet marketing services provided by professional Internet marketers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- merinews.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8434371505799822176?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8434371505799822176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8434371505799822176' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8434371505799822176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8434371505799822176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/seo-tips-to-get-targeted-traffic-for.html' title='SEO tips to get targeted traffic for your site'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8678292937143707386</id><published>2008-11-13T10:14:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-13T10:19:51.613+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Benefits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimizer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>Very Helpful Search Engine Marketing Strategies</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Articles and press releases are two very helpful search engine marketing strategies that a lot of marketers still use today. But unlike in the past wherein the articles and press release can easily be found by the online community, the massive amount of articles and press releases today have made it more difficult for one to be singled out from the rest. It is now close to impossible that a press release about your new product or an article would be read by everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nevertheless, many companies still send out press releases and articles .Fact of the matter is there are some articles and some press releases that are read by customers. Despite the heavy competition, there is still a way to reach your customers through the articles and press releases .For more details visit to www.writing-fast-cash.com. The key is to create something that will capture their attention and will intrigue them enough to investigate and go to your website, user profile, or information center.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here are some tips on how to make an article or press release that would stand among the thousands of other articles and press releases:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Get to Know Your Target Audience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Press releases and articles also have target audiences. We know that. We don‘t write and publish something just for ourselves; we do it for the benefit of others, too. When marketing, press release and articles are meant to be read by your target audience and you keep them in mind when creating that press release or article.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Knowing your target audience will enable you to write in a way as if you‘re “speaking in their language.” you would know ho to communicate to your target market and in the process capture their attention. You‘ll be able to include facts and information that you know would be beneficial for them and therefore will appeal to them. You will also be able to optimize your press release or article by defining the best keywords, knowing what keywords your target audience would be looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Optimize Through Keywords&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In knowing who your target audience is, you can research on what keywords to focus on to optimize your article or press release. Once you‘ve found the best keyword for the article or press release, make it as a basis when writing. Optimizing through the keywords will help with your rankings in the search engines as the crawlers can read the press releases and articles. If your article or press release is about a certain subject, and you‘ve honed on it very well, it can rank very high on the search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Be Creative and Stand Out!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Stand out. You know there‘s a very fierce competition out there. Thousands of pres releases and articles are sent across the Web through the sites, emails, directories, and feeds. You need to do more than just write correctly... you need to write creatively! You need to think on how your article or press release can be of better help to the customers than the other articles or press releases. You need to give the audience a reason why they should pick your article or press release among the many thousand others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Optimize On the Title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The title of the article or press release, not just the keywords, also counts in optimization. Each article or press release should have a title that revolves around the keywords you chose. This will help in the search engine rankings and for more visibility when the keywords are being searched. For more information logon to www.article-writing-secret.com.Of course, you should not forget to make the title interesting to hook the readers to read your article or press release. It will help to communicate easily with your customers and can drive traffic to your website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Add an Image to Go With the Article or Press Release&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;An article or press release with an image or picture is much more enjoyable o read and look at than a plain one. Many readers usually don‘t read much at their first glance at an article or press release. Adding an image could lead them to read your article when it captures their attention. It‘s another way for your article or press release to stand out!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Choosing the Distribution Channels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Submitting your press release or article on big PR distribution sites and article directories may NOT always be the best course to take. While the services will work just fine, you might want to take a course wherein you know you‘ll get more exposure and quality coverage in your own market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Source:- promotionworld.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8678292937143707386?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8678292937143707386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8678292937143707386' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8678292937143707386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8678292937143707386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/very-helpful-search-engine-marketing.html' title='Very Helpful Search Engine Marketing Strategies'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8070728472192315322</id><published>2008-11-12T15:57:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-12T15:58:12.753+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo News India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Benefits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>Business column: Boost your marketing with online search tools</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;Search-engine optimization is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a Web site. When SEO is done properly, it will place you high on search-engine result pages for certain key phrases and terms (i.e. real estate, law firms, doctor, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;In today's online-driven world, the names Google, Yahoo and MSN are rapidly becoming more of a household name than the Yellow Pages. Most of us now have access to the Internet via work, home and mobile phone. According to research by Jupiter Media way back in 2004, more than 64 percent of people who are looking for information online use search engines. The number is closer to 80 percent today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="brkTitle" style="padding: 5px 0pt 0pt; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;Low risk, high impact&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;In these tough economic times, business owners are becoming increasingly challenged and conservative with their marketing budgets. Most of us are seeking low-risk, high-impact marketing options in a down economy. When it comes to meeting these needs, search engines like Google provide a viable and cost effective solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;So where should your advertising dollars be spent in today's market?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;Consider the traditional advertising option of the yellow pages. For a prominent ad, your costs could be thousands of dollars per month Also, Yellow Page ads have limited flexibility, and you are usually locked in to a one-year commitment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 class="brkTitle" style="padding: 5px 0pt 0pt; text-transform: none; text-align: justify;"&gt;Optimize your Web site&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;How many times have you used the paper Yellow Pages this month?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;How many times have you searched for a business or service on Google or Yahoo this month?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;Now consider your Web site. You can further your business leads by making sure that more people are viewing it. You can optimize your Web site to rank in the main listings without any media spending at all. You can test multiple ads and list under multiple words or phrases all at the same time and get instant tracking on which ads are working for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;The major search engines also can determine where the search is coming from. This means you can target ads all the way down to a city, or ZIP code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;If you are not currently utilizing this marketing channel, I recommend you take half of your local marketing this year and invest in search optimization or paid search ads. Work with a search-analytics professional to track the new program for 90 days. You likely will be surprised to see who's been searching for you, and see an immediate impact for your business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="articleGraf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Source:- recordonline.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8070728472192315322?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8070728472192315322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8070728472192315322' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8070728472192315322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8070728472192315322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/business-column-boost-your-marketing.html' title='Business column: Boost your marketing with online search tools'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5279849385292240275</id><published>2008-11-12T15:35:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-12T15:41:13.113+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM&apos;s Tracker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MySQL Server'/><title type='text'>SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;SugarCRM seems to be doing quite well, at least well enough to rankle its larger competitor Salesforce. John Roberts, the CEO of SugarCRM says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce wasn’t too pleased when he found out SugarCRM was hosting its user conference at the Marriott, just a few yards from the Salesforce Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When Marc Benioff found out we were at the Marriott he pressured the hotel to move us out. That’s how we ended up here at the St. Regis, and Marriott is paying for it.” The move might have backfired for Salesforce because the St. Regis is a lot nicer than the Marriott and just as close to the Moscone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The reason SugarCRM might be irking Mr Benioff is that it’s growing very fast. “We now have more than four thousand customers, and more than half-a-million users, in 80 languages. That’s in just four years.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;While Mr Roberts credits Marc Benioff with educating the market about the benefits of software as a service, he says SugarCRM is winning business because there isn’t any customer lock-in as there is with Salesforce and its proprietary behavior. For example, application developers for the Salesforce Force.com platform have to use a programming language called Apex.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“What is the point of Apex? We built SugarCRM in PHP and we use Internet standard technologies. We are open source, our technologies are owned by the Internet. We view ourselves as the Linux of the CRM world.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Much of the demand for SugarCRM comes from word of mouth, says Mr Roberts. “I don’t have to have a big sales force that needs to travel all over the place.” Daily downloads average 5,000 per day and recently exceeded 5 million total. Site licenses are $449 per user or customers can choose to the on-demand version for just $40 per month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“The Internet has totally changed the software industry. We allow our customers to try before they buy.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;SugarCRM is home grown and developed in Cupertino from scratch. “We don’t off-shore development. I don’t believe that you can build innovative software that way,” Mr Roberts says.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The company has strong growth and money in the bank. “We raised $20m last year but we haven’t had to touch it. We were planning an IPO in 2008 and we needed to show we had $20m in cash.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mr Roberts says the company might have to wait until 2010 before it can IPO. SugarCRM was hoping that MySQL would be the first commercial open source company to have a successful IPO. But MySQL abandoned its IPO plans and agreed to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1bn at the beginning of this year. Now SugarCRM could become the first commercial open source public company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Until the IPO market reopens, Mr Roberts isn’t twiddling his thumbs. “There are five million businesses in the US, and only 10 per cent of them have CRM, the rest are using spreadsheets. That’s a huge opportunity for us.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- blogs.zdnet.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5279849385292240275?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5279849385292240275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5279849385292240275' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5279849385292240275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5279849385292240275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/sugarcrm-wants-to-be-linux-of-crm-world.html' title='SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3354871025659746122</id><published>2008-11-12T15:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-12T15:31:19.528+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open-source Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source software'/><title type='text'>Microsoft "Not Against" Open Source</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The division between proprietary software vendors and open-source providers is not as clear as some industry players perceive it to be. As more enterprises consider adopting open source technologies, even traditional software vendors such as Microsoft have taken steps in responding to such customer needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Open source is not a product but an approach to software development," said Matthew Hardman, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Singapore. "Microsoft does not compete with open source, just as Nike does not compete with running."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hardman said the software giant seeks to provide the best possible platform' for open source applications to run. "We believe that enterprises and vendors should have a choice of software development methodology, and open source is one such choice."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The platform strategy manager noted however, that Microsoft will compete with open source-based providers, just as it also competes with other proprietary vendors.&lt;br /&gt;Open-source contributions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Hardman, Microsoft has contributed to technologies that are deemed open source. "PHP, a technology used to build web pages, ran into multiple issues around performance and scalability on Windows Server 2003," he said. "With the introduction of Windows Server 2008 and host technology such as Fast CGI, we are now able to run PHP up to 200 per cent faster than Linux."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hardman said the company has contributed code to PHP libraries for database support, making it easier for PHP developers to connect to Microsoft databases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Linux is open source, but open source is not Linux," Hardman noted. "PHP was designed to make it easy for people to build web pages, not specifically to run only on Linux."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As part of its open-source strategy, the company hosts a website called CodePlex, where Microsoft employees and the developer community work on some 6,000 open-source projects. "Examples of such projects include the AJAX Control Toolkit, SugarCRM, .Net, and code that can interact with the 'World of Warcraft,'" Hardman said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CodePlex includes more than just projects that Microsoft has released, according to Hardman. "It's a hosting platform where people can create and share projects, and we have also used it to share some of our technology to encourage further innovation."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some five million developers worldwide have created various applications using Microsoft platform technologies such as Windows, .Net, Windows Server and Microsoft Xbox, according to the software giant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Different business models&lt;br /&gt;Unlike Red Hat, Microsoft does not have a subscription-based model for open-source solutions. "When we want to share source code, we will share it for free," Hardman said. "For example, if someone took the AJAX Control Toolkit, embedded it into a project and commercialised it, that's fine with us."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's not so much an issue of opening up the source code," Hardman said. "Rather, it's about how to make open-source technology work for the enterprise, without it having to change its existing platform or infrastructure."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, interoperability among solutions, whether open source or not, is very important, Hardman noted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other open-source issues&lt;br /&gt;Enterprises need to consider several other issues when deciding whether to adopt open-source technologies, according to Hardman. Knowledge about the level of support provided by the service provider, such as ready availability of security patches, is crucial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's not enough to only have technical expertise in building the open-source solution," Hardman said. "Business knowledge is also essential to ensure the solution works for the enterprise."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additionally, the open-source provider must be confident that the contributing community can ensure adequate information security. "There must be no weak links in security features," Hardman said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open source and SaaS&lt;br /&gt;According to Gartner's State of Open Source report for 2008, software-as-a-service (SaaS) will eclipse open source as the preferred enterprise IT cost-cutting method by 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report stated that both the open source and SaaS business models price by subscription, operate on low profit margins and can reduce enterprise IT costs. Gartner contends however, that SaaS reduces enterprise requirements for IT technical skills, while open source tends to increase such requirements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gery Messer, president of Red Hat Asia Pacific, disagreed: "Open source does not increase the requirement for IT technical skills within the enterprise."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Messer said Red Hat's subscription model provides enterprises with a predictable cost structure and allows them to outsource IT development and support requirements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Open source is an infrastructure platform on which many enterprise applications run," Messer said. "Its community-based accelerated innovation approach multiplies software development capacity many times over, providing enterprises better, more innovative solutions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Messer agreed however, that like open-source software (OSS), SaaS can also help enterprises, especially small- and medium-sized businesses, cut IT costs.&lt;br /&gt;Defining open source&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"While I agree with Red Hat's general definition of SaaS, I wouldn't agree with their definition of open source," said Brian Prentice, Gartner's research vice president for emerging trends and technologies. "Open source is not just an infrastructure platform, it can be a lot more than that and is."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Prentice, Gartner's definition of open source is software governed under a licence agreement recognised by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). OSI is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting open-source software. "It is the licence agreement, and specifically the rights to modify and redistribute the code, which is the most important component of open source."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a co-author of the Gartner Open Source report, Prentice explained that OSS tends to increase skills requirements because new technologies require new skills in an organisation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If, for example, my organisation uses Windows Server, the addition of Linux, regardless of distribution, would require new skills," Prentice said. "If I am currently using a mix of Oracle 11g and SQL Server, and then introduced MySQL, that needs a new set of skills."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prentice said SaaS tends to avoid this problem because it is "run on someone else's infrastructure".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I concede there is some nuance in this area particularly as we start looking at platform-as-a-service capabilities like Force.com from salesforce.com," he noted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- cio.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3354871025659746122?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3354871025659746122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3354871025659746122' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3354871025659746122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3354871025659746122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/microsoft-not-against-open-source_12.html' title='Microsoft &quot;Not Against&quot; Open Source'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8032309822777919698</id><published>2008-11-08T15:11:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-08T15:19:08.593+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ApacheOfBiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache software foundation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ApacheCon'/><title type='text'>Microsoft Pushes Interoperability at ApacheCon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sam Ramji, Microsoft's open-source point man, promotes the company's efforts in the areas of interoperability and open-source software at the Apache Software Foundation's ApacheCon conference. In a keynote at the event, Ramji discusses various Microsoft interoperability efforts involving partnerships with WSO2, HBase, AMQP and the company's "Oslo" modeling technology.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a keynote at the ApacheCon conference of open-source developers and users, Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft, outlined a series of new moves the software giant has made regarding interoperability as it continues to make nice with the open-source community.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At the Apache Software Foundation's conference in New Orleans on Nov. 7, Ramji spoke of Microsoft's "greater participation and growth with open-source communities, and our strategy of 'architecting for participation,'" Ramji said in a blog post following his keynote.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Microsoft's strategy focuses on four themes: community, contribution, partnerships and choice, Ramji said. “Microsoft believes that the next 10 years of software will be a time of growth and change where both open-source and Microsoft communities will grow together," he added.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Among the many moves Microsoft has made, Ramji noted that the company recently joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group as a participant, with the goal of contributing to the development of the specification and to enable greater customer choice in the marketplace. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And, "at the request of community members, we have now committed to participate in the Apache Qpid project, a widely adopted open-source implementation of the AMQP specification that addresses the customer need for choice and improved messaging interoperability," Ramji said. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"Our customers are telling us that they would like to see the Apache Qpid project extended to interoperate with Windows, so the next few months of participation will be focused on understanding the community's effort to build Windows-based AMQP software. Participation will give us the opportunity to learn from other project participants, so that we can be in a position to consider making a valuable contribution. But it is important to note that the Apache Qpid project is just one of many AMQP specification implementations, and we are open to supporting additional projects."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Alexis Richardson, co-founder of CohesiveFT, told eWEEK: "Microsoft joining means validation of the 'mission' of AMQP to open up, massively grow and fundamentally simplify the AMQP market. What is needed is something that combines the open standard plug-and-go cheap-to-use nature of TCP with the richer features of smarter messaging protocols. There is no standard way to connect systems together. Currently, customers have to choose between expensive lock-in via the IBM monopoly or similar and hand-made systems. Web services are too complicated and general purpose. AMQP business messaging is the way out of this mess. So AMQP is an open Internet protocol for solving this pain, like TCP. Now the biggest software vendor has bought in.” &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ramji also said Microsoft has been working with open-source SOA (service-oriented architecture) infrastructure software provider WSO2 to demonstrate interoperability using Microsoft's StockTrader reference application. "Today, the WSO2 announced they would build an open-source version of the sample application under 'Project Stonehenge,' which is a new Apache incubation project," he said. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Moreover, WSO2 will use the project to set up sample applications that demonstrate seamless interoperability across multiple underlying platform technologies, using currently defined W3C and OASIS standard protocols, Ramji said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ramji said his team has been working closely with that of Jean Paoli, the general manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, whose team is driving much of this interoperability work.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In addition, Ramji said Microsoft has moved the development of protocol parsers for Microsoft Network Monitor—a free protocol analyzer and network sniffer known as "Netmon"—to an open-source model. Microsoft will host the effort on its CodePlex community development site. On CodePlex, Microsoft will host the development of parsers for public protocols and for protocols described in the company's Open Protocol Specifications for Windows, he said. An updated parser package has been released and a source tree created on CodePlex, Ramji said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"We want Netmon to be the best-of-breed tool for network monitoring at Microsoft, not just for Windows," he said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ramji also told the ApacheCon audience that the company's "Oslo" software modeling technology will be included under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. "This will ensure that the 'Oslo' declarative modeling language, code-named 'M,' is interoperable with prominent industry standards such as WS* specifications, X M L formats, industry protocols and security standards," he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source:- eweek.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8032309822777919698?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8032309822777919698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8032309822777919698' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8032309822777919698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8032309822777919698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/microsoft-pushes-interoperability-at.html' title='Microsoft Pushes Interoperability at ApacheCon'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3623443030326286868</id><published>2008-11-08T15:10:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-08T15:11:04.431+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open-source Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source software'/><title type='text'>Open source opens doors for small businesses</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ActiveState and Bryght have helped Vancouver establish its reputation as an open-source software development centre.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vancouver’s growing love affair with open source software (OSS) development is being manifested in a growing community of startups, scores of blogs and monthly events. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The city, which has played a prominent role in the OSS movement, is home to ActiveState and Bryght, the former being one of the first commercial OSS developers; the latter being the first company to use Drupal – a popular OSS – as its sole product development platform. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ActiveState was acquired for US$23 million in 2003 by U.K.-based Sophos, which then sold the company in 2006 for US$2.25 million to Vancouver’s Pender Financial Group Corp. (TSX-V: PDF). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bryght was founded by Boris Mann, a leading OSS advocate who sold the company to Vancouver’s Raincity Studios last November. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;OSS is free, and users don’t need to have programming savvy to develop websites, blogs or web applications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As well, anyone can manipulate and change OSS and then distribute those changes without fear of licence infringement. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   That freedom has allowed OSS users to develop software in step with the ever-changing Internet.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Sharing those changes freely is what makes the whole thing grow,” said Mann who, after selling Bryght, co-founded Vancouver’s Bootup Labs, an incubator to help web startups develop and raise early stage financing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to Gartner Research, 90% of commercial software will, by 2012, contain significant amounts of open source code. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“[Drupal] started out as nothing more than a content management system, [and] evolved from there as more people started using it to become a really flexible system,” said Mann. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mann started a wiki page to compile a list of Drupal-powered websites of B.C.-based organizations, governments, startups, consulting firms, independent consultants and schools. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At press time, the list had reached 50 websites, including citizen journalism site NowPublic.com, Vancity’s changeeverything.ca and the websites of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Georgia Straight. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mann doesn’t use Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint or EMC Corp.’s Documentum – two of the leading proprietary, pay-for-use content management platforms. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“With a lot of content management systems, people used to pay millions of dollars for [them],” said Mann, “and in some cases [people] still get suckered into paying that.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Along with Drupal, the most widely used OSS platforms are Joomla and WordPress, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;According to OSS users, the three platforms combined have enough power to compete – if not outperform – proprietary platforms offered by Microsoft and the other big web developers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“The reality is that if you have Drupal, Joomla and WordPress, you can solve most problems nowadays,” said Rastin Mehr, founder of Rastin Mehr Design Studio Inc. &amp;amp; Associates, a Yaletown-based web application development firm. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“An average small business can now afford to use more advanced technology than some corporations.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;His company was founded on the Joomla platform and is developing a custom OSS platform for content management and for building web-based social media. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“The Internet is becoming social,” said Mehr. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Social anything goes hand in hand with open source.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mehr was an organizer of last June’s Vancouver Joomla! Day – one of many OSS user events that are held in Vancouver each year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“For any healthy open-sourced project, you want to invest in growing the community around it,” said Mehr. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mehr calls OOS events “unconferences,” because there’s no corporate involvement in organizing them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Open source is really the model of the village versus the pyramid – the pyramid being the corporation.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Drupal and Joomla have developed the largest worldwide communities and, as a result, users debate which platform is superior. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mehr said Drupal is ideal for publishers, webmasters and web designers with mid-level programming expertise, whereas Joomla serves inexperienced bloggers and software architects located at opposing ends of the expertise spectrum. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;ActiveState released a report last July to debunk many of the “myths” surrounding OSS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Source:- bivinteractive.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3623443030326286868?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3623443030326286868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3623443030326286868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3623443030326286868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3623443030326286868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-source-opens-doors-for-small.html' title='Open source opens doors for small businesses'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1716073308742184585</id><published>2008-11-07T13:07:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-07T13:11:23.887+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open-source Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><title type='text'>3 Great Apps to Help You Get Your Open Source Groove On</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If the state of the economy has got you down and you're ready to stop throwing money at commercial software vendors, you might be overwhelmed at the amount of open source options that exist. Buck up, IT soldier, here are three applications that let you dip your toes in the pool without jumping in all the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="t"&gt;Mindtouch&lt;/span&gt; - I've &lt;span class="t"&gt;written before&lt;/span&gt; about this dead-simple way to implement a collaborative environment in the workplace. Sure, you can always fall back on sharing files via Google Docs or keep employes connected through an in-house blog, but I don't recommend putting together a piecemeal system and hoping everything works well together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mindtouch is the Swiss Army Knife of collaboration platforms: it neatly blends your email system, customer account databases, and other enterprise apps with Web services like search and social networking -- and it's all open source, which means it can be customized to your companies unique needs. If &lt;span class="t"&gt;Mindtouch works for big businesses&lt;/span&gt; like e-commerce company Bill Me Later and Baxter Healthcare, it's worth finding out what it can do for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="t"&gt;SugarCRM&lt;/span&gt; - There's no shortage of customer relationship management (CRM) software, but even the most robust proprietary vendor offering will have a hard time measuring up to the open source alternative from SugarCRM. It's amazingly customizable, and scales well for both small and large businesses. As DaniWeb's &lt;span class="t"&gt;Edward Correia points out&lt;/span&gt;, there's even a plugin available to integrate SugarCRM with a Gmail account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Oregon Department of Human Services used to manage its community outreach and education communication with sticky notes. CIO Bill Crowell says once the decision was made to try SugarCRM, his tech team had it &lt;span class="t"&gt;downloaded and deployed within 24 hours&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="t"&gt;Hyperic HQ&lt;/span&gt; - All the open source software in the world won't help your company's bottom line if you're company is &lt;i&gt;offline&lt;/i&gt;. Hyperic HQ is a great tool for managing and monitoring your infrastructure. Use it to track metrics for more than 65 technologies across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are &lt;span class="t"&gt;various versions of Hyperic HQ&lt;/span&gt; available, each with its own set of bells and whistles. If you're having trouble envisioning how the app would fit into your workflow, have a look at this terrific post by &lt;span class="t"&gt;Redmonk analyst Michael Coté&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, there are loads more apps you can try, but these three make a great starting point if you don't have a lot of experience with open source software. What apps would you recommend to someone just starting to dabble in enterprise open source apps? Let me know in the comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- daniweb.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1716073308742184585?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1716073308742184585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1716073308742184585' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1716073308742184585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1716073308742184585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/3-great-apps-to-help-you-get-your-open.html' title='3 Great Apps to Help You Get Your Open Source Groove On'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-345180162269255905</id><published>2008-11-07T12:35:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-07T12:41:49.083+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-Commerce Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecommerce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce News'/><title type='text'>Ecommerce Solutions For Online Businesses</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Ecommerce solutions are designed to act as the interface between online businesses and the consumer. By providing a connection with the consumer, the ecommerce application within your website is a fundamental aspect of your online business, and it can really make or break your reputation. Finding the right ecommerce solution for your business is utterly essential, and it must be both easy to use and secure for customers to feel safe handing over their details. With identity theft and credit card fraud on the increase, it is crucial that your ecommerce solution is trustworthy and secure, which can make it quite difficult to find the right one that fits within your budget. Nevertheless, the emphasis should be placed more on the quality, usability and extent of features offered by any given package, and your decision should be based on finding the right application for your precise needs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Ecommerce solutions are available in plentiful supply online, and it can often be a somewhat difficult task to figure which solution actually works best for you. In order to give yourself the best possible chance of selecting an appropriate application, it is important to weigh up and consider exactly what it is you require from your ecommerce application. If you are just starting out in business, or have very basic ecommerce needs, it might be a good idea to opt for an online payment processor. With these online programmes, you can implement code into your website and use free checkout services that could provide exactly what you’re looking for. On the downside, many of these services works as psuedo-banks and it can be quite difficult to resolve issues with them. Additionally, withdrawing money from your online merchant account can be both an expensive and lengthy process; hence the drawbacks of these free online programmes. If you require a basic solution, perhaps for accepting payments from one source for one type of product, one of these free-set up online solutions might be perfect for your needs. If, however, you’re requirements encompass an entire catalogue of products with variable shipping costs, and requiring a multitude of payment options, it is perhaps better to consider a more advanced solution for your website and your business. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Looking for an ecommerce solution for your business can be particularly difficult, given that most providers tend to offer subjective advice in favour of their own solutions. It is important to try to consider exactly what you require, and what you’re looking for, as well as to weigh up the options of each application you consider before committing yourself. Don’t let price guide you as to your selection, because in comparison to quality, price does not reflect what you get for your money. It is more important to find a solution that is fitted to your needs, regardless of price. So long as the ecommerce solution is within your price range, and provides the features that you require for your business, it is best to part with several hundred extra if it means finding the perfect solution for your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Source:- qifenglou.info/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-345180162269255905?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/345180162269255905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=345180162269255905' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/345180162269255905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/345180162269255905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/ecommerce-solutions-for-online.html' title='Ecommerce Solutions For Online Businesses'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7751721939493749731</id><published>2008-11-03T17:17:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-03T17:18:01.402+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Window Server 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft BizTalk server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server 2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Biz Talk 2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server'/><title type='text'>BizTalk gets surprise reprieve</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Microsoft has reversed course on the fate of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;BizTalk Server, re-naming the next version and setting a roadmap that calls for a major releases of the middleware every two years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;The decision to continue developing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;middleware came as a surprise to some, as BizTalk was to be a launching pad for Microsoft's forthcoming "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Oslo" technologies that include messaging (Windows Communications Foundation), workflow (Windows Workflow Foundation) and modeling tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Rob Helm, an analyst with independent analyst firm Directions on Microsoft, says: "It is pretty surprising and I have not seen this big a reversal from Microsoft in a while. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;"They might be reluctant to yank what is now a fairly successful product for an unproven technology platform."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Microsoft says what was supposed to be BizTalk Server 2006 R3 will now be called BizTalk Server 2009. The full release is slated to ship in the first half of next year. In addition, the company says it will provide details on another new version, code-named BizTalk 7, in the early part of next year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;"We will continue to enhance and extend enterprise activity scenarios" in BizTalk, says Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the connected systems division at Microsoft. "We will make it simpler, add new capabilities around [business-to-business], build in our new RFID work and expand it to more general purpose asset-tracking, like tracking laptops or servers in your company, and provide a complete end-to-end asset management view. There will also be enhancements around [business intelligence] and business activity monitoring."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Company officials say Oslo will be discussed further during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October. "We will talk about linking composite applications you build with Oslo to the existing services you may have already built using BizTalk," Kawasaki says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;In essence, Microsoft plans for now not to isolate current BizTalk users, which would have been the case with a wholesale move to Oslo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;"Our commitment is you can use BizTalk today with R2 and 2009 with our Oslo modeling technology without needs to upgrade," Kawasaki says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;BizTalk 2009 will deliver support for platform technologies including Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. Microsoft also has improved failover clustering so BizTalk can be deployed in multi-site clusters that eliminate the need for virtual LANs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Source:- computerworld.co.nz/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7751721939493749731?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7751721939493749731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7751721939493749731' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7751721939493749731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7751721939493749731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/biztalk-gets-surprise-reprieve.html' title='BizTalk gets surprise reprieve'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1409797618552729102</id><published>2008-11-03T16:59:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-03T17:04:36.205+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><title type='text'>Taking Open Source to the Limit: Geeks On The Way Case Study</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Company:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geeks On The Way provides computer services and technical support to customers across western Canada, and it was named as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada by &lt;i&gt;Profit &lt;/i&gt;magazine. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Challenge:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geeks On The Way handles hundreds of client calls per day. So, when the company looked to meet its growing demand for its services with a CRM system, not just any system would do. With such strong technology expertise, the company knew it wanted a system that it could customize to fit its unique business process as well as grow with the system. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Additionally, the CRM system would need to fully automate its existing business process from end-to-end.&lt;br /&gt; "We had already outgrown two previous customer management systems," says Geeks On The Way CEO John Leishman. "So, we needed a flexible system that could grow with our business and really scale." &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Solution:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geeks On The Way was attracted to SugarCRM for various reasons. Since the company had already built out a telephony system on top of an open source phone system, called Asterisk, Geeks On The Way figured that it should look toward open source CRM for its client management needs. "SugarCRM simply had the largest following, the most downloads and provided the most security from a longevity of product development standpoint," Leishman notes, adding that his company felt that the standards-based design and open architecture of SugarCRM would complement the Asterisk implementation well. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; The first task for Geeks On The Way after deploying SugarCRM was to integrate it with its Asterisk system, the popular open source telephony package.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geeks On The Way also integrated Sugar with some back end databases to create efficiencies inside its service delivery model and customized the Meetings module to integrate a system that analyzes the service calls slated for the day. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Results:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;SugarCRM allowed Geeks On The Way to perform deep integrations at the data and application level, according to Leishman. With the integrated system, callers are recognized by their phone number or other identifiers. If a new client is calling, a "new contact screen" pops up to the agent and a tight integration with an external database of address and postal information populates most of the new contact record. This allows agents to process existing customers quickly, and also spend less time adding new customers in to the system. And since customers are well tracked using unique identification numbers, there is less duplication of customer records. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; A deep integration to the accounting system also provided strong returns for Geeks On The Way. Since so much activity and data is tracked and captured in Sugar, Geeks On The Way can simply run that data into its accounting system and more efficiently compensate its employees, which range from phone agents to contractors to field technicians. "Accounting used to take us a full 24 hours every pay period," Leishman notes, "But now it takes five minutes with our Sugar integration to our accounting system." &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Since it deployed Sugar, the company says it has seen lower marketing costs and improved customer support times. "With SugarCRM, we have reduced call handling times from two to three minutes down to as little as 20 seconds," says Leishman. And the company says simply knowing who an agent is talking to through its integrated system fosters closer relationships with customers and increases satisfaction levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- salesandmarketing.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1409797618552729102?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1409797618552729102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1409797618552729102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1409797618552729102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1409797618552729102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/taking-open-source-to-limit-geeks-on.html' title='Taking Open Source to the Limit: Geeks On The Way Case Study'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7480952071011080925</id><published>2008-11-03T16:56:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-03T16:56:34.671+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Engine Optimizer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>SEO long term strategy and lead generation mix</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Is search engine optimization in your long term strategy and lead generation mix?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Any business has two important channels: Production and Marketing, where marketing plays an important role; since many businesses have been cutting off on Production in-house. The business centers all on Marketing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I know of a boy who used to write on communities and photocopy his articles and distribute them to the people residing near by. Then he wrote more and his write-ups took a form of monthly magazine which people started subscribing. And today it is a well-known magazine in different sectors with millions of readers online. When asked for the success, that boy (and the editor today) said: “Strategic Marketing”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today Businesses have Marketing Executives, Marketing Consultants and even big Marketing Departments with 100s of employees working specifically for building up the Company Brand. And today, as we know the Digital is transforming all Media! Websites have become an important tool for Marketing one’s Products and Services. Businesses today – small or big are sure to have a website (or a small online-presence –at least). These websites may vary from 3 to 1000s of pages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But does your Online Business (or your website) really help you marketing your Company? Does your online presence get you leads enough to survive your business? These are some very important questions and your marketing strategies revolve around answering such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search engines play a dominant role in getting you more business. Search engine research takes place at least one to two months before the buying/final decision made by your customer and a research says “Organic SEO gets over 70 percent of the clicks”. In Search Engines, position is a factor: with over 60 percent clicking on the top 3 listings and moreover, most users decide which listing to click on in just seconds upon scanning the page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hence, it is very important to get your website a prime visibility in the Top SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). The most economic and best tool to help your website rise in the organic searches is Search Engine Optimization. Many Businesses go with many strategies and plans like On-Page Optimization of website, Off-page Optimization of website, Link Building, Search Engine Marketing Services, using Social Media to Market Services, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The most important point that lies at the base is Strategy- Strategy of Keywords/phrases, Strategy of the campaigns to be executed - in what substance at what time, Strategy on how to market the services in Social Media, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I have seen Search Engine Optimization working so well with the businesses getting over 1000% increase in their website traffic. I have noted our clients getting rise of over 50% in leads and revenue generation through Search Engine Marketing Services. But this has to be in a very very strategic way as we at Semaphore-software do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We at Semaphore offer Strategic SEO (Website Optimization) accompanied with Strategic Link-building because where Optimized Content is the King in the SEO Market, Link Building is the queen. A Strategic SEO plan definitely helps a business to rise up in the Search Engines; hence getting more traction, more leads and more business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now-days businesses have started understanding the importance of Search Engine Optimization and have SEO as one of the important strategies in their Long Term Marketing Plan. But now arises a million dollar question for you: “Is search engine optimization in your long term strategy and lead generation mix?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:- semaphore-software.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7480952071011080925?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7480952071011080925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7480952071011080925' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7480952071011080925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7480952071011080925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/seo-long-term-strategy-and-lead.html' title='SEO long term strategy and lead generation mix'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1544043929315186224</id><published>2008-10-09T19:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-09T19:47:06.927+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint Server Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharepoint Blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint Development India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MS SharePoint Server'/><title type='text'>Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Manage content and processes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplify compliance efforts and keep business information more secure through a comprehensive set of tools to manage and control electronic content. Streamline the everyday business processes that are a drain on organizational productivity by using electronic forms and out-of-the-box workflow processes that users can initiate, track, and participate in through familiar Microsoft Office applications, e-mail, or Web browsers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  * &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management.&lt;/span&gt; Define customized document management policies to control access rights at a per-item level, specify retention period and expiration actions, and track content through document-auditing settings. Policy integration with familiar client applications makes compliance transparent and easy for employees. Integration with Information Rights Management helps ensure that proprietary and confidential information is better protected even if it is not connected to a server.&lt;br /&gt;  * &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise.&lt;/span&gt; Organizations can store and organize all business documents and content in one central location, and users have a consistent mechanism to navigate and find relevant information. Default repository settings can be modified to add workflow, define retention policies, and add new templates and content types.&lt;br /&gt;  * &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Simplify Web content management.&lt;/span&gt; Provide easy-to-use functionality to create, approve, and publish Web content. Master Pages and Page Layouts provide reusable templates for a consistent look and feel. New functionality enables enterprises to publish content from one area to another (for example, from a collaborative site to a portal), or to cost-effectively manage multilingual delivery of content on multiple intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.&lt;br /&gt;  * &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Extend business processes across the organization.&lt;/span&gt; Forms Services–driven solutions make it possible to more securely and accurately collect information both inside and outside the organization without coding any custom applications. This information can then be integrated easily into line-of-business systems, stored in document libraries, used to start workflow processes, or submitted to Web services, thus avoiding duplicate effort and costly errors resulting from manual data entry.&lt;br /&gt;  * &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Streamline everyday business activities.&lt;/span&gt; Take advantage of workflows to automate and gain more visibility into common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. Integration with familiar Microsoft Office client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers simplifies the user experience. Organizations can easily modify the out-of-the-box processes or define their own processes using familiar Microsoft tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next generation Microsoft Office FrontPage) or Microsoft Visual Studio development system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;source:- office.microsoft.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1544043929315186224?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1544043929315186224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1544043929315186224' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1544043929315186224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1544043929315186224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.html' title='Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3429081107028176298</id><published>2008-10-09T19:33:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-09T19:33:44.656+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft BizTalk server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server 2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft BizTalk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server'/><title type='text'>BizTalk Server 2006 on Vista RTM</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="entry-body"&gt;                               &lt;p&gt;I had earlier blogged about my attempts to get BizTalk Server 2006 working on Vista RC1. I recently downloaded and upgraded to Vista RTM and after getting some other things out of the way, I finally found time to try out installing BizTalk Server 2006 on Vista RTM. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having read in couple of posts about the "Run as Administrator" requirement to run certain software, I decided to run all setup programs and configurations wizards in that mode. Here is how it all went. &lt;/p&gt;                            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                                           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;With Vista, VS 2005 Team Suite and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition all installed and configured properly, I then started with BizTalk Server 2006 Developer edition setup. During setup BizTalk offers to automatically download and install the pre-requisites from the CAB file. Since in my earlier attempt i had used the XP cab file, I decided to use the auto-download option this time to see what happens. The setup program tried to download some cab file. I waited for about 5 mins, but didn't see any activity happening. It didn't report any error nor did it show any progress update.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Deciding not to wait further, I cancelled the setup and restarted again and this time pointed to my pre-downloaded XP specific cab file. I didn't try the Windows2003 specific cab file, since that is a server platform. To keep things simple, I didn't select EDI Adapter, no portal components and no single sign-on features. I did select Business Rules Engine though. The setup proceeded normally and completed without any errors. During setup, it did show a dialog about VS 2005 compatibility issues on Vista, but I select "run program" option and went ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But this much had happened last time also. Post this, I then started the Configuration wizard (with run as administrator). Again without attempting anything fancy, I selected the basic configuration and provided a local user ID/pwd that I had created earlier (and made part of Administrator group) and went ahead. To my delight the configuration also completed successfully and I started feeling more confident about a successful execution this time. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I ran the BizTalk Server Administration tool and was able to navigate to various items without issues. During my last attempt, when trying to access an adapter I had got WMI error. This time, I was able to access all adapters without any errors. Having disabled user access control (UAC) feature already, I then proceeded to pick a sample from SDK and configure it so that I could test a running application. I picked up CBRSample from &lt;installdir&gt;\SDK\Samples\Messaging (no particular reason for using this application) and ran the setup.bat file. &lt;/installdir&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you have been reading my earlier blog, you would know that i had again faced some errors here related to UAC and also WMI. Since I had already disabled UAC, there was no errors for directory creation and the setup.bat file ran successfully. Like setup, I again got a compatibility warning for VS 2005, but again I went ahead with "run program" option. I was almost there. With the application successfully configured and started, I knew that it will work fine this time. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I picked up the sample files provided with the CBRSample and placed them in the IN folder. A small wait (typically required for the receive location to poll again) and the files disappeared. However more wait, but the files never appeared in the output folder. Was something wrong with the setup again !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Via BizTalk Adminstration console, I found out that two service instances in resumable state. So this was still good news. The error stated no active subscription was found and little more investigation showed that the send ports didn't had the filter set. This was pretty simple to resolve and I added the appropriate filter as below. This behavior is also documented in the BizTalk's documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;CBRSample.CountryCode == 100 (for US)&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;CBRSample.CountryCode == 200 (for CAN)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I then resumed the suspended services and the messages were picked up by appropriate send ports and the output files appeared in their respective locations. To ensure that all was well, I picked up another sample from SDK - &lt;installdir&gt;\SDK\Samples\Orchestrations\CallOrchestration and ran setup for this. This again was installed and configured without issues. The sample file from the In folder was picked up and i saw a file in the Out folder as expected. &lt;/installdir&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The only small issue was that this sample didn't create a custom Application in BizTalk and got added to BizTalk Application 1, the default application. I haven't checked all the samples, so not sure which others use or not use the application feature. It would be good if all samples use the new Application feature of BizTalk since it really makes working with the various artifacts related to an application simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;source:- infosysblogs.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3429081107028176298?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3429081107028176298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3429081107028176298' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3429081107028176298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3429081107028176298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/biztalk-server-2006-on-vista-rtm.html' title='BizTalk Server 2006 on Vista RTM'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-232786130271672848</id><published>2008-10-06T19:21:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-06T19:22:10.608+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open-source Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><title type='text'>The spread of Open Source</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; "&gt;Technologies based on the open source platform are increasing in adoption today. Acceptance of open source has spread in varied areas such as web server, collaboration, messaging and virtualization to name a few. In India too, open source is growing rapidly and there are many enthusiasts who are coming out and embracing the technology. In an interview with CIOL,&lt;strong&gt; Santhosh D'Souza, Chief Technologist, Sun Microsystems, India,&lt;/strong&gt; gives an insight on the growing trends of open source, Sun's involvement to promote open source and the latest offerings it has to offer based on the open source platform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(1, 94, 174); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Excerpts of the interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: Is the attitude towards open source maturing rapidly? If yes, how is it taking place?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Santhosh D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; The attitude towards open source is changing, maturing if you will in two ways. There is in India a rapidly growing enthusiasm to participate in open source communities and contribute to open source projects. There is a recognition that work done in communities is not entirely without compensation: one's professional and technical credentials can be honed and established through participation in open source projects. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Besides, there is increasing adoption of technologies based on open source development. Enterprises began with the desktop where proprietary products used for browsing, reading e-mail, sharing file and print services, etc., are replace by open source equivalents. We now have widespread acceptance of open source derived applications in areas like web server, collaboration, messaging, virtualization, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;There is also a gradual change in the notion of how software is paid for. Compensation for the value inherent in an application need not happen at the point of distribution - this is why Sun Microsystems makes available almost our entire software portfolio, free to download and to experiment. The policy allows developers and enterprises to try out thesoftware or build solutions on top of it. When the software is actually deployed in an environment that makes/saves money for the deployer, he/she will want the software to be supported, enhanced, fixed when problems crop up and so on. That is when Sun Microsystems will derive revenue from the use of the software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: "Sun has made a huge commitment to open source software, contributing billions of dollars in developer time, sponsorships and donations, as well as releasing more code under open source licenses than any other organization in the public or private sector." Can you justify this statement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; In addition to participating in and leveraging many industry-wide open source projects, Sun has, uniquely if I might say so, opened fundamental software, hardware and storage technologies to free and open source communities. We believe this era to be that of the Participation Age, with unprecedented global communities contributing to developments around network computing. Our philosophy is therefore to build products through the preferred means of co-production. We believe that volume drives value, and therefore, growing developer communities around our core technologies as well as encouraging our customers to participate in shaping their directions. We continue to deliver products and services derived from these open source projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: Are we seeing acceleration in the application stage due to open source licensing security and maturity?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; The momentum around an application, measured in terms of development enthusiasm and quantum of deployment, is not only determined by it's functionality but also how secure an enterprise and individuals view it to be. Indemnification and Intellectual Property protection are important criteria for enterprises that evaluate open source-based products. The maturity of an OSI approved license can largely be judged by how effectively it protects the rights of the user of products based on that license.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: What is the trend of the Industry today? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; Industries in general have been far more receptive to Open Source than expected. We have technologies like Java, MySQL, VirtualBox, Grid Engine, Open Office and NetBeans showing up in the most unlikely of IT environments as well as in established enterprises. While academia, government and scientific establishments are natural stomping grounds, several financial services, telecommunication, energy and pharmaceutical giants are showing enormous interest in deploying open source derived infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: Is Linux becoming a dominant super side platform out there along with other platforms such as MS Windows?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; While the Linux kernel is one of the most successful open source projects on the planet and a great example of how a community can nurture long term participative development, it is commercial distributions based on the project that are actually installed on systems : most enterprises will never install the Linux kernel on their production systems. The distinction is important because it underlines the continued need for commercial suppliers. A few Linux distributions are certainly viable Operating Systems on x86 platforms for several horizontally scaled and some vertically scaled workloads. These distros compete with Solaris, an OS so feature-rich and cost effective that Marc Andressen (of Netscape and Ning fame) famously described Solaris as a better Linux than Linux itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;A little known fact is that Sun Microsystems is the largest contributor of source code to common GNU/Linux distributions, and is very active in several communities around GNU/Linux. Most of our software portfolio is also available on popular Linux distros, and we certify our x86 platforms for them too. Even our enormously popular UltraSPARC T1, T2 and T2 plus systems, are certified and work with Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: Can you give a little detail on the Sun xVM virtualization portfolio?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; Sun xVM folds in various virtualization technologies and virtual/physical instance management into an open source based, integrated family of technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;The Sun xVM portfolio, a compelling set of internet scale virtualization solutions, provides a new level of choice for companies looking to simplify their IT infrastructure. Sun has combined a unique set of products and technologies to effectively manage both the physical and virtual infrastructure and enable virtualization of everything from the desktop to large-scale datacenters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;The complete xVM products and technologies include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;xVM Server 1.0:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; a pre-configured hypervisor for heterogeneous workload consolidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;xVM Ops Center 2.0:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; a single console management for both physical and virtual environments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; the only desktop solution that offers a choice of Windows, Linux and Solaris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;xVM VirtualBox 2.0:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; VirtualBox is the open and free hypervisor that supports all major operating systems, allowing users a way to run multiple operating systems on the same screen at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;CIOL: What is Sun's role on the Software Freedom Day event?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;D'Souza:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt; Sun is one of the sponsors of Software Freedom Day, a celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). We are hosting around 150 events worldwide, including over 35 in India to raise awareness of FOSS. Sun employees from over 60 countries are expected to participate in events marking the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Sun constituted the Open Source Community Innovation Awards. We will be announcing the winners as part of the celebrations. We also announced a student contest promoting the Open Source MySQL and GlassFish projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Source:- ciol.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-232786130271672848?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/232786130271672848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=232786130271672848' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/232786130271672848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/232786130271672848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/spread-of-open-source.html' title='The spread of Open Source'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-9073982490897210072</id><published>2008-10-06T18:18:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-06T18:22:19.165+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsourcing company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsourcing India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Offshore Outsourcing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsourcing Firms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsourcing Services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsource'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Offshore Outsourcing development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Software Outsourcing India'/><title type='text'>Offshore Outsourcing: What Role Will the Recession Play?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The ongoing credit crisis is a concern for everyone in nearly every industry—fear of lost jobs, foreclosed homes and bankrupt businesses. But those lost jobs are likely to further bolster the booming offshore outsourcing market—so the experts predicted. (Also read How to Save Your Job During a Recession and 10 Secrets for Searching for a Job During a Recession.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fast-forward two months: it's time for them to eat their words. Neither are customers outsourcing more nor is the industry growing any faster. In fact each day service providers only revise their growth estimates in the downward direction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some brave analysts are finally coming out with the truth. Days after Wall Street's collapse, vice-president and principal analyst with US research firm Forrester, John McCarthy, said the scale of the crisis had rendered all previous studies including Forrester's own survey, released earlier this month, redundant, and that Indian IT providers should prepare for slower growth and lower profits. "It is naive to say an economic slowdown is good because cost-cutting will lead to higher offshoring. This is no longer a recession, it is fundamental restructuring of financial services that is taking place," says McCarthy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What the hell happened in these two months?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Multiple factors are at play here—some recent developments and some historic issues that have been building over time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;About 20 percent to 40 percent of the revenues of offshore outsourcing firms are tied to the financial services industry. With its collapse, companies have been forced to look to other vertical markets. In normal circumstances, that should have been enough to offset the revenue erosion. But the problem is, that everyone is in the same boat and those other industries are also impacted by the crisis, fading consumer demand and reduction in spend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For example, the travel vertical has started seeing a rise in ticket cancellations and refunds, which has led service providers like WNS to greater conservatism on revised guidance. Hexaware stated that delayed decision-making is spreading out from BFSI to travel, and it has now reduced its annual growth estimate from 24 percent to 7 or 9 percent. Sasken is now cautious about telecom handset segment as all the top-five handset customers are seeing a slowdown in sales (a u-turn from Sasken's bullish stand on this segment a couple of months ago).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, suddenly all players are chasing a smaller market, in which there was little differentiation amongst players anyway, and it will lead to pricing pressure, reduced profitability and less growth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It will also become difficult to generate new business (unless driven by price), which will result in generic and inefficient players rightfully getting wiped out of the market. Rather than getting upset about it, I think it's an exciting opportunity for service providers to innovate and build their differentiators. Customers, I would say, have never had it so good—they can finally be in the driver's seat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's also difficult to accurately quantify the business value of offshore outsourcing. At a theoretical level, it does make sense. At a headcount level, it also makes sense. But at a business outcome level, the real and hidden costs are often ignored and many companies are left thinking "hey wait a minute, I offshored hundreds of my staff...why isn't my profitability increasing?" And despite share of offshoring rising, why haven't we ever seen a reduction in IT spend? That's because offshore outsourcing has so far focused on headcount as the currency, not the business value generated. That is about to, thankfully, come to an end.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The more I think about the full value chain, the more intrigued, and sometimes scared, I get about the full impact. TCS has reduced its annual hiring estimate by about 30 percent, Wipro already reduced headcount in IT services last quarter, Polaris has resorted to just-in-time hiring, Infosys is visiting fewer campuses...what does it mean for the employment market in offshore outsourcing countries? Will wage inflations ease off? Will attritions finally come to manageable levels? Will being skilled come back in fashion compared to just having an IT diploma/degree? We'll have to wait and see...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is the end of the golden age of offshore outsourcing, but it also heralds a new dawn—the age of truth and rationality. Where offshore outsourcing delivers real, tangible business value, and service providers are focused on making things work for customers in unique and innovative ways.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;source:- cio.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-9073982490897210072?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/9073982490897210072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=9073982490897210072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/9073982490897210072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/9073982490897210072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/offshore-outsourcing-what-role-will.html' title='Offshore Outsourcing: What Role Will the Recession Play?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4331108572559370910</id><published>2008-10-06T16:26:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-06T16:26:43.989+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open-source Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><title type='text'>Opening new doors with Open Source</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_largeColumnContentPlaceHolder_IntroLabel" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;From consumer desktop software to enterprise-wide solutions, Open Source presents a significant opportunity for channel players prepared to stake a claim in this new frontier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_largeColumnContentPlaceHolder_ContentLabel"&gt;If your customers aren’t already asking you about Open Source, they soon will be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religious fervour is taking a back seat as Open Source comes of age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also shaking off the “free’’ tag as more people come to appreciate Open Source is free as in ‘’free speech,’’ not as in “free beer’’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s more to Open Source than just the Firefox browser and Linux operating system. There’s now a viable, business-ready Open Source alternative for practically every piece of software available today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open Source lets the channel build new business models around enhanced support and services, rather than merely lining the pockets of the proprietary software giants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also offers greater control over the underlying stack and allows you to build more tailored solutions to meet clients’ individual needs – thus strengthening the relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Open Source development model operates mostly under the GNU General Public License (GPL).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often referred to as “copy-left’’ as opposed to copyright, software covered by the GNU GPL is available free of charge to the general public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developers have access to the complete source code, making it easier to build customised solutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a programmer modifies software covered by the GNU GPL, then those modifications must also be made freely available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the underlying code may be “free”, the profit for the channel lies in providing integration, training, support and other services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an industry where hardware and even software are becoming commodity items, such services are where the decent margins are to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although some Open Source applications are designed to run on proprietary foundations such as Microsoft’s Windows operating system and SQL Server database, the beauty of using Open Source software is you can build a complete Open Source stack from the bare metal up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gives you complete control over your environment, letting you modify any part of the stack to develop a customised solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vast majority of Open Source applications are designed to run on the LAMP stack of Open Source applications – Linux, Apache, MySQL and the PHP scripting language (see breakout).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A wide range of business-grade applications have been developed on top of this Open Source foundation, such as SugarCRM for customer relationship management, Compiere for enterprise resource planning, OrangeHRM for human relations management and Asterisk to replace the traditional PABX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middleware also gets a look in, with JBoss offering a Java-based Open Source applications platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stack of Open Source applications allows channel players to expand their offerings whilst weaning themselves and their customers off reliance on the proprietary software giants, said Gartner research vice president Brian Prentice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In general, one of the things we see with Open Source is a move away from a software licensing type of structure, towards a service delivery type of structure. This creates opportunities for channel partners to link Open Source into the primary part of their business today, which is service delivery,” Prentice said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The question here is what is the value proposition to the end customer? We see that one of the reasons customers like to buy Open Source is it removes critical dependencies that they have on software suppliers.&lt;br /&gt;Most channel partners should be looking to add some form of Open Source to their kit bag.&lt;br /&gt;It’s a combination of being both an opportunity and a risk mitigation.&lt;br /&gt;If I am a channel partner and I can’t accommodate the Open Source requirements of a customer then that may be a problem.&lt;br /&gt;If I am a web developer and I don’t know how to do anything around Ruby or PHP that could be a problem. If I am focused on middleware and I don’t know anything about JBoss, that could be a problem.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forewarned is forearmed and, like any technological advancement, channel players need to keep abreast of how Open Source is impacting their market space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rise of Open Source is providing the channel with a wide variety of business opportunities, said Red Hat Australia general manager Max McLaren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Hat provides commercial-grade support, service and training for the Red Hat distribution of Linux, as well as JBoss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“With small to medium businesses, there is a lot of demand for Linux implementation and management,” McLaren said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We see lots of opportunities for system integrators and for hosting partners in that space. For the enterprise there is a requirement for organisations to do a reasonable amount of systems integration, especially with third-party applications, and that is where the whole middleware space is providing&lt;br /&gt;a great opportunity for systems integrators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In the middleware space with JBoss we are probably a couple of years behind Linux in terms of maturity. The interesting thing is we are not just an application server in the JBoss space, we move right up through the stack into Service Oriented Architecture space so there is a lot of integration opportunity there for business partners.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open Source vendors such as Red Hat don’t expect the channel to venture into Open Source territory unassisted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Hat Australia offers a three-tier partnership program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Hat Ready partners gain access to Red Hat’s online portal as well as discounts in areas such as training.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Advanced Business Partner program features a Red Hat stream and a JBoss stream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To qualify, channel partners need to commit to a level of business with Red Hat and have a number of skills-certified engineers on staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advanced Business Partners also receive preferential treatment in areas such as sales leads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Hat Australia’s Certified Services Partner program allows channel players to work with Red Hat from a skills transfer perspective in their first engagements, to help them get up and running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While working with Open Source can offer a range of new business opportunities, it can also be a form of risk mitigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike proprietary software foundations, if channel players encounter a bug in the Open Source stack they’re not left at the mercy of one major software vendor, said Shane Owenby, Oracle Asia Pacific’s senior director of Linux and Open Source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Oracle’s offerings run on traditional operating systems such as Windows and Solaris, the software giant also offers customers its own Oracle Enterprise Linux distribution – derived from Red Hat Enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Customers can run Oracle and other applications on Oracle Enterprise Linux, which Oracle supports under its Unbreakable Linux program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Traditionally the Oracle channel has not cared about the operating system, but that is starting to change based on the interest my team is seeing all around Asia Pacific. The channel guys see now that we can provide a full stack solution,” Owenby said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If you are going to go out there and be the average Joe Blow flogger of software or hardware, you’ve got a thousand people to differentiate yourself from. From what I’ve seen, the partners that have been successful in Open Source have developed an angle. When you’re dealing with the flexibility of Open Source software, you can build on a base such as Oracle Enterprise Linux. You can easily add a special device driver or a special configuration for a file system, whatever it is that your customer needs.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Oracle software running on Oracle Enterprise Linux, the channel can now provide, customise and support the entire stack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They can choose between supporting the software themselves, supporting it with Oracle’s backing or letting Oracle handle the support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Channel players offering solutions that run on Windows, for example, are reliant on Microsoft’s support to solve the issue, whereas Open Source platforms allows channel players to turn to a number of sources – making them masters of their own destiny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“While using Unbreakable Linux might broaden support options, one of the other interesting components Oracle offers is something called Premier Back Porting,” Owenby said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Imagine you’ve got a six-month project and three months into it you find a bug in the operating system. The normal solution for all Linux distribution is to upgrade to the latest version. Of course, upgrading to the latest version could introduce a whole new set of problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Our Premier Back Porting program says that if you identify a bug, we will back port the fix to the version you’re using – not just to the latest version. It’s a subtle difference but I am talking to customers and they are just champing at the bit for that. It is exactly what they want as they don’t want to take the 30 changes that come with a new version, they just want the one change they know they need.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Open Source projects may offer free access to the underlying code, software license fees generally only account for a small percentage of a major project’s overall costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money not put into a software giants’ pocket can be invested back into the project, said Obol Software CEO Shannon Roy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obol Software is the developer of Fivedash, a fully featured, general-purpose Open Source accounting program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While anyone can download a free copy of Fivedash, Obol Software makes its money through deployment, customisation and support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If your customers are not already asking about including an Open Source option in a proposal, then it is going to come in the next six months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resellers need to get out there and integrators need to get out there and find out what is available in the Open Source space. They really need to educate themselves because their customers are going to drive it if they don’t,” Roy said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In a financial accounting system rollout there are generally two costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is the cost of the software, which is a license fee usually updated yearly. There is big hit at the start and then a yearly hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there is the set up and customisation, where the software will be modified for your particular usage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally the split of those costs is around about 30/70, with 30 percent for licenses and 70 percent for services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Immediately Open Source gives you an advantage because there are no license fees.&lt;br /&gt;Essentially you can take that 30 percent and put it in your back pocket, using it to develop your business in another way.&lt;br /&gt;Spend a bit more money on the customisation part and, at the end of the day, you’ll have a piece of software that is far more attuned to your customer’s particular business model.&lt;br /&gt;Too many businesses change their business to fit in with what their accounting software wants them to do. We feel that is completely wrong-headed.&lt;br /&gt;People should have the freedom to change their accounting software so it does what they need it to do. It is really hard to do that with proprietary software, but that is what Open Source is really about, making the software do what you need it to do.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another strength of Open Source technologies is their general adherence to open standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Around the world customers are beginning to demand open standards, with government departments in particular mandating open standards as an essential part of any IT project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Particular attention has been paid to Microsoft’s Office document formats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Microsoft’s document formats for Word and Excel have been de facto standards for many years, international concern is growing over such reliance on one vendor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many organisations are concerned about data sovereignty, considering it a business risk to lock their intellectual property away in proprietary formats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such concerns have seen the rise of OpenOffice, a free Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office comprising of a word processor, spreadsheet and database as well as presentation, vector drawing and mathematical function tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OpenOffice has the look and feel of Microsoft Office 2003 and is compatible with its file formats, so staff require little training to make the switch. It is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OpenOffice is a spin-off of StarOffice, a German office suite acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sun released most of the StarOffice code base in 2000, dubbing the project OpenOffice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today Sun stlll sells StarOffice, a corporate version of OpenOffice based on the same code base, plus it also offers paid support for OpenOffice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While OpenOffice is compatible with Microsoft document formats, by default it uses Open Document Format – an open XML-based document format which was adopted as an ISO standard in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The global backlash against Microsoft proprietary formats has seen OpenOffice build a user base as diverse as the French parliament, the Israeli Ministry of Commerce and the Singapore military.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts was the first US state to mandate the use of ODF as the standard format for all state agency documents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The corporate world has been slower in coming to terms with the concept of open source, said OpenOffice’s Australian marketing person Jonathon Coombes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coombes is former secretary of the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group and he also runs Newcastle-based Cybersite Consulting, specialising in Open Source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘’I think OpenOffice is certainly ready for business,’’ Coombes said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘’One of the classic arguments against moving to OpenOffice has been the need to retrain staff, but that becomes null and void if you’re considering upgrading to Office 2007. Microsoft has made some fairly substantial changes to the Office 2007 interface, so everyone will need to learn a new interface regardless.’’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To combat the attraction of OpenOffice and the Open Document Format, Microsoft put forward its own Office Open XML as an ISO format.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The format was accepted under controversial circumstances but appeals have been lodged against the decision. Microsoft has announced the next Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack will offer native ODF support, which is expected in early 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile native Office Open XML support isn’t expected until the next major release of Microsoft Office, which is several years away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advantage of using open standards extends far beyond document formats, said Marc Englaro, general manager of Open Source vendor Fonality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fonality is the developer of the business-grade TrixBox Professsional Range IP PABX solution, based on the Asterisk project, as well as the TrixBox Community Edition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TrixBox’s adherence to open standards lets users choose from a range of certified handsets, rather than lock them in to one vendor, Englaro said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Open Source begets open standards. The community which works around Open Source software is more open to interoperability and I’d say that would be a big difference between ourselves and the likes of Cisco, Avaya and others – where everything is very, very proprietary,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The choice that TrixBox and Open Source offer means you can select from a range of handsets from at least two different vendors for the TrixBox Professional Range and a dozen different vendors for the Community Edition. That choice means you can shop around and people recognise that choice means competition, both from a cost perspective and also a quality perspective.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TrixBox Community Edition incorporates the latest cutting-edge features and can be considered TrixBox’s research and development arm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best features of Trixbox Community Edition are eventually incorporated into TrixBox Professsional Range to create a stable, business-grade PABX system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a common development model amongst Open Source software developers. Fonality has four employees dedicated to the development of Trixbox Community Edition, along with the wider Open Source community, and this offers TrixBox Professsional Range users a clear view of the product roadmap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Open Source is traditionally associated with software, hardware vendors are also leveraging the flexibility of Open Source under the bonnet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OpenGear designs and manufactures enterprise-grade infrastructure management equipment, built on embedded Linux firmware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It counts Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade amongst its biggest customers, along with Australian embassies around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The use of Open Source solutions lets OpenGear offer the channel an enhanced level of interoperability and customisation, said CEO Bob Waldie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Our catchcry is that we are vendor agnostic and we will connect to anything,” Waldie said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We have a Custom Development Kit that we happily give away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We say to people “here you go, go and extend this and modify this – here are all the tools and utilities you need”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This then gives channel partners the flexibility to do customisation to meet a client’s needs, rather than just pushing out someone else’s hardware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We specialise in managing multi-vendor environments, and we can only do that because we use Open Source tools to bring in a new area of expertise without having to develop it all ourselves. The Open Source community is important because it extends your development team way beyond the scope of your in-house team of geeks.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Community is the key for channel players looking to explore the world of Open Source, said Gartner’s Brian Prentice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“To make the most of Open Source you have to get connected into the community,” Prentice said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You have to get onto the appropriate discussion boards and blog sites, you have to see what contributions are being made and think about what contributions you are going to make.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This requires the channel player to reevaluate their position in the greater scheme of things. In the Open Source world they’re becoming a node in a greater network, interconnected with everyone else, whereas in the proprietary world they were a spoke on a wheel and the vendor was the hub. This means in the Open Source world they have to make a commitment to participate in the community. If they are not going to be engaged in the community then their ability to execute effectively and deliver quality service to their customers is going to be hampered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Also, any customer who understands the Open Source world is going to question whether a channel player that isn’t participating in the community can really meet their needs. They’re going to ask serious questions about whether they want to engage with somebody who isn’t tapped into the community.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_largeColumnContentPlaceHolder_ContentLabel"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_largeColumnContentPlaceHolder_ContentLabel"&gt;source:- crn.com.au/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-4331108572559370910?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/4331108572559370910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=4331108572559370910' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4331108572559370910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4331108572559370910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/opening-new-doors-with-open-source.html' title='Opening new doors with Open Source'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5597177153655370555</id><published>2008-10-03T15:03:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-03T15:05:06.644+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open source development news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><title type='text'>Open Source, Can You Afford Not Considering?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of talk recently about alternatives to Microsoft's desktop applications, see my recent posting “Pursuing An Open Desktop, Why Not!” as well as “P&amp;amp;G Flirts with Google Apps and Scares the Bejesus Out of Microsoft” posted by Tom Wailgum on October 1st, “Fighting Government Waste One Google Application At A Time”, and “Cost Savings Found When Microsoft Outlook Ousted for Gmail at British Construction Firm”.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Open Office desktop and Google Apps are only the beginning of  a  readily growing availability of  software alternatives. Compiere's ERP and CRM applications, SugarCRM's relationship management application, OpenWorkbench from Computer Associates, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Openbravo ERP and many other can be found on Wikipedia.  The point is that many of the most sophisticated enterprise applications are now becoming available through an open source provider.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Why is this important?  Let me share a personal experience.  It was June and the Oregon Department of Human Services was going to implement the new HIPAA compliant codes for our Medicaid application in January of the coming year.  This had a significant impact on our health care partners, since they had to modify their systems in order to be able to submit electronic invoices to the State.  If our partners didn't update their systems before January they would have to file paper invoices, which we estimated would increase the States workload by around 60,000 paper invoices per month.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As we investigated the situation, we discovered that a number of different State employees were coordinating communications with various health care providers, there was no central repository of this information and follow up information was being kept on sticky notes.  There was a clear need for a relation management application, but with only six months to get this job done there was no time to go through the traditional procurement process to procure and implement potential solutions such as Siebold or SalesForce.com.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;One of our top system architects came to our rescue when he discovered SugarCRM's application on the Internet and since it was an open source application he was able to download and install it in a single day.  Our customers loved it and since it was an open source application we were able to make some minor modifications (mostly to screen literals) and have it in production within days.  We were also able to download contact information from our mainframes and create a comprehensive partner database.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The bottom line was that when we went live with the HIPAA compliant transactions and code sets almost every electronic filler was ready and there was almost no increase in paper invoice volumes.  While the cost savings were substantial the speed in which we able to meet everyone's needs was the big payoff.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As a CIO you need to be investigating these open source and other alternative software options.  Next posting will discuss what I see as the biggest payoff from the open source development model and that is collaborative development of none strategic applications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source:- advice.cio.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5597177153655370555?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5597177153655370555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5597177153655370555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5597177153655370555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5597177153655370555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/open-source-can-you-afford-not.html' title='Open Source, Can You Afford Not Considering?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-2096001046494170312</id><published>2008-10-03T14:59:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-03T14:59:52.906+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server 2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint Server Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sharepoint Blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sharepoint Development India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Share Point Server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MS SharePoint Server'/><title type='text'>Microsoft SharePoint gets search, file sharing features</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;p class="first" style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Data capture vendor Captaris and security software developer Epok have developed add-ons to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 that let users search on document images and securely extend file creation and sharing across corporate boundaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="first" style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Captaris, best known for its RightFax software for distributing faxes, recently introduced the TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The iFilter takes an image, scans it using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and then stores it in SharePoint along with all its meta data. The resulting file is then available for discovery by SharePoint’s search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;IFilter components are used by Microsoft Indexing Service and other Microsoft Search-based products, such as SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange Full Text Search and SQL Server FTS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Captaris, which is in the process of being acquired by OpenText, thinks paper-centric industries benefit the most from its TIFF iFilter such as insurance, governments, health care and financial services.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The iFilter supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and works on both 32- and 64-bit versions of the Windows OS, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Captaris TIFF iFilter comes in three editions: Standard (for two core systems), Pro (four core systems) and Enterprise (unlimited cores).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Standard is priced starting at $299. Pro starts at $499, and Enterprise pricing will be announced before the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;SharePoint is Microsoft’s fastest growing enterprise software in its history and the company counts 100 million licenses and more than a $1 billion in revenue, according to figures released this summer. The platform also is attracting third-party vendors driven to plug some of the gaps in the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Earlier versions of SharePoint had support for TIFF images, but it was dropped in the 2007 version of SharePoint. Microsoft released a Filter Pack for SharePoint in Dec. 2007, and specifically made apologies for the absence of the TIFF filter in the release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Experts have also said that SharePoint has gaps in its access control story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Epok in particular is attacking that need with an update to its cross-organization access management software called Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4. The platform extends user authentication to a company’s partners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The 2.4 version breaks the restriction that only a user within a SharePoint domain can use Microsoft Office to create, edit, and then save documents directly into SharePoint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Epok extends that capability to any Office user in any domain as long as they have the needed access rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The upgrades also include a reporting system that can show such facts as who has access to a document and when the document expires. And a mouse over feature on user icons shows additional access details and expiration dates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Epok can automatically enforce those expiration data on a user’s access to certain documents while maintaining the user’s overall access rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;“SharePoint is creating a control problem and what we see is a huge demand wave for extranet access,” says Nigel Simmons, vice president of product management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Epok also takes maintenance of permissions for access controls out of the hands of IT and put them in the hands of business users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;In addition, the system can be configured to require users to view and/or acknowledge certain contractual obligations related to data such as non-disclosure agreements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Epok Edition for SharePoint version 2.4 is priced at $25,000 per server.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Source:- networkworld.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-2096001046494170312?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/2096001046494170312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=2096001046494170312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2096001046494170312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2096001046494170312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-sharepoint-gets-search-file.html' title='Microsoft SharePoint gets search, file sharing features'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-663053013512893658</id><published>2008-10-03T14:37:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-03T14:39:57.528+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft BizTalk server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server 2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft BizTalk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BizTalk Server'/><title type='text'>Microsoft Announces BizTalk Server 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Microsoft renames BizTalk Server 2006 R3 to BizTalk Server 2009. The new release will be available in the first half of 2009 and will feature support for Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team System, and the upcoming “Oslo” modeling platform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "&gt;Microsoft announced the renaming of the next version of its BizTalk business process management server as well as detailed what will be in that product and what to expect in future releases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, said Microsoft has renamed what had initially been referred to as BizTalk Server 2006 R3 to BizTalk Server 2009. Microsoft will make the new version of the product available in the first half of 2009, Kawasaki said. Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of BizTalk 2009 to members of its Technology Adoption Program (TAP) members, and the company will deliver a public CTP by the end of the year, he said&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Kawasaki also said BizTalk Server 2009 has new features in three core categories: updated platform support, enterprise connectivity, and developer and team productivity. Microsoft also set a roadmap for BizTalk, including plans to deliver releases every two years at most.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Under the developer and team productivity category, BizTalk Server 2009 delivers new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) support including support for Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS). TFS support enables development teams to leverage the integrated source control, bug tracking, support for team development, Project Server integration and support for automating builds via MSBuild. Microsoft also has made improvements to the Visual Studio based BizTalk project system that enhances debugging support for artifacts such as BizTalk Maps, pipeline components and XLang orchestrations, and enables support for unit testing via Visual Studio Test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Meanwhile updated platform support includes support for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  BizTalk Server 2009 also takes advantage of the latest virtualization improvements included as part of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. And the product also features improved failover clustering, Kawasaki said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Regarding enterprise connectivity, BizTalk Server 2009 has a new Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) 3.0 registry, new line of business adapters for Oracle E-Business Suites and SQL Server, as well as enhanced host systems integration. BizTalk Server 2009 adds a new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) WebSphere MQ channel by providing the transport, data formatter and encoder to integrate directly with WebSphere MQ via WCF and a new WCF Service for Host Applications has been added to expose the traditional Transaction Integrator to .NET Framework developers.  In addition, BizTalk Server 2009 includes updated platform support for the most recent versions of CICS, IMS, CICS HTTP transport, DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database, and WebSphere MQ. BizTalk Server 2009 also features enhanced Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and enhanced Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Moreover, BizTalk Server 2009 features enhanced support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2), updated Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) support, new mobile RFID and device platform management, and new RFID standards support, Microsoft officials said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Meanwhile, Kawasaki said future releases following BizTalk Server 2009 will address enterprise connectivity, enterprise visibility and support for the latest platform technologies. Future releases will feature developer productivity enhancements such as complex mapping, enhanced B2B support, complex trading partner management, expanded industry standards and schemas and low-latency messaging enhancements and ESB guidance. Future releases also will feature enhanced device support, business intelligence and BAM enhancements and will continue to take advantage of the latest advances in the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and Windows Server, Kawasaki said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;In an interview on Microsoft's PressPass site, Oliver Sharp, general manager of Microsoft’s Connected Server team, said, "We’re beginning early planning on BizTalk Server '7' and will have more information to share about the specific scope of that release early next year."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Kawasaki also spoke on BizTalk Server 2009's relationship with Microsoft's yet-to-be-released modeling platform, code named "Oslo." In the PressPass interview, Sharp said: "Many of our BizTalk customers are running mission critical applications; they need choice and flexibility in adopting future technologies such as Oslo; therefore, it’s an important guiding principle to our planning efforts that we preserve our customers existing investments in their BizTalk Server infrastructure. Current BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or BizTalk Server 2009 customers will be able to benefit from Oslo by being able to leverage and compose your services into new composite applications. "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "&gt;Source:- eweek.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-663053013512893658?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/663053013512893658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=663053013512893658' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/663053013512893658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/663053013512893658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-announces-biztalk-server-2009.html' title='Microsoft Announces BizTalk Server 2009'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-6315903792558691151</id><published>2008-10-02T14:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-02T14:20:21.925+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Blog'/><title type='text'>Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;Magento Commerce, an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; open source ecommerce platform, has introduced an Apple iPhone specific theme that is potentially the first step toward leveling the playing field for small online retailers who want to compete in the lucrative and booming mobile ecommerce market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;Mobile eCommerce has massive potential&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Mobile ecommerce (often call m-commerce) is coming; 9 million Americans have already made a purchase from a mobile device, and perhaps half of the United States' 250 million odd mobile handset users are willing to make a purchase in the near future, according to a recent study from The Nielsen Company, New York, N.Y. All of those U.S. users plus the billions of consumers in Asia, Africa, and India, where a mobile handset may serve as phone, mobile TV, and primary point of Internet access, make m-commerce very attractive to e-retailers large and small.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;But mobile browsing experiences can be frustrating for customers, and developing ecommerce websites that are functional, legible, and compelling for mobile device users has been the realm of moneyed and massive e-retailers like Amazon.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The Apple iPhone actually does an excellent job of rendering websites already, but there are still problems. Most online stores are designed to look good on a modern, flat-panel monitor which may be 19 inches in diagonal. While these sites are rendered properly on the iPhone, they take on diminutive dimensions, requiring an iPhone owner to zoom in, zoom out, and scroll in all directions. Bandwidth can also be a problem. iPhones use WiFi connections (802.11n standard), Bluetooth (radio), fast 3G cellular networks, or older and slower cellular networks depending on what sort of connection is available at a given time. Browsing on WiFi or a speedy 3G network might be no problem, but uploading an online store over older cellular networks can be painfully slow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;To address this, Magento developed a special theme or combination of layout, template, and presentation files that are optimized for an iPhone's browser. This theme still offers great looking graphics, full functionality, and the same payment gateways, but in proportions and layouts that make a store attractive and easy to use on an iPhone's palm-sized LCD screen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;Equalizing m-Commerce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Magento's new iPhone theme is an important (if small) step, giving independent e-retailers an easy way to tap m-commerce's amazing potential. Varien, a Los Angeles, Calif.-based ecommerce developer and consultancy, created Magento Commerce and then unleashed the platform, turning it over to a vibrant community of perhaps 400,000 users (store owners and developers), while staying intimately involved in the platform's development and expansion. The new theme makes it easier for iPhone users to browse and shop Magento-powered sites with ease. Basically, Magento utilizes "the iPhone's inherent navigation methods and offer[s] quick catalog browsing, global site search, customer accounts, and a shopping cart with a complete checkout process," Varien said, "The iPhone extension delivers a user experience that supports the iPhone's touch-screen functionality, taking users on a clearly defined path from browsing to purchasing."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;The iPhone is just a Drop in the Bucket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Unfortunately, as awesome, cool, and fantastic as the iPhone may or may not be, it represents a very tiny percentage of the total mobile handset universe. By some estimates, leading mobile phone makers Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson, BlackBerry, and the like, build between 700 million and 1 billion new mobile handsets each year. While something like 8 million to 10 million iPhones have sold worldwide based on Steve Jobs 2008 MacWorld keynote speech and estimates for the iPhone 3G. So the new Magento iPhone theme only scratches the m-commerce surface. On the other hand, what e-retailer wouldn't want to reach as many as 10 million or so potential customers all of whom represent the iPhone's decidedly upscale user base.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;Using the iPhone Theme to gain a Competitive Advantage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;m-Commerce is here to stay, and retailers who implement a mobile solution like Magento's iPhone extension will gain a competitive advantage over other ecommerce sites that are slower to adopt a mobile-specific platform. And there is still hope that Varien or other ecommerce developers will address the mobile mass market soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;“We are looking to expand the capabilities of Magento to target additional mobile browsers in the future, but the iPhone, with its smart usability, market share and passionate audience was a natural place to start,” said Chris Marshall, a Varien spokesman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;source:- practicalecommerce.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-6315903792558691151?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/6315903792558691151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=6315903792558691151' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6315903792558691151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/6315903792558691151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/magentos-iphone-theme-mobile-commerce.html' title='Magento&apos;s iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-2203882253507143200</id><published>2008-10-02T13:45:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-02T13:50:59.761+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft Dynamics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dynamics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>Microsoft Debuts 'Dublin' App Server in .NET 4.0</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Microsoft has announced new application server technology, codenamed “Dublin,” that will surface in Windows Server. The company also announced enhancements to its Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technology. Microsoft’s Dynamics applications will be first to use the new technology, while independent software vendors (ISVs) such as Amberpoint also have pledged to use the new Microsoft technology that will be unveiled at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in late October.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="Article_Date"&gt;&lt;span class="txt"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;As part of its release of the .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft is enhancing its Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation technology as well as delivering new application server capabilities into Windows Server in an offering codenamed "Dublin."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Burley Kawasaki, director of Product Management, Connected Systems Division, said the enhancements were needed because the development of composite applications has become increasingly complex, particularly with the need to build, deploy and manage a variety of Web services. The enhancements to the core .NET technologies include new messaging and REST (Representational State Transfer) capabilities in WCF, new workflow models, seamless integration between WF and WCF to support stateful and conversational services, and a new visual designer, Microsoft officials said. In addition, Kawasaki said “Dublin” will offer greater scalability and easier manageability and provide a standard host for applications that use workflow or communications. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;"WCF is the foundation for our service-oriented investments in .NET," Kawasaki said. "We're adding in pre-built templates inside Visual Studio to make it easier to build REST and Atom and POX [Plain Old XML] extensions and we'll be releasing that on Codeplex [Microsoft’s community development site] at the same time as the PDC [Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, which will be in Los Angeles in late October]."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Also at the PDC, Microsoft will deliver CTPs (Community Technology Previews) of the enhanced and new technology for building composite applications: WCF 4.0, WF 4.0 and "Dublin," Kawasaki said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The WCF REST Starter Kit is an early preview of capabilities that will be shipped with WCF in the .NET Framework 4.0, Microsoft officials said. The Starter Kit provides Visual Studio project and item templates for common RESTful scenarios:  REST Singleton Service, REST Collection Service, Atom Feed Service, Atom Publishing Protocol Service and HTTP Plain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;And in addition to the templates, the Starter Kit will include support and guidance around caching, security and error handling in REST servers and early ideas around a REST client as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;"WCF 4.0 will tighten integration between WCF and WF, with a unified declarative model underneath it with XAML [the Extensible Application Markup Language]," Kawasaki said. "You can now build an entire application in XAML."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Meanwhile, Microsoft has improved the performance and scalability of WF, Kawasaki said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;"Providing a host process for WF applications, as Dublin does, together with the easier-to-use WF 4.0, should go a long way toward making WF a more widely used technology, said David Chappell, principal at Chappell &amp;amp; Associates and a software development expert familiar with Microsoft's plans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Moreover, Kawasaki said part of Microsoft's goal with the new technology is to preserve customers' investment in skills and training in .NET technologies. The enhancements to the Windows Application Server will simplify the deployment, configuration, management and scalability of composite applications while allowing developers to use their existing skills with Visual Studio, the .NET Framework and Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft officials said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Kawasaki also said "Dublin” will be the first Microsoft server product to deliver support for the company's “Oslo” modeling platform. “Dublin” does not require “Oslo” in order to operate and provide benefits of hosting .NET applications; however, administrators will be able to deploy applications from the “Oslo” repository directly to the “Dublin” application server, the company said.  “Dublin” provides model-driven “Oslo” applications with a runtime environment, out of the box.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;"Oslo--which now refers only to the modeling technologies--can be used to define WF-based applications that run in Dublin," Chappell said. "All three of these things [WF, WCF and Dublin] can be used together, which is perhaps why Microsoft originally put them all under the 'Oslo' banner. Still, they can be used separately, and so to me, narrowing the 'Oslo' name to refer just to the modeling technologies is a good thing. It makes the independence of these technologies clearer."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;And Microsoft's internal teams already have begun using Dublin and the enhanced WCF and WF technologies, Kawasaki said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Among the first products that have announced plans to support Dublin is Microsoft Dynamics, Kawasaki said. Microsoft has announced that future versions of both the Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications will leverage both .NET 4.0 and “Dublin.” In particular, the next version of Microsoft Dynamics AX is being specifically designed to take full advantage of the enhanced capability and scale delivered in Windows Server by the enhanced “Dublin” application server technologies, he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Also, Kawasaki said that among third-party ISVs (independent software vendors), line-of-business applications such as Dataract, Eclipsys, Epicor, Red Prairie and Telerik and software infrastructure providers such as Amberpoint, SOA Software, Frends Technology and Global360 have announced plans to leverage the .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” technologies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;source:- eweek.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-2203882253507143200?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/2203882253507143200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=2203882253507143200' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2203882253507143200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2203882253507143200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/microsoft-debuts-dublin-app-server-in.html' title='Microsoft Debuts &apos;Dublin&apos; App Server in .NET 4.0'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4696340272942264981</id><published>2008-10-02T13:39:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-02T13:39:55.711+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM&apos;s Tracker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><title type='text'>The sweet logic behind SugarCRM’s Tracker feature</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;All it took was one new feature to see that SugerCRM has a handle on the future of enterprise business applications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The company this week launched version 5.1 of its flagship open source customer relationship management system. This includes Tracker, which allows IT managers to review who in a company is actually making use of the product, and what specific features they are using most often. This information can be compiled statistically and presented to senior management so that the strategy, or perhaps the training, surrounding the technology can be fine-tuned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;It’s possible there are many other software platforms which have this kind of capability, but no vendor I know of has really bragged about it. Instead, they invest millions in marketing fancy extras to already-functional products that get ignored. A cynic might suggest this happens on purpose, because by not paying to new features users tend to have difficulty adjusting to system upgrades, which leads to more help desk issues, which leads (in many cases) to additional revenue to the vendor through support services.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;If companies really see their employees as “assets,” however, it makes sense to provide the same kind of monitoring that you would to your inventory or the performance of your corporate network. Not only would such information make it easier to evaluate the return on your IT investments, it would possibly provide a useful guide to likely adoption of future applications, whether packaged or custom-built.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Although we’re talking about CRM here, the idea of monitoring usage is really like providing business intelligence about your internal software business. We all have such businesses, whether we are in the banking or grocery sectors. What it may not offer is the necessary analytics. SugerCRM might be able tell you how many salespeople pressed a particular button, but it might be harder to figure out why they bypassed others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;This brings up the question of who should be in charge of looking at this data and acting on it. Although IT would probably be interested, this is an example of where it might make more sense for the business owner of a particular department or process powered by an application – in this case, the director of sales – to take responsibility for studying usage patterns. Of course, in the end, sales people should be spending their time selling, not redesigning software, but only actual users will have the day-to-day understanding of what influences on-the-job behaviours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We tend to say a software deployment is successful if no one complained about it, and provided it functions as it should. Forgotten features, however, can be as debilitating to achieving business objectives as any bugs. I really hope we’ll start to see more features like SugerCRM Tracker. If you’re not actively tracking, you’re losing track.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;source:- blogs.itworldcanada.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-4696340272942264981?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/4696340272942264981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=4696340272942264981' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4696340272942264981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4696340272942264981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/10/sweet-logic-behind-sugarcrms-tracker.html' title='The sweet logic behind SugarCRM’s Tracker feature'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5355039756308935533</id><published>2008-09-26T15:30:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-26T15:32:18.000+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>Does inbound links really helps to come in ranking?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Link&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt; Building&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt; is very famous and most important part of SEO, Search Engine optimization process. All web site owners who want to get top their web sites, pays for SEO to come in top ranking on major search engine ranking page. Many more search engine optimization services provider companies have added Directory Submission and Link Exchange process in their SEO Services menu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Link building and link exchanger is a process which is very famous to get top ranking, here most of website owners are looking for one way link exchange, means get inbound links from other related site, without giving him back links, as some are getting paid links, it’s not as hard as free one way link. But how one way linking is effective is possible for top ranking in search engines? I think all inbound links will not be counted by search engines as back link. Than what is benefits of that link which has not been counted by search engine? Actually I have read many more time on web and specially in forums about one way link or back links from directory submission, but if this is very effective, than why we need to work on other seo activities like forum posting, bookmarking article submission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;source:- semaphore-software.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5355039756308935533?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5355039756308935533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5355039756308935533' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5355039756308935533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5355039756308935533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/does-inbound-links-really-helps-to-come.html' title='Does inbound links really helps to come in ranking?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1111721509844865060</id><published>2008-09-26T15:21:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-26T15:21:54.365+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cutomise Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla components'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla installation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla Extensions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla cms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla accessibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla developers'/><title type='text'>Joomla Content Management System For Your Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What is Joomla! ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Joomla! is an award-winning, web based, Content Management System(CMS) that provides its users with the ability to add, edit and delete content. Content is the meat of a website, everything on the site, from page titles and images to text and placement on the page. It is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the vital data that makes your company run. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site. So what this means to the many non-programmers in the business World, is a freedom. The freedom to modify your website without need of hiring a html developer or web programmer just to update one image or change some text. So what is the catch? well, there really isn't one! Joomla! is open source and is released under the GPL/GNU Licence so that means its free for anyone to use as long as licenses within the code remain intact!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently Joomla powers millions of websites Worldwide, from the United Nations and Porsche Brazil to websites for smaller businesses with more modest design budgets. Joomla offers a versatility in how it can be used and who it can be used by. Of course for more complex jobs of modifying design and your own look and feel upholstery cleaning oakland might need to hire a designer, however this task is made easier because Joomla is so popular. To find qualified web designers who have used Joomla in the past, it is very easy, a simple search on one of the many freelance designer-for-hire websites on the Internet. You can even post your individual project and have designers bid on your project and you can make your selection from the bidders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my experience most people have no trouble understanding the basics necessary to edit content and pages and given that Joomla has such an active and growing community of more than 40,000 users and developers it is quite easy to find information home furniture cleaning Using the simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new news items, manage staff information, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my web design experience I know that with very little configuration, Joomla! does a fantastic job of managing the web content needed to make a business website run. However for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in its ability to be modified with components and modules. There are literally hundreds &amp;amp; hundreds of component addons and plugins that add to the base Joomla website how to clean upholstery framework so that it can be molded into suiting your business processes better. For example, there are extensions to make the website an ecommerce website, to make the website a property management website or a complex download repository.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- corsavoo.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1111721509844865060?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1111721509844865060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1111721509844865060' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1111721509844865060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1111721509844865060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/joomla-content-management-system-for.html' title='Joomla Content Management System For Your Business'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4939676334437816966</id><published>2008-09-26T12:04:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-26T12:11:26.109+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software product development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Product development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Outsource'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='offshore software services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><title type='text'>Global Software Product Development Outsource Provider Opens New Development Centers in the US and Latin America</title><content type='html'>A global software product development services and consultancy provider headquartered in San Diego, California, propelled by strong customer growth has expanded its operations through the addition of three new software development centers. These development centers are located in Quito, Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These sites are in addition to neubloc's existing three development centers in Poland and its headquarters site in San Diego. The new locations are part of the strategy for worldwide development of the company that aims to provide an expanded global presence, ability to handle development in time zones close to the US and the ability to implement "Follow the Sun" development/QA models by combining services in Poland and Latin America. Finally with the opening of the Oklahoma City facility neubloc now has an embedded software development facility that compares favorably to any such center worldwide. &lt;p&gt;This is just one of the most recent steps the company has undertaken to leverage its exponential growth trend, as neubloc has managed to yearly more than double its growth rate, since the date of its establishment. Monthly revenues are up 157% year over year. The company's representatives quote as reasons for this accelerated growth is its focus on software product development (vs IT development), its complete software product development offering from human interface design, development and test and finally the high quality of engineering combined with low attrition that can be sourced in Poland and Latin America. This combination of quality of development services, low employee turnover (critical in software product development), US based design and management and focus on product development make neubloc unique among hybrid onshore/offshore software services suppliers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Although on its earliest growth phase, the Latin American centers will triple its current volume of operations by the end of this year. The new development teams comprise years of experience in bringing high-class software products to the market. The center will absorb various software development projects: development and integration of software products, usability design and implementation and finally ongoing test and maintenance.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;"By opening our new centers in Latin America and the US, we are reinforcing our commitment to offering a full range of product development skills and services," said Armando Viteri, CEO and President of neubloc "The centers are a key component of our global strategy to drive the local development expertise and delivery of leading edge software products and to provide unmatched support to our customers."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Based on its experience of over 6 years in the international software product development market, neubloc addresses clients from various domains, worldwide, especially in markets like the U.S., Canada, Western Europe and in industries such as: media &amp;amp; entertainment, distribution, financial services, education, storage systems, social networking, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source:- neubloc.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-4939676334437816966?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/4939676334437816966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=4939676334437816966' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4939676334437816966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4939676334437816966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/global-software-product-development.html' title='Global Software Product Development Outsource Provider Opens New Development Centers in the US and Latin America'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-201788315159844761</id><published>2008-09-25T17:04:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-25T17:04:30.122+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Internet explorer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Firefox'/><title type='text'>Internet Explorer, Firefox got their users back</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Few days ago, Google Search Engine launched smart, stylish and faster web browser, Google Chrome, and after launch of chrome, many more users had downloaded browser chrome, and started to work with chrome web browser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;As I can definitely say that any seo expert has not used this web browser, coz Google’s own browser chrome, is not able to install Google Tool bar, and also other social bookmarking buttons are not supported for chrome, as chrome programming is same as Mozilla Firefox, nothing extra just difference of color. Google announced that this fast, safe and stylish browser, as it. It’s faster than IE but still as per online survey and communication with web masters and also discussing on some forums regarding Google Chrome popularity, many more web masters told that they had already uninstall chrome from their system and start using Mozilla Firefox as default web browser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Source:- semaphore-software.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-201788315159844761?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/201788315159844761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=201788315159844761' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/201788315159844761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/201788315159844761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/internet-explorer-firefox-got-their.html' title='Internet Explorer, Firefox got their users back'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1772986570008846108</id><published>2008-09-25T15:57:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-25T16:11:42.393+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecoomerce News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-Commerce Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecommerce'/><title type='text'>Microsoft's Latest Ad Buy</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Microsoft  today announced that it is purchasing Rapt, an advertising technology company specializing in sophisticated analytical tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today's is the latest in a frenzied string of acquisitions by Microsoft and other Internet heavyweights looking to expand the reach and technology underlying their online advertising businesses. Most recently, Microsoft purchased YaData, an Israeli company specializing in behavioral targeting technology.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Rapt buy is about helping well-funded Web publishers manage their advertising efforts with premium analytics and campaign planning features. Microsoft will fold Rapt's technology into its Atlas Publisher Suite (APS). Atlas is one of the brands Microsoft acquired through its purchase of aQuantive.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Consistently, Web publishers say that they want to focus on driving ad sales by improving their content and their users' experience, but that is only a small part of the equation, said Scott Howe, general manager of Microsoft's APS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Selling online advertising if you're a publisher is hard, and it's getting more complex as time goes on," Howe said.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Where many publishers need help is in the technical aspects of managing ad sales, such as pricing, forecasting and selling remnant inventory. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Rapt's Yield Advisor product, which Microsoft will begin promoting to publishers as soon as the deal closes, offers predictive tools for sites to plan ad sales around future-looking inventory estimates. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pricing analytics are designed to help sales teams determine the optimal rates to charge advertisers, aimed at minimizing the amount of unsold inventory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft expects the purchase to round out its suite of offerings for publishers.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"As a result of this acquisition, we feel like we have no gaps," Howe told &lt;i&gt;InternetNews.com&lt;/i&gt;. "We can partner with the publisher very narrowly or very broadly."   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The announcement comes just a day after Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced its first ad product following the close of the DoubleClick acquisition -- also a service for publishers to manage their ad inventories and sell remnant space on their sites. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In their latest ad moves, Microsoft and Google are both courting publishers. The principal difference is that Google's Ad Manager, a free, hosted service, is intended for small companies with marginal sales staffs, while Microsoft's acquisition of Rapt is geared for high-end publishers with large content networks and sales staffs. Among Rapt's clients are The New York Times Company, Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo and Microsoft itself. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- internetnews.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1772986570008846108?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1772986570008846108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1772986570008846108' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1772986570008846108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1772986570008846108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsofts-latest-ad-buy.html' title='Microsoft&apos;s Latest Ad Buy'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3152672172450824927</id><published>2008-09-25T15:39:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-25T15:40:07.204+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM&apos;s Tracker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open source customer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><title type='text'>The sweet logic behind SugarCRM’s Tracker feature</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All it took was one new feature to see that SugerCRM  has a handle on the future of enterprise business applications. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The company this week launched version 5.1 of its flagship open source customer relationship management system. This includes Tracker, which allows IT managers to review who in a company is actually making use of the product, and what specific features they are using most often. This information can be compiled statistically and presented to senior management so that the strategy, or perhaps the training, surrounding the technology can be fine-tuned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It’s possible there are many other software platforms which have this kind of capability, but no vendor I know of has really bragged about it. Instead, they invest millions in marketing fancy extras to already-functional products that get ignored. A cynic might suggest this happens on purpose, because by not paying to new features users tend to have difficulty adjusting to system upgrades, which leads to more help desk issues, which leads (in many cases) to additional revenue to the vendor through support services. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If companies really see their employees as “assets,” however, it makes sense to provide the same kind of monitoring that you would to your inventory or the performance of your corporate network. Not only would such information make it easier to evaluate the return on your IT investments, it would possibly provide a useful guide to likely adoption of future applications, whether packaged or custom-built. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Although we’re talking about CRM here, the idea of monitoring usage is really like providing business intelligence about your internal software business. We all have such businesses, whether we are in the banking or grocery sectors. What it may not offer is the necessary analytics. SugerCRM might be able tell you how many salespeople pressed a particular button, but it might be harder to figure out why they bypassed others. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This brings up the question of who should be in charge of looking at this data and acting on it. Although IT would probably be interested, this is an example of where it might make more sense for the business owner of a particular department or process powered by an application – in this case, the director of sales – to take responsibility for studying usage patterns. Of course, in the end, sales people should be spending their time selling, not redesigning software, but only actual users will have the day-to-day understanding of what influences on-the-job behaviours. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We tend to say a software deployment is successful if no one complained about it, and provided it functions as it should. Forgotten features, however, can be as debilitating to achieving business objectives as any bugs. I really hope we’ll start to see more features like SugerCRM Tracker. If you’re not actively tracking, you’re losing track.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;source:- blogs.itworldcanada.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3152672172450824927?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3152672172450824927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3152672172450824927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3152672172450824927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3152672172450824927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-logic-behind-sugarcrms-tracker.html' title='The sweet logic behind SugarCRM’s Tracker feature'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-790042937814641976</id><published>2008-09-24T15:04:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-24T15:05:23.743+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PHP language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Articles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='php development india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Programmer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='php framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hire php programmer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Developer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Programming India'/><title type='text'>Partners Support on VMware vCloud Initiative</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attenda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As ISVs adopt the SaaS model, they are looking to roll out their offerings quickly but with the minimum investment until they have grown their subscriber base,” said Simon Hansford, vice president, products and marketing, Attenda. “Leveraging the VMware vCloud Initiative will allow Attenda new ways of delivering this, whilst allowing our SaaS providers to scale rapidly.&lt;br /&gt;We already find that ISVs adopting SaaS greatly benefit from the increased agility, improved availability and reduce costs that VMware delivers. As a hosting provider leveraging the vCloud initiative, Attenda will be able to offer our ISV clients a far more adaptable resource model that will enable more innovative software products, faster development and the potential for differentiated business models.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;British Telecom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“BT already uses VMware's current ESX technology as a key component of our virtual data centre capability,” said Stefan van Overtveldt, VP Emerging Technology &amp;amp; Innovation, BT Global Services. “It underpins both our internal IT requirements and our external customer journey: Operational Efficiency IT.  BT is working closely with VMware on various initiatives to offer our customers across the globe BT's Service Oriented Infrastructure. This next generation of networked IT services will join together the management of network and compute capacity to achieve integrated service levels. BT's Service Oriented Infrastructure strategy and roadmap is aligned with VMware's vCloud initiative.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CDW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We currently provide Infrastructure as a Service using VMware,” Clint Harder, sales and product development manager, hosting and managed services, CDW.  “Hosted Enterprise Infrastructure is our most in-demand hosted service. The additional of vCloud will let us integrate our Hosted Enterprise Infrastructure into customer VMware infrastructure to provide geographically disperse, high availability application infrastructure. We are very excited about the hosted service opportunities.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Checkpoint&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“The VMware vCloud Initiative will enable customers to have better visibility into how their cloud-based infrastructure is laid out,” said Juliette Sultan, head of global marketing at Check Point Software.  “This knowledge will enable them to better deploy security as part of the cloud.  As the only company that enables organizations to integrate physical network security and security in the cloud, Check Point sees the opportunity to help customers move into cloud computing securely and more easily.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cincinnati Bell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“VMware vCloud has enabled CBTS to build Virtual Data Center our next generation of computing services,” said Dave Heimbach, vice president, product development, Cincinnati Bell.  “vCloud enables us to deliver an architecture that brings enterprise class, secure and flexible cloud services, from simple to complex. The vCloud platform allows us to scale our service offerings from providing the virtual infrastructure to run applications to redundant disaster recovery sites.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cisco&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Cloud computing is creating new and innovative solutions to meet the demanding computing, storage and IP resource needs of applications,” said Ed Bugnion, vice president and chief technology officer for Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit for Cisco.  “Cloud initiatives, like VMware’s vCloud Initiative, supported with the power and intelligence of the Cisco network platform will make it easier for companies to leverage both public and private cloud services, that offer highly secure, cost effective off-load and disaster recovery processing capabilities.  This enables rapid deployment of new virtual machines with the appropriate security, network and application policies and more importantly, transfers those policies as virtual machine workloads migrate within private clouds and between clouds.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DELL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dell supports the vCloud Initiative as it makes it easier for enterprises and service providers to implement and provide cloud computing services," said Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager, of Data Center Solutions at Dell.  "Dell helps power the world's clouds by offering customized hardware solutions and management services and we see vCloud as a key to enabling more customers to adopt cloud computing." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elastra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The first step, and the first challenge, in building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure has always been the effort involved in consolidating hardware, network, and storage resources,” said Kirill Sheynkman, president &amp;amp; CEO of Elastra Corporation.  “The vCloud Initiative from VMware makes these challenges significantly less daunting.  Now, ISPs and IT organizations can focus on the architectural challenges of designing application systems instead of scripting their installations and can have a choice of where these systems are easily deployed -- principles that have always been driving Elastra’s technology vision.  We look forward to a productive relationship with VMware as our product suite, which already supports VMware ESX deployments, fully embraces and supports the deployment of Elastra Cloud Server designs onto the vCloud platform.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“EMC fully supports VMware’s vCloud Initiative as we see virtualization playing a key role in this important and evolving market,” said Jeff Nick, CTO and senior vice president, EMC. “Together with VMware’s technologies, EMC can draw on its broad solutions portfolio and experience in replication, business continuity, virtualization, security and software-as-a-service to enable IT resource mobility, flexibility and end-to-end security in the cloud. These capabilities offer powerful business value for enterprises to provide transparent mobility of information and applications into and out of the cloud back to their own data center when business needs arise.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EngineYar&lt;/strong&gt;d&lt;br /&gt;"Since 2006, Engine Yard has provided a leading software stack for serving enterprise-level Ruby &amp;amp; Rails applications. By porting our stack to vCloud, we're offering customers a compelling new option for deploying their applications across many different forms of infrastructure." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"vCloud promises a uniquely flexible enabling technology that opens up the door to cloud computing for enterprises of all sizes,” said Erik Giesa, vice president, product management, at F5. “F5 enables vCloud users to transition their application traffic to and from vCloud service providers whenever needed, instantly, seamlessly and without performance impact. F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) product achieves this by checking the health of the new site before routing any traffic and continuously monitoring performance over time with specific checks for enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Exchange. And, whenever multiple data centers are involved, GTM ensures the best possible performance by directing application traffic from each unique end-user to the most appropriate data center based on geographic proximity, quality of service or business criteria.”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fujitsu-Siemens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The VMware vCloud Initiative together with a broad range of our solutions and services enable customers to take advantage of ad hoc services provisioning in a most flexible way and to focus on their business without worrying about capacities or management of these highly complex infrastructures,” said Dr. Joseph Reger, CTO, Fujitsu Siemens Computers “VMware vCloud perfectly fits into our future directions of Dynamic Datacenter.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosting.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“VMware, through their vCloud Initiative will revolutionize the hosting industry just as the virtual private server did in the early 2000s,” said Darren King, CEO of Hosting.com.  “VMware’s Infrastructure allows Hosting.com to provide a secure, scalable utility solution – CloudNine – to provision, support and consult with clients at a level previously unavailable in the hosting industry.  VMware and the vCloud ecosystem enable our CloudNine solution to seamlessly provide disaster recovery, shared storage and utility computing to both Enterprise and SMB clients in a cost-effective model.”    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INSIGHT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As the first U.S. VMware aggregator in the enhanced VMware Service Provider Program, Insight can now offer enterprise-ready VMware vCloud services to our hosting clients using VMware market leading technology,” said David Casillo, senior vice president of strategic partnerships &amp;amp; marketing at Insight. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;”For Enterprises IT and Cloud Computing providers who need to bridge the gap between business demands and current capacity, or connect with a broad partner ecosystem to easily integrate cloud computing services into existing IT infrastructures, the Intel VT enabled family of products, combined with VMware VI, is the foundational platform that provides the performance, reliability and scalability that enables the delivery of new virtualization 2.0 based services such as Infrastructure Aggregation, Resource Elasticity, and High Availability,” said Diane Bryant, CIO, Intel Corporation &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As a VSPP partner for many years, INX, Inc. has leveraged not only the VMware Infrastructure virtualization platform to host disaster recovery services, but also offers convenience to customers by delivering virtual appliances on demand,” said Steve Kaplan, vice president, data center virtualization practice, INX, Inc.  “We’re excited about how the VMware vCloud Initiative will continue to drive on and off premise application support, while extending our ability to bring new services to our customers.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joyent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“At Joyent, we believe the future of cloud computing is enabling customers to maximize their own on-premise clouds while taking advantage of off-premise clouds when needed and as required. This principle of federation is fully supported by Joyent using VMware’s vCloud offerings,” said David Young, founder and CEO of Joyent. “Joyent is now able to offer enterprise customers the future of cloud computing today.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We at NEC welcome the foundation of the VMware vCloud Initiative,” said Takayuki Okada, associate senior vice president, NEC Corporation.  “Cloud computing has high expectations as next generation system and service infrastructure. We are sure that the VMware vCloud Initiative will mark a turning point of cloud computing for further disseminating. NEC offers cloud computing environments by delivery of comprehensive products and services from hardware such as servers and storage, middleware and system integration technology for SOA, and service providing infrastructure such as SaaS and PaaS.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NetApp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"NetApp is a leader in the market today in delivering critical storage capabilities needed to build scalable and cost-effective cloud infrastructures," said Rich Clifton, senior vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Grid Infrastructures Business Units, NetApp. "These include virtual storage volumes, rapid provisioning, deduplication, Ethernet storage fabrics, and scale-out architectures.  Additionally, NetApp provides the data protection features to ensure data integrity, recoverability, and isolation within a shared infrastructure. We're excited to partner with VMware in driving the vCloud initiative." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NewLease&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Our Hosting Partners can now offer enterprise-ready cloud services due to VMware,” said Dawn Edmonds, chief operating officer, NewLease Pty Ltd “NewLease is Australia's leading provider of licensing and licensing support for hosters and managed services providers.  The addition of VMware to our offerings means that our hosting/managed services partners can deliver highly reliable services to their customers from a centrally managed infrastructure.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rackspace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Rackspace works closely with VMware on many fronts and we believe that VMware’s vCloud framework fits our vision for the next generation of enterprise cloud-based services” said Emil Sayegh, vice president of product group at Rackspace Hosting. “Our current VMware-based offerings will allow corporations to extend the boundaries of their datacenter, and take advantage of external computing resources seamlessly. The combination of Rackspace and VMware can empower users to run their enterprise applications at the location that best meets their business needs.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Radware&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Our solution for optimizing the virtual environment enables enterprise, service provider, and SMB customers alike to take full advantage of the multiple benefits that VMware’s vCloud offers – specifically, our solution enables transparent migration, without any code change, to an external cloud for mission critical applications as well as SLA assurance for applications deployed in the cloud,” stated Ilan Kinreich, chief operating officer, Radware. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RightScale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"RightScale strongly supports VMware's vCloud Initiative and its capability to provide a common set of cloud infrastructure services from enterprises to public clouds,” said Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale.  “We will continue to work with VMware to leverage vCloud's elastic scalability and dynamic provisioning within RightScale's cloud management platform to deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance cloud applications." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAVVIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Utility computing was the forerunner for what evolved into the enterprise cloud computing solutions we are seeing today,” said Bryan Doerr, CTO, SAVVIS, Inc.  SAVVIS pioneered a virtualized IT services delivery platform and now offers VMware-based virtualized services.  “As enterprises design new systems they will need to optimize security, performance, and reliability attributes along with the scalability of cloud solutions to meet a range of enterprise requirements.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Siemens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Our partnership and leverage of VMware technologies such as vCloud allows us to deliver a global compute platform that offers our internal and external customers access to business services regardless of location or device,” said Michael Kollar, chief architect, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. “This platform is based on a tiered service model that dynamically scales compute resources to meet customer and business needs.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SkyTap&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“vCloud will give our customers even more control of VMware infrastructure in the Skytap cloud through standard APIs and seamless transition of virtual machines between onsite and cloud environments,” said Scott Roza, CEO, Skytap, Inc. “Utilizing Skytap’s ‘hybrid’ cloud computing model with vCloud has tremendous potential to improve IT’s responsiveness to the business while increasing efficiencies and lowering cost.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SugarCRM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“SugarCRM is pleased to be working with VMware on its vCloud Initiative,” said Paul Oh, vice president of technology alliances, SugarCRM “The VMware vCloud Initiative advances SugarCRM’s vision of unlocking Customer Relationship Management (CRM) from the chokepoints of proprietary SaaS vendors and moving application services to a shared cloud infrastructure. vCloud is a win for web-based computing, open standards and, most importantly, for customers.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SunGard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“SunGard is excited to be a part of VMware’s vCloud initiative. New business needs will arise to support end-to-end availability as organizations embrace cloud-based models,” Frank Casey, vice president, product strategy, SunGard Availability Services. “SunGard's expertise and capabilities will enable clients as they leverage cloud solutions while helping to ensure Information Availability.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sun Microsystems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The combination of vCloud and Sun Microsystem's x64 servers creates a powerful, energy-efficient foundation for delivering cloud services," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems.  "Sun's x64 systems and software give customers the performance, reliability, flexibility and massive scaling required for a broad range of applications in a cloud computing environment." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terremark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Terremark's Enterprise Cloud platform supports the VMware vCloud Initiative to serve customers with the agility, scalability and performance required for their applications and their businesses,” said Randy Rowland, senior vice president of product development, Terremark. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third Brigade&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Moving ‘into the cloud’ removes physical computing limitations, but it also bypasses the policy protection provided by your network security perimeter,” said Bill McGee, vice president, products and services, Third Brigade. "Third Brigade host intrusion defense enables you to re-establish consistent security policy on internal and external cloud resources. Integrating with VirtualCenter, VMsafe APIs and the new vCloud platform, Third Brigade's cloud-ready security offerings make it possible to apply location-aware security policy to virtual machines." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T-Systems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As a global provider of converged IT and telecommunication (ICT) services, we at T-Systems continue to leverage industry-leading products and technologies from VMware in order to provide flexible, high-quality utility and cloud computing enterprise application services for our business customers,” said Dr. Gregory O. Smith, vice president technical deal solution design, T-Systems North America. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verizon Business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The launch of VMware vCloud will further enable our customers to take advantage of cloud computing,” said Chris Gesell, director of IT Solutions product marketing of Verizon Business.  “Through our expansive global IP network, worldwide data center footprint and rich skill set, Verizon Business is uniquely positioned to help customers harness the power of cloud computing, which will make their infrastructure more efficient and agile.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WorkStream&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“Workstream SaaS Talent Management Suite is enabled through the vCloud, providing highly available web services on demand in Workstream's Version 7 SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) across a diverse technology platform,” said Michael Gioja, CIO of WorkStream.&lt;br /&gt;“VMware templates and snapshots enable reliable and consistently provisioned multiple environments for development, client configuration, user acceptance testing and production usage while maintaining the expected R&amp;amp;D advantages such as single code line, multi or single tenant applications.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;source:- vmware.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-790042937814641976?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/790042937814641976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=790042937814641976' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/790042937814641976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/790042937814641976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/partners-support-on-vmware-vcloud.html' title='Partners Support on VMware vCloud Initiative'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1656676935156506902</id><published>2008-09-24T12:24:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-24T12:24:41.304+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share point server'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open Source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Operating system'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google Apps'/><title type='text'>Google Apps tops 1 million businesses</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;Google is well known as a one-trick pony.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Almost all of the company's revenue comes from its search engine, which last quarter accounted for more than $5 billion. New initiatives, such as the Chrome browser, Google Gears, and Google Friend Connect, are focused on building a mostly open-source Internet operating system out of Google technology in order to funnel more user data and targeted advertising opportunities into the Googleplex financial engine. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; It's easy to draw parallels to Microsoft, which gradually built the dominant 20th century operating system and applications platform. Bill Gates and company realized that attracting developers to the Windows platform was key. Google is following that advice with its open-source projects and allowing its mad scientists to try to remake the early 21st century software world and take on Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Microsoft has led the way with productivity software, gaining a more than 90 percent share of market with Microsoft Office. Google is hoping to replicate Microsoft's office suite success with Google Apps. It's far less feature-rich than Microsoft Office, but Google Apps Premier edition is far cheaper at $50 per user per year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For some companies, Google Apps is "good enough," and its cloud-based, collaborative core is an advantage--no Microsoft SharePoint server required. Even with a few enterprise wins, Google Apps is a puny business. According to a &lt;i&gt;Fortune&lt;/i&gt; article, Google brought in about $4 million with its Google Apps business in 2007, compared with $12.2 billion for Microsoft Office. Google Apps is a profitable business, according to Matthew Glotzbach, enterprise product management director at Google. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Since early this year Google has been touting 500,000 active business customers, primarily small businesses, using at least one of the Google Apps, and more than 10 million active users. In addition, thousands of universities, with more than one million active users, are using Google Apps, the company said. So far, Google's biggest wins are Valeo, a leading automotive suppliers, with 32,000 users, and the District of Columbia, with 38,000 employees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;However, the vast majority of Google Apps users are not paying customers. The company maintains that "hundreds of thousands" of users are paying the $50 annual fee. The $50 per-user-per-year Premier Edition offers several features lacking in the free Standard Edition, including Postini messaging security, APIs for integrating Google Apps with IT infrastructure, 24x7 support, 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for e-mail, Google Video and 25GB of storage per account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt; At this point, Google is underplaying the number of Google Apps business customers. The company has been saying that it is adding 3,000 businesses a day, which amounts to over 1 million per year. The reality today is that Google has more than a million Apps business customers. In addition, the Apps suite continues to fill out, most recently with Google Video. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It took Microsoft years to build a base of applications and developer ecosystem for Windows and Office. Google faces the same uphill climb for Apps and its fledgling Web operating system. The company hopes to ride on the backs of the younger generation that has grown up on the Web and identify with the Google brand. As the Google generation moves into positions of purchase authority within businesses, Google is betting that those decision makers will shun Microsoft, especially as Apps product features improve. Of course, the resilient and relentless Microsoft will respond to Google's challenge when it is more than a $4 million or even $20 million blip.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;source:- news.cnet.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1656676935156506902?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1656676935156506902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1656676935156506902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1656676935156506902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1656676935156506902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-apps-tops-1-million-businesses.html' title='Google Apps tops 1 million businesses'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8490214906004315922</id><published>2008-09-24T11:31:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-24T11:41:25.177+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache OFBiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache software foundation'/><title type='text'>The Apache Software Foundation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Latest News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to keep up with news and announcements from the foundation and all its projects, you can subscribe to the Apache Announcements List.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans - Registration Now Open!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ApacheCon US 2008 will be held 3-7 November in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference schedule  has been published and the days for the early bird prices  are already counting down. This year's US conference promises to be a special one with a number of new activities and events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year ApacheCon features: over a dozen training workshops and over 60 presentations, the new BarCamp Apache, the co-located OFBiz Symposium, Camp Hadoop, the Fast Feather Track, funny Lightning Talks, exiting Keynote sessions, the Hackathon for ASF contributors, and much more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Apache Software Foundation welcomes Microsoft as a Platinum Sponsor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At OSCON, Microsoft announced their Sponsorship of The Apache Software Foundation, joining Google and Yahoo! at Platinum level. The generous contributions by Sponsoring organizations and individuals help offset the day-to-day operating expenses to advance the work of The ASF.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Apache Software Foundation's "Apache Way" continues to gain momentum, recognition and influence on the future of open source technologies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) – stewards, incubators, and developers of leading Open Source projects – today announced that both the organization's community and its meritocratic process (known as "the Apache Way") continues to gain recognition as one of the most influential, prominent and innovative leaders in Open Source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A midyear review of the initiatives underway at the all-volunteer Foundation showed that not only does the Apache HTTP Server continue to be the world's most popular Web server software, but numerous ASF Projects lead the way in Open Source technology, and the ASF community is also playing a vital role in championing the collaborative development of consensus-driven, enterprise-grade solutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Free Video Streams from ApacheCon Europe 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ApacheCon Europe 2008 held in Amsterdam was a great success, and attracted higher than ever attendance figures, with about 500 registered attendees. This figure represents an increase of more than 40% over the previous year, demonstrating the rapidly growing interest in Apache and Open Source software amongst European businesses. If you have not been able to attend ApacheCon Europe, you can still watch videos of all keynotes and select talks online. Keynote sessions and the opening plenary are available free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- apache.org/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8490214906004315922?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8490214906004315922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8490214906004315922' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8490214906004315922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8490214906004315922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/apache-software-foundation.html' title='The Apache Software Foundation'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1281983073124921994</id><published>2008-09-23T14:01:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-23T14:02:41.401+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress Developer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress suport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress implementation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress Templates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wordpress customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WordPress Magazine Themes'/><title type='text'>WordPress Under Fire for Search-Engine Spamming</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the most popular Weblog-publishing tools, WordPress, is stirring a controversy over search-engine gaming because it included thousands of articles related to popular search terms on its Web site while largely hiding them from site visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloggers and search-engine marketers are accusing the open-source WordPress project of spamming the major search engines, while at the same time being one of the advocates in an effort to combat comment spam in blog postings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discovery emerged late Wednesday when the blog Waxy.org revealed that thousands of articles about such popular search terms as asbestos, mortgages and debt consolidation appear on sections of the WordPress.org site while being hidden from visitors to the site's home page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;News of the search-engine gaming technique spread quickly on the Web. As of Wednesday evening, search results to WordPress.org pages with the articles began disappearing from Google's Web index. Yahoo Inc. followed suit Thursday, removing the WordPress.org pages from its index because of what a spokesman confirmed was "noncompliance to our content guidelines."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google officials declined to comment on why WordPress.org pages had dropped from the company's index, but its Webmaster policies bar techniques that display different content to its crawler than to site visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article pages were still appearing in results on MSN's search engine as of Thursday afternoon, though WordPress appeared to have removed them from its site. Links to the articles returned a "page not found" error, though a cached version still showed the articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WordPress is one of the blog-publishing tools supporting "no follow," an HTML tag that Google, Yahoo and MSN are beginning to recognize in order to ignore hyperlinks included in the comment sections of blogs. Search spammers often insert such links into blogs in an attempt to gain higher search rankings for their sites since search engines consider link popularity in determining a site's ranking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is a big deal given the fact that they're supposed to be combating search spam, and [instead] they are generating it," said Danny Sullivan, a search-engine expert and editor of Search Engine Watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lead developer of WordPress who oversees the Web site, was unavailable for comment on the controversy. According to his blog, he is on vacation. But in a support forum on WordPress.org, he previously acknowledged that the site was hosting articles and Google AdSense ads from a third party in exchange for a flat fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AdSense is the name of Google's program for syndicating ads to content partners. In the ad model, advertisers bid on keywords in an auction and pay based on the number of clicks on their sponsored listings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm not sure if we're going to continue it much longer, but we're committed to this month at least," Mullenweg wrote in a posting dated March 24.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It was basically an experiment. However, around the beginning of February, donations were going down as expenses were ramping up, so it seemed like a good way to cover everything."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an open-source blog-publishing tool, WordPress is supported largely through donations from users and supporters. The project, which celebrated 100,000 downloads of WordPress 1.5 earlier this month, also has begun researching the creation of a foundation to support and operate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonas Luster, a WordPress user who is leading the foundation effort, said he agrees that Mullenweg made a mistake in using the articles as a way of generating revenue for the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Matt [Mullenweg] was and is trying to do right by the community," Luster said. "Has he chosen the right way? I'm not happy about it either. [But] we're all entitled to make one or two mistakes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luster said he expects to discuss the search-engine gaming issue with Mullenweg and to try to rectify any ill will in the WordPress community about it. He also cautioned against calling the technique "spam," saying that while he opposes the attempt to game search engines, it is not the same as filling e-mail inboxes or blog comment sections with unwanted messages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the articles on WordPress.org discussed legitimate topics, they appeared to have little to do with blogging or with WordPress as an open-source project, Sullivan said. More troubling, he said, is the fact that the home page of WordPress.org contains links to the articles that are viewable to the search-engine crawler but do not display in modern Web browsers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The articles may be perfectly fine, but why are you carrying them?" Sullivan asked of WordPress. "You do not intend for people to find them from the home page, and that's the thing that makes this stand out."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least in Google, WordPress.org carries a high rank because it is a site widely linked to by bloggers using the tool, search-engine experts said. By showing search crawlers' links to content for terms such as "mortgages," "asbestos" and "debt consolidation," WordPress also can help boost the relevancy of its article pages for those terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, in one example viewed by eWEEK.com, WordPress article pages appeared as the 26th and 29th top results in a Yahoo search for "pet insurance" before Yahoo stopped displaying WordPress article results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the targeted terms also are associated with Google AdSense ads that carry high prices for clicks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is documented that [WordPress.org] was targeting keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes and mortgages," said Barry Schwartz, president of RustyBrick Inc., a Web development and search optimization company. "Those keywords are known to cost up to $100 per click."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schwartz, who wrote about the issue in his Search Engine Roundtable blog, said he considers the tactics used on the WordPress site to be search spam. Sites fighting for top search-engine positions in areas such as online gambling and pornography often use similar techniques, though most would hide home-page links using less obvious approaches, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the impact of the search-gaming controversy on the larger WordPress community, Luster made a distinction between the WordPress.org Web site and the project developer and blogs using the WordPress software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"WordPress.org is a site that is maintained by Matt [Mullenweg] and not the WordPress community," he said. "Just because one thing happened [there] doesn't mean the tool or developers or the community has lost credibility."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- pcmag.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1281983073124921994?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1281983073124921994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1281983073124921994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1281983073124921994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1281983073124921994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/wordpress-under-fire-for-search-engine.html' title='WordPress Under Fire for Search-Engine Spamming'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-465718727576428096</id><published>2008-09-23T13:32:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-23T13:39:22.901+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Project-planning application'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><title type='text'>SugarCRM launches project-planning application</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Which integrates project planning into core customer relationship management applications. A key feature is Sugar Projects, which gives users a 360-degree view of a project along with shared files, notes and benchmarks, and allows collaboration between Internet users and customers. Also included is the ability to produce grids, templates and charts of projects. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The news follows the recent announcement that the company was opening an office in Ireland, its first office outside the U.S.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;SugarCRM did not release details of exact pricing, but--as with all SugarCRM applications--a free version of the software is also available. Advanced editions of the software are available, and the company offers these with an on-site license as an application server or as an on-demand service. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A key advantage for users, said SugarCRM Chief Executive John Roberts, is that SugarCRM does not have "the extreme sales and marketing of the other CRM vendors." As a result, "R&amp;amp;D is a very large proportion of our budget," he said. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Roberts added that, though the software is not open-source, it carries all the advantages for the user of open source. "There is no lock-in," he said. "For the other suppliers, it's all about how can I lock you in to a proprietary on-demand or proprietary software sale." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So far, the company has 200 customers in Europe, and has provided 1.5 million downloads of its core software worldwide. Most of the downloads have been the free version of the software, Roberts said, but a growing number of companies are now taking the subscription version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;source:- zdnetasia.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-465718727576428096?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/465718727576428096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=465718727576428096' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/465718727576428096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/465718727576428096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/sugarcrm-launches-project-planning.html' title='SugarCRM launches project-planning application'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8861099048159454068</id><published>2008-09-23T13:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-23T13:31:01.038+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM Solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SugarCRM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CRM'/><title type='text'>SugarCRM Expands European Reach With Dublin Office</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pushing into Europe is a smart move for SugarCRM, Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of Nucleus Research, told CRM Buyer. "There's still a lot of opportunity in the CRM market in Europe, particularly for low-cost flexible solutions that can be easily integrated with other applications."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, is expanding its reach to Europe -- an essential step for any small, high growth software company more than a few years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company is opening its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Company cofounder Clint Oram will be the general manager of Sugar Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Europe's Importance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The establishment of Sugar Europe signifies the importance of Europe as a key driver in the success of our commercial open source model," Oram stated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Our strong partner base throughout Europe, the advanced multilingual capabilities of our application, and the embrace of open source by European governments and businesses has pulled us quickly into the European markets," he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides establishing a local presence in Europe, SugarCRM is also localizing support materials for the French and German markets, expanding its on-demand infrastructure there and launching a campaign to raise awareness of the platform in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Growth Opportunities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pushing into Europe is a smart move for the company, Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of Nucleus Research, told CRM Buyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's still a lot of opportunity in the CRM market in Europe, particularly for low-cost flexible solutions that can be easily integrated with other applications."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Given Sugar's open source model and delivery as both a hosted and on-premise solution, they should be able to attract new partners that can help them identify key growth opportunities in the European customer base," Wettemann added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Already Making Headway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SugarCRM has already made significant headway into these markets, the firm reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its open source product set has been widely adopted across Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, according to company statistics. Also, about one-quarter of its commercial customers are located in Europe, and more than 30 percent of Sugar Open Source downloads take place in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As in the United States, SugarCRM is claiming wins in Europe against competing on-demand firms such as Salesforce.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dublin-based customer Fineos, a provider of componentized software applications for the insurance, government social insurance and banking industries, chose SugarCRM over Salesforce.com, according to Jarlath Dooley, director of business operations for Fineos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For our demanding sales management process conditions, Sugar was just plain better," he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;A Peaked Business Model?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the intrigue of CRM open source may have had its moment, when it was first introduced a few years ago with much fanfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I don't see them on a short list of deals in which Salesforce.com, [Oracle's] Siebel and SAP are competing," Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone told CRM Buyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firms most inclined to adopt open source CRM are those that want to support the technology and business model or those that don't want to put a lot of money in CRM in the first place. Open source CRM has less than one percent of the overall CRM model, she estimated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Ongoing Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of these trends, SugarCRM has continued to develop its application with the higher end users as a target base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the beginning of the year, it added multichannel marketing and business analytics functionality to its Sugar Open Source, Sugar Professional and Sugar Enterprise product lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New features included a campaign wizard to set up and execute a campaign; a campaign manager to track the opportunities generated and closed by the campaign; automated lead capture, which integrates Web leads into SugarCRM and better management of e-mail marketing, online advertising, newsletters, search engine marketing, list rentals, telesales programs, webcasts and traditional advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new functionality also allows users to generate ad-hoc, multi-module reporting to analyze marketing, sales and customer support. These reports can be displayed in multiple formats such as pie charts or line graphs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SugarCRM is built on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform. It was one of the first open source CRM companies to come to market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- ecommercetimes.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8861099048159454068?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8861099048159454068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8861099048159454068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8861099048159454068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8861099048159454068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/sugarcrm-expands-european-reach-with.html' title='SugarCRM Expands European Reach With Dublin Office'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-2102265252203217732</id><published>2008-09-22T15:21:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-22T15:25:12.269+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Javascript'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Apache OFBiz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='javascript framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='compiere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='google web talkit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Java Developer'/><title type='text'>Agile Development for JAVA enterprise application</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The session at the Java meet this month looks at one of the most common software development &lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;color:#000000;" &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static; background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static; background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;questions encountered in recent times - How to use Agile methodology and techniques on large enterprise application projects? Prerana Patil from Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions limited) speaks about "Agile Development for Java Enterprise Applications." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;* &lt;i&gt;For those not in Pune or unable to attend, add your queries in the comments section below and we will try and get them answered at the meet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;Session Overview :&lt;/strong&gt; Agile is a way to quickly develop working applications by focusing on progressive requirement rather than processes. Agile development is done in iterative manner with short requirements, quick builds and frequent releases. Agile methodology when compared to traditional practices like waterfall model, makes development easier, faster and adaptive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The session would provide a roadmap for building enterprise-class Java applications using agile methods. It would include introduction to agile methodology and when and why it should be used. Various practices used for agile development (Agile Modeling, Agile Draw, Agile estimation) would be discussed. Agile development based Case Study would be drawn using: Light weight&lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;color:#000000;" &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; technologies like Spring; ORM for&lt;span class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;color:#000000;" &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: Arial,Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 13px; position: static;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; database handling; Test Driven Development approach; Build management &amp;amp; Configuration control in concurrent development environment. Session would also include coding practices to make code adaptable to new requirements and tips for using IDE (Eclipse &amp;amp; Netbeans) for agile development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;source:- indicthreads.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-2102265252203217732?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/2102265252203217732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=2102265252203217732' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2102265252203217732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2102265252203217732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/agile-development-for-java-enterprise.html' title='Agile Development for JAVA enterprise application'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4600981517434796522</id><published>2008-09-22T11:55:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-22T11:55:48.627+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hire Drupal Developer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Layouts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal'/><title type='text'>Why use Drupal as your Content Management of choice?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Drupal CMS Benefits:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                                                &lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Open Source PHP:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Readily available to all with a community of users for support.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wide Variety of Modules:&lt;/span&gt; Create any type of website from Ecommerce to Weblog.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cost Savings:&lt;/span&gt; Open source means no proprietary software fees.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;SEO Friendly:&lt;/span&gt;  Clean, concise code with great control over content and strategic fields.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Versatility:&lt;/span&gt; A talented Drupal web developer can create just about anything for your website.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Great Control:&lt;/span&gt;  Amazing control over what goes into your website.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ease of Content Management:&lt;/span&gt; Fast, efficient content management system makes updates a breeze. No more updating fees and waiting around for your website designer or developer to update the html pages for you. login to your custom administrator platform and update your site as easily as using Microsoft word or other word processing applications. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Scalability:&lt;/span&gt; with a trusted core and supported open source community the Drupal platform continues to grow and gain exposure and features as the versions go on.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Web 2.0 Friendly:&lt;/span&gt; with the integration and scalability comes the ability to integrate RSS Feeds, and tap into Social Networking websites such as Facebook and Myspace. Interested in how Social Networking can tie into your Drupal project? Visit our Facebook and Social Networking development services page for additional info.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- digitalsurgeons.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-4600981517434796522?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/4600981517434796522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=4600981517434796522' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4600981517434796522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/4600981517434796522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-use-drupal-as-your-content.html' title='Why use Drupal as your Content Management of choice?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-785601945097499410</id><published>2008-09-22T11:33:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-22T11:38:12.663+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla components'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla installation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla cms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla accessibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla developers'/><title type='text'>Joomla Development</title><content type='html'>The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbie’s.Joomla Development have a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! Site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joomla Development Teams:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joomla! Is the world's hottest open-source content management system, and the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize. Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, Joomla Development the true power of Joomla! Lies in its application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! Package or in a freely available extension. Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joomla development Advantages:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One other advantage of Joomap is that it allows you to hook in to Google Sitemaps. On the admin interface these is a Google Sitemap URL given. All Joomla Development; need to do to generate a dynamic Google sitemap is to copy paste this URL into Google webmaster interface and now whenever Google wants to download your whole website sitemap it gets a dynamic version - which is significantly better than just hoping Google will find all of your pages! With this sitemap it tells Google all of your pages and where they are so it can scan them more affectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joomla Development Websites:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often content managed websites can look just that, Joomla Development but with a complex custom Joomla website package you will have the advantages of having the Joomla content management system with a truly unique look. The content area of each page can be set up so that the layout is unique from page to page and I can even take the design of a static website such as the original Xpec website and create a custom designed Joomla website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joomla Workshop:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joomla developers, web editors, Joomla users and advocates, and anybody with an interest in getting their organization’s offline content on online and managing their Web content will benefit from this workshop. Know about what's next in Joomla development, lead developer of Joomla Development your experiences with the famed content management system, ask that tough Joomla tech question the answer to which still eludes you, meet other Joomla people. And even if you're just curious about what Joomla is, this workshop is still open to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joomla Development Strategy:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main responsibility of the development working group is taking care of the development of the Joomla! Application framework and the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS). Beside the development of the Joomla! code base the development working group defines the Joomla! Roadmap strategy, Joomla Development creating (architectural) designs for major and minor versions and of course takes care of bug- and security fixes in maintenance versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- turnaroundmedia.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-785601945097499410?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/785601945097499410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=785601945097499410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/785601945097499410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/785601945097499410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/joomla-development.html' title='Joomla Development'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5024005127532128455</id><published>2008-09-20T11:06:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-20T11:07:18.925+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hire Drupal Developer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Layouts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal'/><title type='text'>Drupal Content Management &amp; Drupal Website Design Services are here:</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It's Not Your Grandma's Content Management System...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are looking for a Drupal Development and Design service and integration, you have come to the right place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drupal is the open source CMS platform that is changing the world of content management and web development. The Digital Surgeons team has the ability to create full custom website solutions starting with the award winning robust Drupal Content management core platform. This is not the 'add on' content management system feature of old, but a whole new way of creating great looking and highly functional online masterpieces that allow the client complete control over the content and function of the web experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A vast array of open source Drupal modules have been developed for creating ecommerce websites, company Blogs, site search, ad management, membership sign up, and so many other features that a Drupal CMS based site can cover just about any online application today. Digital Surgeons will build a site tailored to the unique needs and goals of your organization, incorporating appropriate Drupal modules or creating original solutions that fit your company to a tee including:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Promotional Websites&lt;br /&gt;* Social Networking and Community web Sites&lt;br /&gt;* High Traffic B2B and B2C Websites and portals&lt;br /&gt;* Ecommerce Websites&lt;br /&gt;* University Websites&lt;br /&gt;* News &amp;amp; Media Websites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A number of Drupal 6 themes (website layouts) have been published in their open source data base offering great variety of page layout and look. Our expert web developers can customize an existing Drupal theme that makes sense for your website focus, or we can craft a custom CMS based site from the ground up, designed to grab and hold the attention of your target audience. Once your site is launched to the web, Digital Surgeons will get to work with a custom search engine marketing campaign to target your ideal customer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our talented of team of expert PHP developers and Creative graphic designers can scult your marketing objectives and goals into a finished scalable platform for you and your viewers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- digitalsurgeons.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5024005127532128455?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5024005127532128455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5024005127532128455' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5024005127532128455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5024005127532128455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/drupal-content-management-drupal.html' title='Drupal Content Management &amp; Drupal Website Design Services are here:'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1901495514319396555</id><published>2008-09-20T10:31:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-20T10:38:27.413+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Blog'/><title type='text'>Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution.</title><content type='html'>Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Customer Main Features:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Search Engine Friendly URLs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Create search-engine friendly URLs (like http://example.com/product/brand-best-shoe/1234) that make it easier for search engine crawlers to index your site, which ultimately drive more organic search visitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Meta-Tags&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With each new catalog page (product, category, even a static or dynamic page) you'll be able to define meta tags: page title, description, and keywords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E-mail Notifications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento will makes it easy to get notifications to customers. Customize email templates for a variety of notifications in both HTML and plain text. Examples of e-mails include new customer notifications, order confirmation, order update, lost password, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Customers will have the ability to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Find products to compare by clicking "Compare" on the products to add them to the Compare Box as they browse.&lt;br /&gt;- From the Compare Box, a "Compare These" button brings up the product comparison chart.&lt;br /&gt;- View, print and email a comparison chart, showing all of the selected products' comparable attributes and how they stack up against one another.&lt;br /&gt;Layered Navigation allows your customers to filter products in a category using different product attributes. Customers can filter down a large number of items to fit their price range, size, etc., allowing them to find the right products quickly and easily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;On each product page, you'll find:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Add-a-Tag: Allow logged-in users to add a tag to the product's description.&lt;br /&gt;- Tag Cloud: The tag cloud will display all tags associated to the product. Clicking on a tag will bring up a product listing page with all other products that share the same tag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Shopping Cart will be composed of the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The products list, which will list the products currently in the cart along with the following information about each:&lt;br /&gt;- Product Thumbnail&lt;br /&gt;- Product Name&lt;br /&gt;- Unit Price&lt;br /&gt;- Quantity (editable)&lt;br /&gt;- Total (per product)&lt;br /&gt;- Remove Button&lt;br /&gt;- Update Button&lt;br /&gt;The totals section, which will show the following applicable totals without having to go through checkout:&lt;br /&gt;- Subtotal&lt;br /&gt;- Tax (if applicable)&lt;br /&gt;- Discounts (if applicable)&lt;br /&gt;- Grand Total (what the customer owes)&lt;br /&gt;- Estimated Shipping, where a customer can enter a zip code and get a shipping quote&lt;br /&gt;- The discount field, where a customer can enter a coupon code&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Administration Panel Main Features:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sales Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A detailed overview of number of orders, items sold, revenue, shipping charged, discounts applied, taxes collected, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Shopping Cart Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This shows a per product breakdown of how often products have been added to cart, conversion rate, etc. An additional view shows a breakdown of customers and number of items in their saved shopping carts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wishlist Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A per product breakdown of popularity in wishlist, number of times purchased from wishlist, percentage of wish lists purchases vs. regular purchases, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Reviews Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reviews report will show the most active customer reviewers, most frequently reviewed products. Store owners can also view all reviews written by individual customers, or all reviews applied to individual products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tags Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tags report will show the most active taggers, and most frequently tagged products. Store owners can also view all tags added by individual customers, or all tags added to individual products. The report will also show most popular tags, regardless of product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Search Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will show most popular search terms, or search terms with the highest number of results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Magento's Content Management System (CMS), you'll be able to create an unlimited number of static pages and landing pages using HTML. When you're creating a page, you can define the following: - Page Title: Define the title of the page.&lt;br /&gt;- Meta Data: Define meta data like meta description, meta keywords etc.&lt;br /&gt;- URL: Define the page URL (http://www.mystore.com/faq)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Batch Import/Export&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Batch Import/Export, you can easily manage your catalog without having to edit within the admin. Instead, export your data (you can customize exactly what data you export), edit it (add or modify items), and then import it back to see the changes in the catalog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not everyone in your company should have access to every facet of your store. That's why Magento features an easy-to-use Permissions Editor. Create users for all your employees then assign them to groups, eg. "Full Admin", "Customer Service", "Warehouse".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- webscripts.softpedia.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1901495514319396555?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1901495514319396555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1901495514319396555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1901495514319396555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1901495514319396555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/magento-is-new-professional-open-source.html' title='Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution.'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-5904742620012627910</id><published>2008-09-20T10:30:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-20T10:30:33.430+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-Commerce Software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecommerce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce News'/><title type='text'>Magento: The Zimbra of Ecommerce?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Magento is a new open source ecommerce platform that aims to handle all aspects of building and maintaining an ecommerce site including shopping carts, shipping, product reviews, and much more. The company looks to play in the “professional open source” space, offering its code base to developers that want to build their own plugins or create customized versions of the software. Magento seems to be off to a good start with more than 10,000 downloads in the two weeks since first being released, according to the company. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Magento plans to make money by offering an enterprise edition, partnerships with third parties that want to integrate with the platform (for example, payment gateways), and a platform for companies to buy and sell components for the software. Other potential revenue streams include training, certifications, and consulting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The approach Magento is taking to ecommerce software is very similar to the approach Zimbra successfully applied to email. Considering the $350 million pay-off Zimbra received from Yahoo earlier this week, Magento may be onto something as they go after one of the Web’s largest segments in ecommerce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;source:- mashable.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-5904742620012627910?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/5904742620012627910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=5904742620012627910' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5904742620012627910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/5904742620012627910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/magento-zimbra-of-ecommerce.html' title='Magento: The Zimbra of Ecommerce?'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-8449242763994660332</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.008+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-19T17:30:14.461+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><title type='text'>OS Commerce Watch: New Magento 1.1 Released</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This is one in a series of columns on the open-source commerce (OSC) industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those Magento boys and girls are at it again, kicking butt and taking names by releasing a brand-new, expanded 1.1 release of their already feature-rich open source e-commerce program. The company claims to already be the fastest growing e-commerce platform on the market – and not just open source e-commerce — with over 400,000 production downloads in only 16 weeks. This latest release will boost the world’s acceptance curve sharply with new features that will pique international interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The team's marketing messages, already good from the start, have become laser-focused and clearer than any open source e-commerce team I've seen. They have positioned themselves as the competitive solution for shops ranging from the mom-and-pop-type shop, through the medium-size shop selling up to $150 million per year, and their features make them ideal for an enterprise shop. The company is aiming this latest release squarely at world expansion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Summary of New Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This new release includes hundreds of bug fixes and performance improvements including SEO-related fixes, improvements in the Admin components, and also adds support for Canadian and European taxes. Expanded product options will win over the hearts of those who sell customized products, with custom product options, personalized products, and virtual or downloadable products. And an exciting new feature is a Web services API, which opens the door for Magento to be integrated with any application via a Web Services API.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Performance Issues Addressed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company says one of the main goals for Magento 1.1 was to examine bottlenecks in the platform and improve performance. This new release addresses the key concerns of many 1.0 users, including many bug fixes and slow page-loading times. Changes have been made to the Admin so that data are loaded only when necessary, improving the responsiveness of the Admin significantly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company claims a 40-percent performance improvement. Some 1.1 alpha users reported performance improvements of 70 percent in their tests, while others complained that while the new version is much faster, it remains relatively slow. Many factors can influence the speed of the program, including server and caching settings, so if a store remains slow after upgrading, the store owner should seek out additional measures to improve the store's performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;International Support Increased&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magento Version 1.0 was a US-centric product. Version 1.1 will see the expansion of Magento into many additional new countries where it was previously impossible to use the program due to tax law limitations. Complex laws in Europe and elsewhere for Value Added Taxation (VAT) formerly required programmers to extend the code. According to Varien's Chief Technology Officer, Yoav Kutner, the team has redesigned the tax module so it is more flexible for international use, as well as for changing taxation laws in the US. Already there are active user forums in nearly 50 languages. Translations of over 60 languages and dialects have been initiated by volunteers with varying degrees of completion, and 23 locales are 85 to 100 percent complete. As a result of these activities and changes, the number of version 1.1 product downloads should spike sharply with significant world-wide interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Additional “Wow” Product Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new version allows customers to create custom products, also known as bundled products or "kitting" (making kits). For example, a customer can create and purchase a computer with user-selectable options such as case, hard drive, RAM and monitors with pricing dynamically generated. Unfortunately, store owners who have already created simple products cannot convert the existing products to bundled products; they must go back in and recreate the product as a new, bundled product. But, this is a small price to pay for such an expansive feature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another welcomed product feature in this release is “customer-defined product options” such as specifying text or images for monograms, engraving, and custom printing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most exciting is that the company unexpectedly tucked into this release support for virtual or downloadable products. Roy Rubin, President of Varien Inc., the company that developed the program, said he Initially expected to release downloadable product support "right behind 1.1." It is rare indeed to move the launch of a planned feature up, and this new feature alone will create many new converts to the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Other New Features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rounding out the gaggle of new additions to the program are a couple of small but nice new features; new customer attributes such as prefix/suffix (Dr., Jr.) and date of birth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The “One-Click Upgrade” from 1.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rubin says the heavily-touted Magento "One-Click Upgrade" is now in place for this release, and that it will work with the public release of 1.1 as long as the relevant 1.0 code has not been modified. It is always wise, however, to make a copy of the site and install the upgrade on the copy. The company strongly recommends against installing on a live or production site, but how many store owners will listen only to the words "One-Click Upgrade"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Industry Wait-and-See&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Template companies that offer templates for many other open source e-commerce programs have taken a wait-and-see attitude towards releasing templates or skins for Magento. Likewise, many experienced open source programmers are unfamiliar with the object-oriented programming used by Magento. Slow release of programmer documentation to get programmers on board, and unfamiliarity with the Zend Framework on which the program is based, have all slowed the program's acceptance into the industry by Web developers. The company would be well-advised to speed the release of developer documentation even if it is not pretty or absolutely fleshed-out yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Enthusiastic Community&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, the company has been responsive to the concerns of its users with the product it has released today, and that responsiveness to end users is refreshing in the techno-centric world of open source e-commerce. With this release, it's time for the industry biggies — osCommerce, Zen Cart and CRE Loaded — to sit up and take notice if they haven't already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In its short four-month existence, Magento has already been nominated for a number of prestigious awards, including the O'Reilly 2008 Open Source Awards and SourceForge.net's Community Choice Awards. Magento was a finalist in SourceForge’s categories for Best Project for the Enterprise, Best New Project, Most Likely to Change the World and Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition. How many eCommerce programs can claim that, open source or not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line: Magento is already loved and accepted by end users and the community. This new release will just create more, worldwide converts. It’s a real winner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- ecommerce-guide.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-8449242763994660332?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/8449242763994660332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=8449242763994660332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8449242763994660332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/8449242763994660332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/os-commerce-watch-new-magento-11.html' title='OS Commerce Watch: New Magento 1.1 Released'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-7584636543832624167</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-19T17:05:41.206+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ecoomerce News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce solution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E-Commerce'/><title type='text'>Five Tips For Improving Ecommerce Website Usability</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt; ECOMMERCE AND USABILITY:  What did you spend in man (or woman) hours and advertising dollars last month to  drive traffic to your ecommerce storefront? And what will you spend this  upcoming  holiday season? If you're like most Internet retailers, it might just seem like  the total expenditure of a small nation. Is it more than you need? What are the  other options to improve long-term customer value? Let's look at some practical  tactics for improving the usability of your ecommerce site to increase long-term  customer interaction with your products and your brand.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Identify Users By Email Address; Not Username&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It might seem  like a good idea on the surface to enable people to customize their user  experience with personalized usernames, but most consumers change their personal  profiles frequently. How do you ensure your "forgot username" function doesn't  get overloaded? Try using an e-mail address to identify users rather than a username.  E-mail addresses (while changed frequently) are easier to remember, often  require no special characters and are most always unique, so users avoid the problem of  someone else already taking their preferred username.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Shorten the  (Perceived) Distance To Checkout Completion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can't see the forest because of the trees? Probably so. Often times, ecommerce merchants think they "get" the optimal user checkout experience, but breaking the process up into shorter segments allows users to focus on one step at a time. There's less to think about at each step and less information to enter (or screw up). Consider splitting the ordering process into just five sections (supposing they are logged in); delivery address confirmation, delivery option selection, entering payment details, order review/submission and confirmation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Address (and Publicize) Common User Issues&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the time you've spent building out a comprehensive FAQ section should not go to waste. It's important that throughout the ordering process, common user questions and queries are addressed. Users might want to know how long delivery is expected to take, or if they have to enter extra information such as their date of birth, they might want to know why. Go through the ordering process and ask yourself at each stage: What queries might a user have? Answers to these queries should either be provided on-screen, or through a hyperlink. Take this a step further by cutting off issues at the pass. If you give your users a "dashboard" to see account activity, this is the perfect place to highlight these issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Establish Trust With Users&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many consumers are still not 100% comfortable buying online - no surprise, right? They might be concerned about giving out their credit card number, or about not receiving the items they've paid for. It's therefore important that you acknowledge and allay these concerns to put users' minds at ease. Try and think about the concerns users might have at each step of the ordering process, and try to address them. For example, who is this person or company I am buying from? Including information on your company and the people behind the company is essential to your success. Links to this information should always be included in the navigational architecture of your users' experience, but consider calling out this information within a sidebar during the actual checkout process. If you're worried about abandonment or leakage in general - open up the link in a new browser window.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Success From Confirmation Emails:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once a user has placed their order, a confirmation e-mail should be sent  immediately - no waiting until you can process the order. Confirmation e-mails should be brief  and tell users important information such as the order number or tracking code.  Including contact information for a real customer service associate from the company  might be a little too much for the business process of smaller enterprises, but  if you can manage, there is no substitute for conveying yours is a quality  product from a quality company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source:- websitemagazine.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-7584636543832624167?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/7584636543832624167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=7584636543832624167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7584636543832624167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/7584636543832624167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/five-tips-for-improving-ecommerce.html' title='Five Tips For Improving Ecommerce Website Usability'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-1450294622832276337</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-19T13:57:53.222+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo News India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Article India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Seo Benefits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>How to Make Your Page Search Engine Friendly and User Friendly</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Every web publisher wants to attain top positions in the search engines to increase traffic. To attain a high ranking, your site has to be search engine friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search engine spiders index your web site. They only read the HTML code in your web pages. They don't read graphics, JavaScript code and other scripts and features.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just a few simple changes to your web pages can give your site a huge search engine boost. Even better, it can bring in ongoing FREE targeted traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's important to create a search engine friendly site while at the same time keeping your site friendly to your visitors. You want to structure your pages for maximum search engine exposure without compromising the content or look of your site. After all, what good is traffic if your visitors won't read your pages?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Keyword-rich, theme-based web sites will give you both targeted traffic and good search engine ranking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here are 10 easy steps you can take to make sure your pages are search engine friendly and user-friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Selecting a domain name:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;There is a lot of disagreement about whether search bots give importance to the keywords in your domain name. I suggest that you select a domain name that indicates what your site is about. Even if it doesn't matter to search engines, it's important that it tells your visitors what the topic of your site is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Focus on one theme:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Search engines love specialized content. If you have several topics, then you should create several web sites. The more you focus on one topic, the more your page will be optimized for search engines and the more relevant it will be to your visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Create multiple content pages&lt;/strong&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Make a separate page for each important keyword and key phrase. If, for example, you want your site to come up for the key phrases web consulting, web design, and search engine optimization, make three separate pages. Create a web page for each major keyword. Don't create automated pages just to get search engine exposure. To keep visitors at your site, you have to give them good content. Keyword-rich articles are a good way to optimize your pages for search engines while providing useful content to your visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Optimize each content page for ONE of your key phrases&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Put your targeted key phrases in your content. Include them in your page title, description tag, ALT image tags, comment tags, and in internal and external links. When providing a title and description in the META tags, your listing may be displayed in the search engine listing as you provide it. Make your titles and descriptions informative and compelling to attract potential buyers to your site. Provide a benefit or solve a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;5. Put your keywords in your content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Search engines are looking at how often your keyword appears on a page. That's how they determine relevancy. Short pages provide a larger percentage of keywords and are better for search engine optimization. The keyword density of a Web page is important for search engine optimization. How often you should mention your keyword throughout the text is different for each search engine, but it varies between 3% and 5% of your text. In other words, use your keyword 3-5 times for every 100 words on your page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Naming files and directories:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Put important keywords in all file names and directories/folder names describing the content. For example, to promote e-book covers, I name my files ebook-covers.html, cd-covers.html, box-cover.html, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Naming graphics:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The search bots don't see your graphics but they can see the description of your graphics and navigation buttons in ALT tags (alternative text describing your images for visitors who browse your site with the images turned off). If your navigation links are images, I recommend that you provide text links in addition to the image links for search engine optimization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Navigation:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Have your main navigation links on your home page so search engines can follow your links and index your pages. This is just as important for your visitors as for the search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. Link your pages together:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;You can easily link to all your pages by creating a sitemap.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Directory structure:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Put your important files in the first level. Sub-directories that lie deep are more difficult for search engines to scan. Creating a site map for large sites and providing a link to your site map on your home page is a good way to get all your important pages indexed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Make it easy for search engines to index your site. Apply these simple tips, and you will be well on your way to having a search engine and user-friendly web site!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Source:- promotionworld.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-1450294622832276337?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/1450294622832276337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=1450294622832276337' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1450294622832276337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/1450294622832276337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-make-your-page-search-engine.html' title='How to Make Your Page Search Engine Friendly and User Friendly'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-2535099408477210698</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-18T19:01:32.132+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Drupal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magento Customization'/><title type='text'>PHP upgrade improves Windows backing</title><content type='html'>PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.3, a significant upgrade to the server-side scripting language for Web applications, is expected to be available in a beta release in October, a representative of the PHP community said on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Version 5.3 features improved support for Windows, said Andi Gutmans, who is participating in development of the release and is CTO at PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies. Gutmans spoke about the release during an interview at the company's ZendCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, California on Wednesday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The community has worked on creating a much better binary package for PHP on Windows, which includes the latest [Microsoft] compilers," to benefit performance, Gutmans said. Additionally, more recent third-party libraries are featured for running PHP applications on Windows, with support for XML, graphic manipulation, and database access.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namespaces, a capability enabling mixing and matching of PHP code from various sources, is highlighted in 5.3. This feature enables better maintenance and reuse, Gutmans said. "It allows you to modularize your applications for better maintenance and it makes it easier to use various frameworks together," he said. Frameworks like Zend's PHP framework and PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) could be leveraged, said Gutmans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A full implementation of garbage collection, which provides more efficient use of memory, is featured in PHP 5.3 as well. With garbage collection, long-running PHP scripts will make more efficient use of memory by avoiding conditions that could lead to memory leaks, Gutmans said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another feature, PHP archive (phar) files, enables bundling of a PHP application into a single archive. This makes it easier to distribute and deploy a PHP application, Gutmans said. The concept is similar to the JAR (Java Archive) files used in the Java world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Version 5.3 also offers significant performance enhancements as well a client library integrating PHP with the MySQL database. In general terms, PHP 5.2 applications should function on the PHP 5.3 runtime, according to Gutmans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Internationalization support has been enhanced, for building of applications that can be multilingual. Specifically, the ICU (International Components for Unicode) library is being exposed. Developers can perform functions like sorting and transformations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Gutmans previously estimated a late-2008 release for PHP 5.3, the release now is expected to reach the release candidate phase in the first quarter of 2009. General availability will follow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also at ZendCon on Wednesday, Zend offered insights on what it views as the next-generation of PHP applications. These will be easily maintained, extensible, powerful, and lucrative, said Wil Sinclair, manager of the advanced technology group at Zend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first generation of PHP applications was very simple and lacked testing, he said. They had layers for presentation, application control, database access, and business logic. The next generation of applications has had perhaps millions of users, is object-oriented, and is typically modular, Sinclair said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next-generation systems have been built on the Model View Controller framework and are unit-tested. "Now, we've got an assurance of quality, not necessarily a guarantee," Sinclair said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PHP has entered the commercial world, he said. Sinclair presented as an example Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform built on PHP 5 on top of Zend Framework. Built by Varien, Magento has had more than 450,000 downloads and more than 170 Magento Connect extensions. The application has processed millions of dollars in transactions, according to Sinclair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first public beta of Magento appeared in August 2007, and the 1.0 launch was on March 31, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We definitely see Magento as a next-generation PHP application, said Roy Rubin, founder and CEO of Varien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, open-source WSO2 leveraged ZendCon to make a play in the PHP realm. The company launched WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) 2.0 this week, featuring a scripting language library enabling developers to build and consume SOAP and REST Web services. Security and reliability are offered for enterprise SOA, the company said. The technology was demonstrated at ZendCon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Data services, interoperability, and security are extended in the release. Developers also gain a framework for deploying PHP services meeting enterprise SOA standards, according to WSO2. Additionally, developers can bridge to tens of thousands of PHP Web applications and enterprise data sources, applications, and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capabilities are added in four key areas with version 2.0:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Replay detection to track whether a message is fresh or has been sent previously, thus preventing replay attacks that could lead to denial of service&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- WS-Trust backing to issue, renew, and validate security tokens for trusted relationships&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- WS-SecureConversation support to allow a series of messages to be protected by a single session key and improve efficiency of the operation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Public Key cryptography standards enablement for handling multiple client x509 certificates simultaneously&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developers can send and receive binary data as attachments using MTOM or a SOAP message with attachments. MTOM in version 2.0 has been optimized via caching. WSDL support has been expanded via tools. WSF/PHP 2.0 is available for download now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- techworld.com.au/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-2535099408477210698?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/2535099408477210698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=2535099408477210698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2535099408477210698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/2535099408477210698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/php-upgrade-improves-windows-backing.html' title='PHP upgrade improves Windows backing'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-3976821509377148602</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-18T18:42:36.845+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO benifits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Company Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Service Ahmedabad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Services'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Ahmedabad'/><title type='text'>SEO Services are the Best Option to Maximize your Business ROI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;With more people using Search Engines to explore the World Wide Web, Search Engines are playing a significant role in search activity. Search engines have laid down a new platform of marketing, “internet marketing”. Thousands of firms world wide are competing for customers has entitled Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as an integral part of their internet marketing strategies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the latest drone in the click away world today. SEO is gaining prominence as it not only promotes your website aging and memory loss also helps in getting leaps and bounds of traffic. SEO is the technique of shinning a light on an otherwise least searched website and making it most searchable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique which helps you to build a global customer base. Search engine friendly website is more user friendly, reaching the target audience easily. SEO by and large serves as a preeminent web advertising bargain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The need of the hour to capitalize on how to use search engines to target your niche markets &amp;amp; your prospective clients as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• At least 80% of the traffic emanates from a particular Search Engine to find goods, supplies &amp;amp; services online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Trafficking Patterns: Google: 63%, Yahoo: 21%, AOL: 2%, MSN/Live: 9%, Ask: 3% Others: 2%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• 75% of Internet users generally have an intention of purchasing a product or service when using search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guidelines to adhere to when selecting the professional SEO services:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pre-Contract Guidelines:-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Do not be misguided with firms which guarantee your website getting ranked 1st position in search engines.&lt;br /&gt;• Do not talk to the sales people of the SEO company, talk directly to the SEO experts and find out what exactly they will be working on your site&lt;br /&gt;• Research to find the SEO Company’s existing clients base and verify the actual results if possible.&lt;br /&gt;• The SEO Company should be transparent and should be reliable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- corsavoo.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-3976821509377148602?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/3976821509377148602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=3976821509377148602' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3976821509377148602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/3976821509377148602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/seo-services-are-best-option-to.html' title='SEO Services are the Best Option to Maximize your Business ROI'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-9103290769164755735</id><published>2008-09-18T17:46:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-18T17:48:43.465+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla open source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla Article'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla community'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla components'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joomla cms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla accessibility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joomla developers'/><title type='text'>Blooging with Joomla</title><content type='html'>Since Joomla is an open source web solution, it is free and that should make many corporate professionals very happy. They might request that a blog be created on the corporate website and will be pleasantly surprised when a blog module has been installed and is working perfectly by the end of the business day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many modules that can be changed around in a Joomla template to further expand the creativeness of the web developer that has been tasked with managing the corporate website. The upholstery cleaning orlando Content Management System website has a blog that developer’s use all of the time to discuss the various areas of programming that go into creating a Joomla template.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the software modules for the Joomla open source program are free, and others have been developed by the core software development team and are offered at a reasonable price. There are many blog residential carpet cleaning available in the core management teams databases, so any type of blog can be selected and used on websites around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Joomla site is easy to manage and any corporate blogs could be updated several times in a very short amount of time. The community clean furniture that are devoted to extending the open source library get very creative when they are coding for a blog module, and many of these blogs will have insertion points where photos can placed to let the world know what the blogger looks like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The expandable framework offered by Joomla gets the creative juices flowing. By adding a browser based interface to their website, a blog could be generated to publish upholstery cleaners new york releases, or keep employees at several corporate offices in tune with the latest changes in corporate policy. The blogs are not restricted to one size either because the framework of Joomla is so expandable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogging software that is included in the Joomla Content Management System is part of a large number of extensions that are made available by open source code developers around the world. This blogging software is compatible upholstery cleaning las vegas image and multimedia galleries on a website, and will work well when posted on a website that simply features directory services for clients to use around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freedom of Speech is virtually assured with the blogging software in the Joomla Content Management System. In fact, people might want to discuss many things during the course of a day, and through those discussions feel very open about sharing their extension for Joomla with the rest of the upholstery cleaning orlando Joomla can be test driven before it is implemented into any company intranet, and it is very search engine friendly, so the rest of the world will quite possibly notify the corporation that they are happy to read the positive news about their company through this handy copy of blog software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;source:- corsavoo.com/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1601222187507420078-9103290769164755735?l=software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/feeds/9103290769164755735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1601222187507420078&amp;postID=9103290769164755735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/9103290769164755735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1601222187507420078/posts/default/9103290769164755735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://software-outsourcing-india.blogspot.com/2008/09/blooging-with-joomla.html' title='Blooging with Joomla'/><author><name>Osdindia - Software Company India</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_uG28pmfFZAk/R9Da0IMEi5I/AAAAAAAAACo/RGdnTp8xnbA/S220/OSDI_Logo_100.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1601222187507420078.post-4903660518799653196</id><published>2008-09-15T15:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-15T15:47:40.821+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ZF Developers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Solutions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Articles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Naming Convention'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zend Framework Coding Standard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Php Development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend tutorial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Codding standdard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zend encoder'/><title type='text'>Zend Framework Coding Standard for PHP</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Naming Conventions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1. Classes: -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zend Framework standardizes on a class naming convention whereby the names of the classes directly map to the directories in which they are stored. The root level directory of the ZF standard library is the "Zend/" directory, whereas the root level directory of the ZF extras library is the "ZendX/" directory. All Zend Framework classes are stored hierarchially under these root directories..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Class names may only contain alphanumeric characters. Numbers are permitted in class names but are discouraged in most cases. Underscores are only permitted in place of the path separator; the filename "Zend/Db/Table.php" must map to the class name "Zend_Db_Table".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a class name is comprised of more than one word, the first letter of each new word must be capitalized. Successive capitalized letters are not allowed, e.g. a class "Zend_PDF" is not allowed while "Zend_Pdf" is acceptable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These conventions define a pseudo-namespace mechanism for Zend Framework. Zend Framework will adopt the PHP namespace feature when it becomes available and is feasible for our developers to use in their applications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the class names in the standard and extras libraries for examples of this classname convention. IMPORTANT: Code that must be deployed alongside ZF libraries but is not part of the standard or extras libraries (e.g. application code or libraries that are not distributed by Zend) must never start with "Zend_" or "ZendX_".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;2. Filenames: -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all other files, only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and the dash character ("-") are permitted. Spaces are strictly prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any file that contains PHP code should end with the extension ".php", with the notable exception of view scripts. The following examples show acceptable filenames for Zend Framework classes.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zend/Db.php&lt;br /&gt;Zend/Controller/Front.php&lt;br /&gt;Zend/View/Helper/FormRadio.php&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;File names must map to class names as described above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;3. Functions and Methods: -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Function names may only contain alphanumeric characters. Underscores are not permitted. Numbers are permitted in function names but are discouraged in most cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Function names must always start with a lowercase letter. When a function name consists of more than one word, the first letter of each new word must be capitalized. This is commonly called "camelCase" formatting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verbosity is generally encouraged. Function names should be as verbose as is practical to fully describe their purpose and behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are examples of acceptable names for functions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;filterInput()&lt;br /&gt;getElementById()&lt;br /&gt;widgetFactory()&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For object-oriented programming, accessors for instance or static variables should always be prefixed with "get" or "set". In implementing design patterns, such as the singleton or factory patterns, the name of the method should contain the pattern name where practical to more thoroughly describe behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For methods on objects that are declared with the "private" or "protected" modified, the first character of the variable name must be an underscore. This is the only acceptable application of an underscore in a method name. Methods declared "public" should never contain an underscore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Functions in the global scope (a.k.a "floating functions") are permitted but discouraged in most cases. Consider wrapping these functions in a static class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;4. Variables: -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Variable names may only contain alphanumeric characters. Underscores are not permitted. Numbers are permitted in variable names but are discouraged in most cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance variables that are declared with the "private" or "protected" modifier, the first character of the variable name must be a single underscore. This is the only acceptable application of an underscore in a variable name. Member variables declared "public" should never start with an underscore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As with function names (see section 3.3) variable names must always start with a lowercase letter and follow the "camelCaps" capitalization convention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verbosity is generally encouraged. Variables should always be as verbose as practical to describe the data that the developer intends to store in them. Terse variable names such as "$i" and "$n" are discouraged for all but the smallest loop contexts. If a loop contains more than 20 lines of code, the index variables should have more descriptive names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;5. Constants: -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Constants may contain both alphanumeric characters and underscores. Numbers are permitted in constant names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All letters used in a constant name must be capitalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Words in constant names must be separated by underscore characters. For example, EMBED_SUPPRESS_EMBED_EXCEPTION is permitted but EMBED_SUPPRESSEMBEDEXCEPTION is not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Constants must be defined as class members with the "const" modifier. 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