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  LXer Feature: 16-Jan-06

With OASIS ODF member Corel chanting a Microsoft mantra on OpenDocument - that is, they'll support it if they see customer demand - Linux News wonders aloud if a "family" connection between Corel and Microsoft exists.

InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Awards Honors Powerful File-Serving Combination of HP Servers and PolyServe Clustering Software

Microsoft apparently struggled with the European Commission deadline for delivering documentation associated with their server protocols. So, Microsoft characteristically offered something else and the EU wants to think about it.

Take off your hard hat because this article speaks favorably about Linux as in Linux has finally made it to major media. This article made the cover of Information Week on January 23, 2006. Our hats off to Babcock and Co. for finally "getting it".

US trained technology managers proliferate developing countries. They worked in the US, they came back and they're bringing GNU/Linux with them. As for Microsoft, vendors don't even talk about them these days.

[opionion]Google's recent decision to comply with the Chinese Governments "requirements" have brought things to a head for me. I'm not going to use Google anymore. I don't want anything to do with a company that is prepared to accommodate repression like this.

In the January 23 issue of Information Week, K.C. Jones provides an attempt to analyze RMS using psycho-babble. While some might consider K.C. Jones a bit foolish for taking this approach, from a journalistic point of view he wrote an excellent article and Free software got some serious media coverage. You might find this portrayal of RMS informative and then some.

I spent two days this past week at Microsoft Search Champs, a conference where invitees make suggestions for their search tools and other MSN offerings. Microsoft paid for everything and picked our brains concerning a lot of different topics, some under NDA and some public.

Why would I do this, and why would they want me there? I've been associated with the free software movement for at least ten years. But while I value openness, I also value functionality. If you browse my articles and blogs about Microsoft, you'll find about as many positive references as negative ones. I appreciate new solutions and technologies from all vendors, and I think one company's success will provide a model and a motivation for others to move forward.

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Andy Oram is an editor for O'Reilly Media, specializing in Linux and free software books, and a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. His web site is http://www.praxagora.com/andyo.

How to get started with GNOME monkeyshines using the open-source .NET system Mono.

Novell announced it will bundle support and training offerings with its market leading SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, making it easier than ever for small and medium sized businesses to leverage the power of Linux*.

Though it was overshadowed last week by news that Google is going to censor its Chinese search engine and protect the privacy of pedophiles in the United States, another bit of Googlish news caught my eye: The company is funding a big, new academic effort at Harvard and Cambridge to combat spyware and adware, which the new organization has decided to call "badware." Read about it at the new Web site, stopbadware.org.

According to the site, "StopBadware.org is a 'Neighborhood Watch' campaign aimed at fighting badware." It says the organization "will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers make better choices about what they download onto their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware."

One of the Apache projects does all the hard work for you and makes it very easy to create, read and update Excel, and soon, Word files. This project is called POI. It has already been in development for several years, starting in April 2001. It is currently in version 2.5.

A week ago, many of the best and brightest of the free software movement, with more than a few of our lawyers, descended upon MIT for the widely anticipated release of the first discussion draft of the third version the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). Executive Vice Presidents of Fortune 500 companies, heads of global business units, general counsels, and many of free software's most clearly recognizable faces peppered the crowd. Everyone knew that something historic, and very important, was about to happen.

OpenOffice.org Writer uses templates to store the initial formatting of a document. If you plan to use Writer to write your next book, you will need a good book template, or rather several, for the different components of your book. This article walks you through the process of creating a complex book template that includes front matter (copyright, acknowledgments, and preface), table of contents, chapters, appendixes, and an alphabetical index -- all assembled into a master document.

The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company. The acronym refers to the foundational foursome of the open-source movement: The Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and, collectively, the Perl, PHP and Python programming languages. Development tools such as Eclipse and application servers such as JBoss have also gained popularity — and trust — especially now that major vendors such as IBM, BEA Systems and Borland have adopted or supported them commercially. But what about the next step up the software ladder? Is open source ready for ERP, business intelligence or CRM? Ready or not, it’s happening; the first industrial-grade applications in these areas are now emerging.

Parsix GNU/Linux is a new twist on an old theme. It is one of a number of remixes of the Kanotix/Knoppix line, but with some very interesting differences. First off is the fact that it is centered around, and tailored to users of Persian languages and keyboards, while also being very usable in English. The next big difference is that Parsix uses the Gnome desktop (2.12.2) instead of the standard KDE Desktop found in most of these remastered distros. But is there more to Parsix than just a different DE and language? The answer to that question is a definite “yes”.

Last week's newsletter pointing to Novell's "Bridging NetWare skills to Novell OES for Linux" training prompted reader Mike Ossing to drop me a note with his impressions of the course. Ossing had gone through it last fall when it was first announced. His impression was that Novell "...barely scratched the surface, and if I hadn't had the chance to previously play with the Novell [Linux] desktop and the SuSE 9.2 install, with my 'Dummies' book close at hand, I'd have been a little lost. Maybe a lot lost. I think I'd classify them more as an overview course. I got about 60% of the questions right the first time through."

Platforms Feature Both Single and Dual Core Processors

ZFS is the filesystem Sun Microsystems began shipping in November with its operating systems to provide data management and protection from the loss of data due to file corruption.

Qlusters takes its server management automation platform to the open-source community to fill a void that executives saw in the market for an open-source server automation tool.