SourceLabs took the wraps off of its SASH Stack for Java yesterday, while this morning at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference startups ActiveGrid and Greenplum announced new offerings. Greenplum, JasperSoft and Kinetic Networks all banded together on Wednesday to offer a BI reporting, datawarehousing and ETL triptych. The combination will enable customers to store information in a datawarehouse, run analysis on that data and deliver it to employees via reporting tools — all via open source. When both Greenplum and JasperSoft launched, it seemed to me as if a partnership would be a natural fit. ActiveGrid on Wednesday announced the first finalized versions of Application Builder and LAMP Application Server. Application Builder is a RAD environment for building rich user interfaces and integrating those with existing back-ends, and it supports XML standards including XML Schema, BPEL, XForms, XPath and WSDL. LAMP Application Server, for its part, brings session management, Web services interoperability and transaction management to the open source stack, and serves as a deployment platform. SourceLabs, meanwhile, said the SASH Stack for Java ties Apache Struts, Apache Axis, Spring Framework and Hibernate into a single stack. Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes said that the pre-packaged solutions can help make open source more accessible to more users. “Linux never would have achieved its current position as a leading server platform if distributors like Red Hat and Novell didn’t exist. JBoss would never have reached its current position as the most widely deployed J2EE-based application platform if JBoss, Inc. weren’t providing support contracts, scheduled patches and updates, consulting, and education,” she commented. “Likewise for MySQL.”The full InfoWorld news story is here. Software Development