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Computer science is the womanizer, and math is the pure-hearted girl he won't call the next day.

Cox told ZDNet UK that he thinks many of the changes in GPL 3 are sound: "The majority of it looks very sensible, such as letting copyright information be displayed in an About box, rather than relying on command line instructions [as is the case in GPL 2]. Some of the more contentious stuff has sensibly been made optional," he said, in an interview with ZDNet UK.

If you're investigating Sun's StarOffice as a replacement for Microsoft Office, you'll need to address the conversion question. While StarOffice can read Microsoft Office documents pretty well, the two products' macro languages are incompatible. Sun's StarOffice Enterprise Tools aim to help. The Professional Analysis Wizard and the Macro Migration Wizard are bundled at no extra charge as part of an enterprise license of SO (though you can't download them from the Web). Whether they can help you depends on how many Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations you need to convert -- and don't expect miracles.

The first Icasa licence for an Asterisk-based PBX has been awarded to OpenVoice Holdings. The switching system licence means that OpenVoice's Asterisk PBX may be legally connected to the telecommunications grid.

z/OpenGate(TM) is a 2U (3.5 inches) rack mount unit designed for high availability and redundancy featuring a SUSE Linux OS, dual Intel XEON(R) processors, hot swappable power supplies, and internal mirrored disks.

There's an interesting new open source project called openQRM, billed as a "cluster resource manager." It's currently around 73 on SourceForge, and has been up in the top 50 recently. It was released under a modified version of the Mozilla Public License by Qlusters, a company that was founded by openMosix developer Moshe Bar and that I've repeatedly met with at LinuxWorld Expos. I just talked to a colleague of mine, William Hurley, who recently took a job as Qlusters CTO.

Until very recently the majority of intra-African Internet traffic was routed via international exchange points rather than being routed within the continent. While a number of recently established exchange points on the continent have started to alter that reality there is still a lack of reliable historical data about African Internet traffic. The African IXP Research project has been working on developing some of these required numbers and has released it analysis tool as an open source project.

HMS selected an SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer powered by 144 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and 288GB of memory, and running Novell SUSE(R) Linux(R) Enterprise Server 9 to Meet Challenges of Ultra Short-Range Forecast Codes to Protect Lives and Property Throughout Hungary

Novell Inc has announced that it is bundling training and advanced support free of charge with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product, undercutting rival Red Hat Inc, and introducing a new priority support version targeted at small-to-medium enterprises.

MySQL AB, developer of MySQL, an open source database, was awarded a five-year GSA contract, GS-35F-0131R Schedule 70, providing government the ability to conveniently purchase and deploy MySQL database solutions.

Government organizations that currently use MySQL include Los Alamos National Labs, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and the Department of Defense.

Opinion: It's CFOs and dollars, not CIOs and gigabytes, that determine what technology companies buy. (Linux-Watch)

Samba OXtender Adds File and Print Services for Windows Workstations to Leading Open Source Collaboration Platform

User level: Advanced Most Linux users are familiar with the top command, typically used to examine the system load on a local PC and others on the network. However, have you considered using top to monitor your system automatically and to warn you when a server is being overloaded?

DB2 Express-C Gives Enterprise Customers Dataserver Choice and Delivers the Power of DB2 to LAMP Application Development

Bundling of Support and Training Provides One Stop Shopping for Mid-Size Companies to Leverage the Power of Linux and the Support of Novell

OpenWrt, the GPLed Linux distribution for wireless routers, is at RC4 and is nearing the 1.0 release. We looked at RC2 last August, but things have changed since then -- for the better.

Corel Corp. may have given up on bringing WordPerfect to Linux, but that doesn't mean Linux users have to give up on running WordPerfect on Linux.

Both universities and companies gain from collaborative research and development efforts in a number of areas, including open source software, but the challenge of agreeable terms for the work and its results often hang up innovation. A new set of collaborative principles produced by universities including Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Intel, aims to speed the process and keep the cutting edge work at the edge.

And what are the real stories on LaGrande, Trusted Computing, Viiv and Intel's DRM support?

Putting an open source-based laptop in the hands of millions of users around the world will help drive home the importance of non-proprietary development and applications, says Red Hat