Bluenog to Contribute Back to Open Source Projects

PISCATAWAY, N.J., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Following on the heels of the
release of Bluenog's award-winning flagship commercial product, Bluenog ICE
4.5, the company plans to contribute back the enhancements it made to numerous
open source projects during its development phase.

Bluenog, an enterprise software and solutions company, has been a
long-standing advocate of open source. The company leverages open source
projects extensively in its software development and professional services
offerings and actively supports the community. Yesterday, the company
announced Bluenog ICE 4.5, the only Enterprise 2.0 application development
platform built on pre-integrated open source collaboration, content
management, presentation and reporting projects. ICE 4.5 aggregates
functionality from over a dozen popular open source projects into a single
commercial product, with additional integration and features all supported by
Bluenog.

Initial contributions will center on the enhanced functionality developed in
the area of collaboration. This includes extensions to the popular, JSPWiki,
which adds support for wiki and page level permissions. The entire wiki also
runs as a portlet with a persistence layer that supports JSR-170. Additional
functionality includes support for multiple wikis in a single server instance,
with the ability to maintain context while switching between wikis.
Enhancements to Bedework include a new group calendaring portlet with an
improved user interface and more Ajax-compatible point and click controls.
Bluenog has also added a permission hierarchy that enables secure, restricted
access to calendars based on a user's role, as well as improved administration
features including support for aggregate calendar groupings into views.
Enhancements have also been made to several other open source projects
including JetSpeed 2, Hippo CMS and Eclipse BIRT.

"Many of the enhancements Bluenog will be contributing back deliver
functionality from the ICE 4.5 product development roadmap," said Suresh
Kuppusamy, CEO and co-founder, Bluenog. "Our contributions will make it easier
for the open source community to use projects such as JetSpeed, Apache,
Eclipse and JSPWiki and leverage the expertise and production-ready
enhancements Bluenog has developed. This will help shorten development
lifecycles and improve the quality and reliability of applications based on
these projects."

Bluenog is also announcing plans to launch their online community,
NogExchange(TM), later this year. NogExchange will serve as a forum in which
developers can download and post a wide range of source code, and will include
portlets built by Bluenog as well as the Bluenog development community.

About Bluenog
Bluenog is an enterprise software and solutions company. Our flagship
product, Bluenog ICE, is an Integrated Collaborative Environment of content
management, portal, and business intelligence software. It eliminates
application silos, reduces total cost of ownership and accelerates application
development. Leading organizations rely on Bluenog ICE, a commercial solution
built on open source CMS, open source portal and open source BI projects, to
build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and manage dynamic website
content at a fraction of the cost of traditional alternatives. Bluenog
Solutions Group meets our customers' unique challenges by combining commercial
and open source software into pragmatic solutions. Headquartered in
Piscataway, N.J., Bluenog is also a Red Hat, Oracle and Actuate partner. For
more information, visit www.bluenog.com.

Bluenog ICE and NogExchange are trademarks of Bluenog. All other trade names
are the property of their respective owners.

This release, and additional Bluenog resources, is available online in the
Feintuch Communications media room at www.feintuchcommunications.com.

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