Daily Dose: Release of Jive 4.5.6

Version 4.5.6 Jive, the popular Java portal building platform, boasts a significant set of improvements over the previous releases. Jive users can access Jive remotely using Jive Mobile.  Support is included for Android, Backberry, and iPhone. Overall performance is enhanced thanks to several crucial bug fixes. You can find more release information in the official Jive documentation.

New Perl 5.14 Unveiled

A new stable version of Perl has been unveiled by the Perl development team. While most of the modifications are minor, several key enhancements have been added.  These enhancements include the following:

• Full Unicode Support

• Improved IPv6 Support

• Improved CPAN Client Configuration

The most far-reaching improvements in this version of Perl are those made to enable Unicode support.  

Talend to Sponsor Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation has a new sponsor! An open-source data integration company, Talend, will become an official bronze sponsor of the foundation this year.  Currently, Talend uses Apache CXF and Camel.

Red Hat and JBoss Innovators of the Year Announced!

Red Hat News has announced their official innovators for 2011.  Five category finalists were as follows:

• Optimized Systems
Red Hat: Santos Limited
JBoss: SNS Bank

• Superior Alternatives
Red Hat: DreamWorks Animation
JBoss: Verizon Business

• Carved Out Costs
Red Hat: Nissan Motor Company
JBoss: Emirates Group

• Extensive Ecosystem
Red Hat: InfinitiesSoft
JBoss: New York & Company and Vizuri

• Red Hat and JBoss: Outstanding Open Source Architecture
Rancore Technologies

The vote for overall Innovator of the Year went to Santos Limited.  More details about the competition and individual competitors can be found here.

Introducing Typesafe, the company that takes Scala and Akka to the next stage

Taking Scala and Akka to the next stage! Thanks for the link Martin Odersky!