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

We’d like to thank BitNami user nick3216 for posting a great tutorial to answer the frequently asked question “What is the URL for the default Trac Stack Subversion repository from the command line on Windows?” If you’re using the BitNami Trac Stack on Windows and you need to access the Subversion repository from the command line, the tutorial will surely save you some time. Thank you, nick3216!… more

You asked, we delivered! We’re pleased to announce that the BitNami Alfresco Stack has been upgraded to included Alfresco 3.3, the latest stable release of Alfresco. This new release includes the following enhancements:

• Full implementation of the CMIS 1.0 specification, including CMIS query, web services binding, REST binding and more. See CMIS to learn more.
• New Repository Document Library: Provides full access to all content in the Alfresco repository according to user permissions. It includes document version control, thumbnails, comments, previews and more.
• Share Page Component: For managing structured data such as tasks, To-Dos, Issues, Contacts, etc…. more

A couple of weeks ago, we released an updated Redmine Stack for Redmine 1.0. If you’re not familiar with Redmine, it is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. It includes support for multiple projects, role based access control, issue tracking, a Gantt chart, calendar, wikis, forums, time tracking and more. The 1.0 release of Redmine is a major milestone and we’d like to congratulate and thank everyone in the Redmine project who worked on it. It includes a long list of improvements, such as:

• Subtasks:… more

We’re excited to announce BitNami Cloud Hosting, a new offering we have been working on for the past few months. BitNami Cloud Hosting will make it easy to deploy and run BitNami Stacks in the cloud – we want to make it the ‘easy button’ for running open source applications, such as Wordpress, Dokuwiki, Redmine, Alfresco and more, in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting allows you to:

• Choose to deploy one or more applications from the BitNami catalog.
• Manage servers for different clients from a single control panel.
• Use your existing EC2 account to pay for only the computing time… more

As today is SysAdmin Day, we’d like to take a moment to thank all of the system administrators out there. You guys and gals rock! Thanks for keeping the millions of computers and websites of the world running. We swear we have never committed any of these atrocities, but we’ll apologize on behalf of those who have (definitely wasn’t us!) We developed BitNami to help make deploying and running web applications easier. We hope we have managed to save at least a little bit of your time with BitNami Stacks!… more

We’re happy to be sponsoring PGDay.eu 2010, the annual European PostgreSQL conference. This year, the event is being held in Stuttgart, Germany, from December 6th through 8th. The conference will feature two days of talks and a day of tutorials. The call for papers just opened, so be sure to submit your proposal before October 11th. They are looking for talks on:

• Developing applications for PostgreSQL
• Administering large scale PostgreSQL installations
• Case studies of PostgreSQL deployments
• PostgreSQL tools and utilities
• PostgreSQL hacking
• Community & user groups
• Tuning the server
• Migrating from other systems
• Scaling/replication
• Benchmarking & hardware
… more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system… more

We announced OpsCamp SF a few weeks ago, but we wanted to remind you that it is coming up this Saturday. OpsCamp is a free unconference focused on IT operations, especially with regards to virtualization, cloud computing and configuration management. This is the third event of it’s kind – previous events were held in Austin and Boston. If you’d like to get an idea of the content covered at OpsCamp Austin, there are great write-ups here and here (podcast with transcript). OpsCamps are unconferences and sessions are typically conversations around a particular topic, rather than presentations,… more

We just released updates to all of the Ubuntu-based virtual appliances, so they all now include Ubuntu Lucid Lynx as the base operating system. To download the latest virtual appliances, select the open source application you want to deploy from our download page and then scroll down to the ‘Virtual’ section and click on the download link under the Ubuntu logo. If you haven’t given the BitNami Virtual Appliances a try yet, visit our virtual appliance FAQ to see how easy it is to run open source applications as virtual machines…. more