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Articles, analyses and guides on AI, Cyber Security, Open Source, Digital Health.
Admina: Open Source framework for AI governance
Noferi releases Admina, an Open Source framework sponsored by noze for controlling and governing AI model calls, under Apache 2.0 license.
OISG: noze adopts the paradigm for autonomous AI systems
noze adopts OISG (Open, Intelligent, Secure, Governed), the architectural paradigm proposed by Stefano Noferi for the design and governance of autonomous AI systems. Four interdependent pillars that translate into concrete benefits for products, solutions, partners and clients.
Innovation Management, R&D and Industry 4.0/5.0: an integrated approach
How innovation management, research and development and the Industry 4.0 and 5.0 paradigms intersect to guide the technological transformation of organisations.
Linux 7.0: the kernel changes its number
The Linux kernel moves to version 7.0. No technical revolution: it is a numbering choice. But under the surface, Rust, io_uring and support for emerging architectures are consolidating.
CISOs: why automated vulnerability assessment cuts costs by up to 45%
IBM, Verizon and Ponemon data prove that security automation slashes breach time and costs. Here is how a CISO can act now.
DPOs: how automated compliance cuts operational costs by 80%
With over EUR 4.5 billion in GDPR fines issued and the AI Act in force, DPOs need integrated tools. The numbers speak for themselves.
Compliance Managers: non-compliance costs 2.7 times more than compliance
The Ponemon Institute certifies it: investing in an integrated compliance platform costs 2.7 times less than bearing the consequences. Numbers, trends and solutions.
CyberScan: vulnerability assessment and NIS2 compliance platform launch
noze announces the launch of CyberScan, a cloud vulnerability assessment and NIS2 compliance platform for Italian SMEs. Access by invitation and on request, then verified registration.
EU AI Act — what changes from August 2026
A clear overview of the new EU rules on artificial intelligence and what companies need to do before the deadline.
Medical software and AI: the global state of certifications in 2026
Overview of software as a medical device certifications worldwide, spanning EU MDR, FDA, MHRA and the regulatory challenge posed by the growing adoption of artificial intelligence.
noze. Open Intelligence, Secure Governance
The payoff that gives a name to over 25 years of AI and Cyber Security built together, by the same team, on the same projects.
MLflow update: mature MLOps, from tracking to model serving
MLflow 2.x consolidates the ML lifecycle: tracking, model registry, deployment, evaluation. MLflow Deployments for REST serving, Kubernetes and cloud provider integrations.
Git: twenty years of distributed version control
Twenty years since Linus Torvalds' first commit (April 2005). From kernel development tool to de facto standard: GitHub, GitLab, worktree, sparse checkout and partial clone.
Apache HTTP Server: thirty years of the open source web server
Thirty years since the first release of Apache HTTP Server (1995). From patches on NCSA httpd to founding project of the Apache Software Foundation: HTTP/2, event MPM, mod_proxy and the Nginx challenge.
DeepSeek: the reasoning models challenging Western labs
DeepSeek releases V3 and R1: Mixture-of-Experts models with chain-of-thought reasoning, competitive performance on math and coding benchmarks, open weights and reduced training costs.
DebugABot: Debugging Autonomous Intelligence
DebugABot is a deep tech research project for the governance of autonomous AI agents and embodied intelligent systems, with nine operational primitives.
Rust update: from kernel to backends, the ecosystem expands
Rust is in the Linux kernel, Android and Windows. Tokio, Axum, WebAssembly: the language expands from systems to web backends, with crates.io surpassing 140,000 crates.
GLM-4: the language model from Chinese research
Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI release GLM-4: General Language Model architecture, multilingual pre-training, native function calling and 6B to 9B parameter variants with open licence.
Qwen: Alibaba Cloud's multilingual models
Alibaba Cloud releases Qwen (通义千问): a model family from 0.5B to 72B parameters with native multilingual support, specialised variants for code, maths and vision, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Grafana update: from dashboards to the LGTM platform
The LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) becomes a complete observability platform: logs, tracing, long-term metrics with horizontally scalable architecture.
Gemma: Google releases compact open models
Google DeepMind releases Gemma: 2B and 7B parameter models derived from Gemini technology, with decoder-only architecture, multi-query attention and permissive licence for deployment on limited hardware.
Dake 2.0: deep tech energy
Dake restarts as a deep tech research project at the intersection of quantum physics, artificial intelligence and energy engineering.
PostgreSQL 16: the open source database that never stops innovating
PostgreSQL 16 introduces logical replication from standby, FULL OUTER JOIN parallelism, pg_stat_io for I/O analysis and SIMD acceleration. Nearly thirty years of continuous evolution.
Mistral: the open source language model from Europe
Mistral AI releases Mistral 7B under the Apache 2.0 licence: sliding window attention, grouped-query attention and byte-fallback BPE tokenizer. Outperforms Llama 2 13B with half the parameters.
Ollama: open source language models on your own hardware
Ollama simplifies local execution of open source LLMs: Modelfile for configuration, REST API, GGUF quantization for consumer hardware, support for Llama 2 and CodeLlama.
VALKYRIES: European first aid project concludes
The European VALKYRIES project concludes with results on first aid vehicle deployment systems for multi-victim disasters.
vLLM: high-performance serving for language models
The Berkeley team introduces vLLM with PagedAttention: KV cache management inspired by virtual memory paging, continuous batching and sequence memory sharing for 2-4x throughput improvement.
INPECO: diagnostic AI fine tuning and cloud platform
Collaboration with INPECO continues: fine tuning the diagnostic prediction model and cloud engineering the data pipeline.
Llama: Meta opens the era of open language models
Meta releases LLaMA, a family of language models from 7 to 65 billion parameters: decoder-only Transformer architecture with RMSNorm, SwiGLU and rotary embeddings, competitive with GPT-3 at a fraction of parameters.
Linux 6.1: Rust enters the kernel
Linux kernel 6.1 includes initial support for Rust modules: C kernel bindings, custom allocator and panic handler. After thirty years of C-only development, the kernel welcomes a second language.
SMARTOUR: project conclusion
SMARTOUR concludes with the final conference at La Sapienza, Rome. Cloud-native platform on Kubernetes delivered after 42 months.
Ansible update: from automation to cloud provisioning
Ansible restructures around Collections: modules distributed independently from core, lightweight ansible-core, Galaxy marketplace and containerised Execution Environments.
YK-Robotics: multi-brand robotic programming via web
The collaboration with YK-Robotics begins for the development of a multi-brand robotic programming software with a cloud approach and integrated AI.
React Native: the new Fabric and TurboModules architecture
React Native's new architecture becomes available as opt-in: JSI replaces the async bridge, Fabric rewrites rendering and TurboModules make native modules lazy.
Next.js update: middleware, Rust compilation and hybrid rendering
Next.js 12 introduces Middleware for edge logic, the SWC Rust compiler six times faster than Babel and experimental React Server Components. ISR matures as a rendering strategy.
Bootstrap 5: the CSS toolkit drops jQuery
Bootstrap 5 removes the jQuery dependency, adopts vanilla JavaScript, introduces utility API, RTL support, new accordion and offcanvas components, and the xxl breakpoint.
VALKYRIES: European project for first aid in multi-victim disasters
VALKYRIES launches as a European project for the deployment of first aid vehicles in multi-victim disaster scenarios. noze contributes to the technology platform.
Apache Kafka update: KRaft and the ZooKeeper-free architecture
Kafka 2.8 introduces KRaft in early access: an internal metadata quorum replaces ZooKeeper, simplifying deployment and improving metadata scalability.
noze consolidates its lines of business
noze structures its five main operational areas: Machine/Deep Learning, Cyber Security, Cloud Architectures, Digital Health and Web Development.
PHP 8: JIT compiler and union types
PHP 8.0 introduces a DynASM-based JIT compiler, union types, named arguments, match expression and attributes. After twenty-five years, PHP evolves with a gradual type system.
Rust update: industrial adoption and the path to the kernel
Rust is Stack Overflow's most loved language for the fifth consecutive year. Microsoft, Amazon and the Rust-for-Linux proposal mark industrial adoption and the path to the kernel.
SMARTOUR: evolution to Kubernetes and cloud-native
The SMARTOUR infrastructure evolves to a cloud-native architecture with Kubernetes, Rancher, GitLab CE and Grafana.
Django update: the Python framework embraces async
Django 3.0 introduces ASGI support and first async views: a synchronous framework opens to concurrency without abandoning its API, with a gradual migration path.
Remote work and operational resilience during the pandemic
noze consolidates remote and decentralized support for clients and partners, transforming the emergency into a structural working model.
Meyer and SBS: artificial intelligence for paediatric gastroenterology
Collaboration starts with Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer in Florence on AI applied to Short Bowel Syndrome for clinical support.
Apache Airflow: from incubation to Apache top-level
Apache Airflow becomes a top-level project: KubernetesExecutor, connection pools, mature plugin system and widespread adoption for ETL, data warehousing and machine learning workflows.
OpenTelemetry: an open standard for observability
OpenTelemetry is born from merging OpenCensus and OpenTracing: multi-language SDKs, collector and OTLP protocol for traces, metrics and logs with a single vendor-neutral standard.
ALA Project: Deep Learning for Clinical Diagnostics
The ALA (Advanced Laboratory Automation) project launches, a joint R&D effort between Gruppo INPECO and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna with noze as AI and cloud architect.
Linux 5.0: io_uring and the kernel's new interfaces
Linux kernel 5.0 introduces io_uring for high-performance async I/O, Adiantum encryption for limited hardware and energy-aware scheduling to optimise power consumption.
FastAPI: high-performance Python APIs, by design
Sebastián Ramírez creates FastAPI based on Python type hints, Starlette (ASGI) and Pydantic, with automatic OpenAPI documentation, runtime validation and native async support.
Flutter 1.0: Google's cross-platform UI toolkit
Google releases Flutter 1.0 with Dart widgets compiled to native ARM code, Skia rendering engine, hot reload and an approach that redraws every pixel without native components.
MDR: the EU Medical Device Regulation and the Class I certification path
Deep dive on MDR Regulation 2017/745, comparison with the former MDD Directive 93/42/EEC, and noze's experience certifying a Class I software medical device for diagnostic support.
MLflow: managing the machine learning lifecycle
Databricks releases MLflow for experiment tracking, model packaging and a centralised registry, treating the ML lifecycle as an engineering problem.
Machine learning applied to health data: Digital Health line consolidation
noze consolidates its machine learning work applied to health data. Predictive analysis, classification models and clinical decision support.
ROS 2: next-generation open source robotics
OSRF releases ROS 2 Ardent Apalone with DDS as the communication layer, real-time support, node lifecycle management and integrated security for industrial robotics.
Tailwind CSS: utility-first as an alternative to component frameworks
Adam Wathan proposes a utility-first approach with atomic CSS classes directly in markup, JavaScript configuration and PurgeCSS for dead code elimination.
Apache Airflow: data pipeline orchestration
Apache Airflow models data pipelines as DAGs in Python, with scheduler, executor, web UI and operators for databases, cloud and APIs, born internally at Airbnb.
Grafana: dashboards and observability for modern infrastructure
Grafana provides a visualisation platform with pluggable data sources, composable dashboards, alerting and annotations for monitoring cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
SMARTOUR: operational project start
SMARTOUR project execution begins. noze coordinates infrastructure deliverables with state-of-the-art analysis and technology scouting.
SleepActa: formal establishment of the startup
The SleepActa startup is formally established. R&D continues on machine learning applied to polysomnography and actigraphy, with a path towards EU Level I medical device certification.
PyTorch: dynamic graphs for deep learning
Facebook AI Research releases PyTorch with dynamic computational graphs, autograd and a Pythonic API, offering the opposite approach to TensorFlow's static graphs.
Next.js: React with server-side rendering
Vercel (formerly Zeit) releases Next.js, a React framework with server-side rendering, filesystem-based routing, automatic code splitting and getInitialProps.
Angular: complete rewrite in TypeScript
Google rewrites AngularJS from scratch with TypeScript, component architecture, dependency injection, RxJS and AOT compilation, creating an entirely new framework.
SleepActa: machine learning for polysomnography and actigraphy
Machine learning applied to polysomnography and actigraphy: time series analysis, wake-up prediction and the path towards EU medical certification.
Prometheus: monitoring and alerting for the cloud-native era
Prometheus introduces a pull model for monitoring with multidimensional time series, PromQL, service discovery and built-in alerting, becoming the second CNCF project after Kubernetes.
Keycloak: open source identity and access management
Keycloak provides Single Sign-On, identity brokering, LDAP federation and support for OAuth 2.0, OIDC and SAML 2.0 as an open source IAM server sponsored by Red Hat.
TensorFlow: Google opens the deep learning framework
Google Brain releases TensorFlow under Apache 2.0 licence: static computational graphs, CPU and GPU execution, cluster distribution and TensorBoard visualisation.
Visual Studio Code: Microsoft releases an open source editor
Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code under MIT licence: built on Electron and TypeScript, it introduces Language Server Protocol, extension marketplace, integrated terminal and Git integration.
Electron: desktop applications with web technologies
GitHub releases Electron (formerly Atom Shell): cross-platform desktop applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Chromium for rendering and Node.js for the backend. VS Code and Slack among early adopters.
Keras: high-level deep learning in Python
Francois Chollet publishes Keras, a high-level Python API for building neural networks: sequential and functional layers, compile/fit/evaluate and swappable backend between Theano and TensorFlow.
Rust 1.0: memory safety without a garbage collector
Mozilla releases Rust 1.0: ownership, borrowing and lifetimes guarantee no data races or use-after-free at compile time, without a garbage collector and without sacrificing performance.
React Native: native mobile interfaces from JavaScript
Facebook brings the React paradigm to mobile platforms: JavaScript components translated into native iOS and Android widgets, asynchronous bridge, hot reload and cross-platform code sharing.
Vue.js: the progressive JavaScript framework
Evan You creates Vue.js by combining the best of AngularJS and React: getter/setter-based reactivity, single-file components and incremental adoption without rewrites.
Kubernetes: Google releases its container orchestrator
Google open sources Kubernetes, a container orchestration system inspired by its internal Borg. Pods, Services, ReplicaSets and a declarative model for managing production clusters.
Jupyter Notebook: interactive and reproducible programming
Project Jupyter spins the interactive notebook off from IPython, creating a tool for data science and research with code cells, inline output and multi-language support.
Machine learning for defect detection and production optimisation
ML models applied to industrial quality control and manufacturing process efficiency.
Apache Spark: in-memory distributed processing
Apache Spark introduces the RDD model and in-memory execution to distributed processing, achieving speeds up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce for iterative workloads.
SMARTOUR: the proposal for an intelligent tourism platform
The SMARTOUR proposal takes shape, a platform for smart tourism and cultural heritage, with noze as software architect.
Pandas: the Python library that standardized data analysis
Pandas consolidates its role as the reference library for tabular data analysis in Python with DataFrame, Series, indexing, merge, groupby and I/O to CSV, SQL and Excel.
React: a new paradigm for user interfaces
React introduces the Virtual DOM, declarative rendering and components as functions of data with unidirectional flow, changing the way web interfaces are built.
Docker: containers make deployment reproducible
Docker makes Linux containerisation technologies — namespaces, cgroups and union mount filesystems — accessible through Dockerfiles, images and registries for reproducible deployment.
TypeScript: Microsoft adds types to JavaScript
TypeScript introduces a JavaScript superset with an optional type system, interfaces, generics and type inference that compiles to standard JavaScript to make large-scale projects manageable.
Ansible: agentless infrastructure automation
Ansible introduces an agentless automation system based on SSH and Python with declarative YAML playbooks, idempotency and inventory to manage IT infrastructure.
Go 1.0: Google's language for concurrency and network services
Go 1.0 introduces a compiled language with garbage collection, goroutines for concurrency, fast compilation and static binaries, designed by Google for large-scale network services.
Machine learning and data science enter production
Data science activities for Dake and external clients take shape: the first ML-based data analytics and BI solutions enter production.
GitLab: self-hosted repository hosting and CI/CD
GitLab provides a self-hosted platform for Git repositories, merge requests, issue tracking and integrated CI/CD in a single Ruby on Rails application.
Dake spinoff is born: AI, sensors and energy
The Dake spinoff is founded, born from the RIPEG experience with sensors, IoT and energy, with a focus on AI optimisation of energy networks.
Bootstrap: Twitter's CSS toolkit for the responsive web
Bootstrap provides an open source CSS toolkit with a responsive grid, pre-built UI components, JavaScript plugins, typography and forms to standardise frontend development.
FaSt spinoff is born: photovoltaic energy
The FaSt spinoff is founded, dedicated to photovoltaic energy generation projects.
Apache Kafka: distributed messaging for the data era
Apache Kafka introduces a distributed messaging system based on append-only logs, partitioning, consumer groups and configurable retention to treat data as a continuous stream.
AngularJS: Google brings declarative data binding to the browser
AngularJS introduces two-way data binding, dependency injection and directives in the browser, creating the first opinionated SPA framework for enterprise applications.
Co-founding T-OSSLab, Tuscany's Open Source competence centre
noze is among the promoters of T-OSSLab, the Tuscan regional competence centre for Open Source software.
D@NTE: digital publishing with Giunti Editore
D@NTE project with Giunti Editore and Giunti Scuola: advanced publishing systems, collaborative SaaS portal and learning platform on Alfresco.
npm: the package manager that created an ecosystem
npm introduces a centralised registry and client for managing Node.js modules, with package.json, semantic versioning and nested dependencies.
RIPEG: mobile environmental monitoring selected for Expo Shanghai
The RIPEG project for real-time ultrafine particulate monitoring on mobile vehicles is selected for 'Italy of Innovators' at Expo Shanghai.
Forum PA 2010: Open Source document management with Alfresco for public administration
Stefano Noferi speaks at Forum PA 2010 in Rome on document management in public administration with Alfresco: dematerialisation, electronic protocol, workflow and integration with digital signatures and certified email.
scikit-learn: accessible machine learning in Python
scikit-learn 0.1 brings classification, regression and clustering to Python with a uniform fit/predict/transform API, built on NumPy and SciPy.
ROS: the operating system for open source robotics
ROS (Robot Operating System) is the open source middleware from Willow Garage that standardises robotic development with publish/subscribe communication, hardware abstraction and simulation.
Redis: the in-memory store redefining caching
Redis is an in-memory data structure server supporting strings, lists, sets, hashes and sorted sets, with atomic operations, pub/sub and optional persistence.
MariaDB: the fork protecting MySQL's open future
MariaDB is born as a fork of MySQL after Oracle's acquisition of Sun, offering drop-in compatibility, the Aria storage engine and an improved query optimiser.
Web consulting for the UN, ILO and University of Oxford
noze works for the UN Secretariat in Geneva, the ILO and the University of Oxford: web architectures and collaborative portals on Plone.
Node.js: JavaScript leaves the browser
Node.js brings JavaScript to the server side through Chrome's V8 engine, with a single-threaded event loop and non-blocking I/O to handle thousands of concurrent connections.
Knowledge management for Prometeia
Knowledge management and activity management platform for Prometeia: risk management, budget forecasting and collaborative tools.
Open Source enterprise platforms: Plone, Alfresco and beyond
noze's business lines expand: Plone/InFlow CMS, Alfresco ECM, System Integration, Networking, ICT Legal and R&D.
Python 3: the deliberate break with backward compatibility
Python 3.0 fixes historical language inconsistencies: print becomes a function, Unicode strings by default, true division. A transition that will take years.
noze at the discussion day on Open Source and Reuse
noze participates in the discussion day on Open Source and Reuse, organised by the Regional Competence Centres of Regione Toscana.
Nginx: the event-driven architecture challenging Apache
Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven model to handle thousands of concurrent connections with minimal memory: reverse proxy, load balancing and static serving for high-traffic sites.
Linux kernel 2.6: enterprise maturity and new release model
The 2.6 kernel adopts time-based releases: O(1) scheduler, NPTL, SELinux, device mapper and FUSE bring Linux to data centres, embedded devices and supercomputers.
noze Bronze Sponsor of PyCon Due Italia
noze is Bronze Sponsor of PyCon Due Italia, the second Italian Python community conference, held 9-11 May.
PostgreSQL 8: the relational database that makes no compromises
PostgreSQL 8.3 with HOT updates, integrated full-text search and improved performance. MVCC, extensions, custom types and PL/pgSQL: from Berkeley academic project to the most complete open source relational database.
Hadoop: the framework for large-scale distributed processing
Inspired by Google's GFS and MapReduce papers, Hadoop offers distributed storage (HDFS) and parallel computation (MapReduce) on commodity hardware with native fault tolerance.
noze at QuiFree.it, Festival of Creativity in Florence
noze, as CIRS Consortium President, participates in QuiFree.it at the Festival of Creativity in Florence, promoted by Regione Toscana.
ESCOGITARE: visual workflow and DNA simulation on Grid
The ESCOGITARE project launches with ISTI-CNR: visual workflow manager, DNA sequence experiment simulation and BPEL processes on Grid Globus.
GPL v3: the Free Software Foundation updates copyleft
After 18 months of public consultation, the FSF releases GPLv3: anti-tivoization clauses, Apache 2.0 compatibility and new patent provisions.
Conclusion of the European MindRACES project
The European FP6 MindRACES project on anticipatory cognitive systems concludes, with ISTC-CNR and five European research centres.
Globus Toolkit: the middleware of scientific grid computing
Globus Toolkit provides federated authentication (GSI), job submission (GRAM), data transfer (GridFTP) and discovery (MDS) for distributed computing across heterogeneous clusters.
GRID.IT: portal for Italian Grid Computing
FIRB GRID.IT project with ISTI-CNR and INFN: portal, certification authority and dissemination for Italian Grid Computing.
Mailman: managing mailing lists and newsletters with free software
Mailman is the Python mailing list manager: subscriptions, moderation, digests, web archiving with Pipermail and MTA integration for open source community communication.
noze wins the Young Entrepreneurship Award
noze receives the 2006 Young Entrepreneurship Award from the ConfCommercio Pisa Young Entrepreneurs.
noze takes the Presidency of CIRS
noze becomes president of CIRS, Italy's first consortium of FLOSS companies, of which it had been a co-founder in 2004.
Pattern recognition for industrial quality control
noze launches industrial projects for automatic pattern and image classification for defect detection in manufacturing processes.
Zimbra: the open source collaborative suite for email and groupware
Zimbra delivers email, calendar, contacts and tasks in an open source platform with an AJAX client, Java backend, and integrated Postfix and OpenLDAP as an alternative to Exchange.
SIRM: first European online scientific poster management system
At the 42nd SIRM National Congress, the fully online scientific poster management system developed by noze debuts, the first of its kind in Europe.
Alfresco: enterprise content management without proprietary licenses
Alfresco delivers an open source ECM with JSR-170 repository, BPMN workflow, document versioning, metadata and automatic rules as an alternative to SharePoint and Documentum.
Interactive CD-ROM for Fondazione CRUI on university self-assessment
noze develops the interactive multimedia CD-ROM on self-assessment of university study programmes for Fondazione CRUI, coordinated by Consorzio Quinn.
Ruby on Rails 1.0: convention over configuration
Ruby on Rails 1.0 ships in 2005: Active Record, MVC, scaffolding, migrations and the CoC and DRY principles redefine productivity in web development.
Radio 105: double win at the Sole 24 Ore WWW Award
105.net, designed by noze, wins the Entertainment and Broadband categories at the Sole 24 Ore WWW Award.
Joomla: the community CMS born from the Mambo split
Joomla is born in 2005 as a fork of Mambo: MVC architecture in PHP, extension system, ACL and content management driven by the open source community.
Teaching at the University of Pisa Open Source Master
Noferi teaches at the University of Pisa Master in Open Source software management, with lectures on CMS and web applications.
Django: the Python web framework born in a newsroom
Django is born in 2005 at the Lawrence Journal-World: ORM, auto admin, URL routing, template engine and built-in authentication in the 'batteries included' Python framework.
A.K.I.R.A. wins Opensourcecontest.it
The Open Source cognitive architecture A.K.I.R.A. wins Opensourcecontest.it, the first Italian framework for intelligent agents.
New portal of the Province of Teramo by noze
The new portal of the Province of Teramo, developed by noze on Open Source technologies, goes online with informational and e-government services.
Git: Linus Torvalds reinvents version control
Git is born in 2005 as a distributed version control system: SHA-1 integrity, DAG commits, cheap branching and full clones reshape the way software is developed.
Founding of the Italian Zope Association (AZI)
The Italian Zope Association (AZI) is founded to develop the Italian Zope and Plone community. noze is among the founding members.
CMOS: project conclusion and contribution to the Plone ecosystem
The CMOS project concludes after 30 months. The fully Open Source CMS platform developed with Bassilichi and the University of Florence feeds into the Plone ecosystem.
RadioMonteCarlo wins the WWW Award from Il Sole 24 Ore
The radiomontecarlo.net website, built by noze, wins the Arts, Culture and Entertainment category at the WWW Award from Il Sole 24 Ore.
PHP 5: the object-oriented turn for the web's language
Zend Engine II brings PHP a full OOP model: visibility, interfaces, exceptions, iterators. With PDO and SimpleXML, PHP becomes a platform for structured web applications.
MindRACES FP6: anticipatory cognitive systems and the AKIRA framework
European FP6 project on anticipatory cognitive systems. noze develops AKIRA, a multithreaded C++ framework with Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.
CIRS: the first Italian consortium of FLOSS companies is born
CIRS (Consortium Italicum Ratione Soluta) is founded, the first Italian consortium of FLOSS companies. noze among the founding members.
Plone: the enterprise CMS built on Python and Zope
Built on CMF and Zope, Plone 2.x offers configurable workflows, role management, WCAG accessibility and internationalisation. The CMS adopted by public administrations, universities and international organisations.
noze joins the campaign against software patents in Europe
noze joins the FFII campaign against software patents in Europe, publishing an appeal and open letter on noze.it.
OpenLDAP: open directory services for identity management
The open source LDAPv3 implementation that centralises authentication and identity management across every non-Microsoft infrastructure. Schema, DIT, backends and replication.
SQLite: a relational database in a single file
No server, no configuration: SQLite is a complete SQL database in a linkable C library. ACID compliant, zero-admin, designed to make SQL portable everywhere.
WordPress: the CMS that redefines web publishing
A fork of b2/cafelog, WordPress 0.7 introduces a clean editor, readable permalinks and a plugin-and-theme architecture. A CMS designed for writers, not programmers.
Open Source and PA in Lodi: Noferi presents InFlow for e-government
National conference in Lodi on Open Source and reducing PA costs. Noferi presents the InFlow CMS case for Public Administration.
Sabre: web platform replacing 3270 terminals in travel agencies
noze begins building an Open Source web platform for Sabre Italia that replaces IBM 3270 terminal access to transport and tourism operator booking systems, bringing host services into the browser.
SIRM: integrated member management and online services system
noze begins building the integrated member management system for SIRM: registry, accounting, CME training events, national congress, sirm.org portal and integration with the Hermes mailserver already in production.
FreeBSD: the operating system for network engineers
Derived from 4.4BSD-Lite, FreeBSD offers a high-performance network stack, Jails and the Ports system. The operating system chosen by Yahoo and Hotmail for production workloads.
Italian Zope Meeting at Webbit 2003
noze attends the Italian Zope Meeting at Webbit 2003, gathering the Italian community of Zope developers and users.
National Open Source and Public Administration conference at CNR Pisa
National conference on Open Source and Public Administration at CNR Pisa, with Minister Stanca. Noferi speaks on behalf of SMEs.
The Open Source Initiative and free software licenses
The Open Source Definition, OSI's role and the differences between copyleft (GPL, LGPL) and permissive (BSD, MIT, Apache) licenses.
noze at the IDC Content Management Executive Seminar 2003
noze exhibits at the IDC Content Management Executive Seminar 2003 in Milan, presenting Open Source CMS solutions based on Zope and InFlow.
Tuscany meeting of Open Source companies and professionals
noze organises the Tuscany meeting of companies and professionals working to establish an Open Source business association.
Postfix: the mail server designed for security
Modular architecture with privilege separation, TLS and SASL integration: Wietse Venema's MTA born from IBM research.
Hermes: complete email solution on an Open Source stack
Email platform on Linux/Postfix for intranet and internet, from SME to ISP, with antispam, antivirus and webmail.
noze at SMAU 2002 in Milan
noze participates in SMAU 2002, Italy's main IT and digital technologies trade fair, in Milan.
CMOS: Content Management Open Source with MIUR and University of Florence
Industrial research project funded by MIUR for a modular, multi-channel Open Source CMS platform.
OpenSSL: the open source cryptography protecting the internet
From SSLeay to OpenSSL: SSL/TLS implementation, X.509 certificates, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography for HTTPS, SMTPS and IMAPS.
noze at Webbit 2002 in Padova
noze participates in Webbit 2002 in Padova, the Italian event for web and Open Source technologies.
MySQL: the open source database powering the web
MySQL 3.23 and 4.0: ACID transactions with InnoDB, replication, full-text search and pluggable storage engine architecture for high-traffic web.
First Tuesday Pisa: Open Source, turning point or flash in the pan?
Noferi panelist at the First Tuesday Italy event in Pisa on the future of Open Source, with Microsoft Italy, Sant'Anna and the City of Pisa.
noze at the Navacchio Technology Park
noze moves to the Navacchio Technology Park (Pisa), becoming a long-standing presence in the innovation park.
GNU Bash: the shell that bridges scripting and system administration
Bash 2.x is the default shell on every GNU/Linux system: variables, pipes, redirection, process substitution and scripting for system administration.
OpenSSH: secure and open source remote access
OpenSSH provides a free implementation of the SSH protocol: public key authentication, encrypted tunneling and secure file transfer for every Unix server.
noze at the Linux Install Party at Polo Fibonacci in Pisa
noze participates in the Linux Install Party at Polo Fibonacci, Pisa, with real-time video streaming on Linux Day.
Zope: the object-oriented application server for the web
Zope offers a radically different approach to web development: an integrated object database, granular security and through-the-web architecture.
noze at Webbit 2001 in Padova
noze participates in Webbit 2001, one of Italy's main events for web, Open Source and internet technologies.
Community: real-time messaging with Jabber and SARITEL
Instant messaging platform based on Jabber with SMSToolz, developed with SARITEL S.p.A. for integrated Web-Wap messaging.
InFlow CMS: Open Source content management with asynchronous workflow
Open Source CMS based on Zope/CMF with asynchronous workflow, extensible content types, RDF export and multi-level access control.
Radio 105: high-traffic portals entirely on Open Source
The Radio 105 group websites — 105.net, radiomontecarlo.net, unitedmusic.it — among the first in Italy built ad hoc on an Open Source stack.
Python 2: an interpreted language aiming high
Python 2.1 brings lexical scoping and weak references. An interpreted language that combines readability, a rich standard library and a pragmatic approach to development.
Apache HTTP Server: the open source web server that dominates the internet
With over 60% market share, Apache HTTP Server is the world's most widely used web server. Prefork architecture, modules and the governance model of the Apache Software Foundation.
DBPortal: automatic code generation from data structures
Model-driven generative tool for automatic recognition of data structures and generation of database code and web interfaces.
PHP 4: the language of the dynamic web
With the new Zend Engine, PHP 4 establishes itself as the dominant language for dynamic web page generation, at the heart of the LAMP stack.
B.O.S.S. — Business Open Source Server for SMEs
All-in-one Linux server for corporate networks: internet, email, file sharing, security and backup in a single solution.
The Linux kernel: foundations of the noze stack
Linux is the kernel on which noze bases its entire infrastructure: servers, networking, security and web applications.
The GNU project and free software
The GNU project and the Free Software Foundation provide the philosophical and technical foundations on which noze builds its solutions.
noze is born: Open Source solutions from Pisa
noze S.r.l. is founded in Pisa. Open Source solutions for web, cyber security, automatic systems and R&D.
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