We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the BitNami library, the BitNami Magento Stack! Magento is an open source application for ecommerce. It provides a framework for building online stores, including a content management system, catalog management system, shopping cart, customer account management, Google Analytics integration, catalog browsing, coupon support and more. With the BitNami Magento Stack, you get a complete, ready-to-run environment that includes Magento and all of the other software it requires. Note that Magento itself will still require quite a bit of customization because the requirements of each online store are different. The BitNami… more

As we announced last week, we’re very excited to be partnering with SugarCRM to offer their Professional and Enterprise editions on BitNami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, BitNami Cloud Hosting becomes the SugarCRM’s preferred method for deploying its software on the Amazon Cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides solutions providers, resellers and end user organizations with an easy to use platform for deploying and managing both the open source and commercial versions SugarCRM in the cloud. In one click, users can launch new servers,… more

We’re excited to be sponsoring and participating in SugarCon, which is fast-approaching and shaping up to be a great conference. Eight conference tracks cover much more than just using SugarCRM – the conference is about how to improve your business through effectively developing and nurturing customer relationships. There is a whole track dedicated just to cloud computing, in which BitNami founder and CTO will teach attendees about Amazon Web Services and special tips and tricks for deploying BitNami in the cloud, including using BitNami Cloud Hosting. If you haven’t signed up yet and would… more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• 1-Click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can… more

We’re happy to announce the release of updated BitNami Stacks for SugarCRM, Drupal, Redmine and Alfresco. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new releases are freely available as native installers, for installation on desktops or servers, virtual appliances, which can be run in VMWare and Virtualbox, and as cloud images for Amazon EC2 (AMIs) and GoGrid (GSIs). If you’re not familiar with these applications, here is a quick summary:

• SugarCRM: SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM can easily be customized and integrated with… more

Last Friday, Packt Publishing announced the winners of this year’s Open Source CMS Award. Congratulations to Wordpress for earning 1st place as the Best Overall CMS System! Congratulations also goes to MODx and Silverstripe for tying for 2nd place. If you would like to take Wordpress for a spin, BitNami offers ready-to-run packages of Wordpress and everything it requires to run as a native installer, virtual appliance and cloud template, so you can run it on your server, in a virtual environment or in the cloud. To read more about the winners, visit Packt Publishing’s… more