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In this GRIDtoday Q&A, Hing-Yan Lee, deputy director of Singapore's National Grid Office, discusses his organization's work to establish a nationwide cyberinfrastructure with the purpose of improving economic and technological competitiveness. Lee is presenting this week at the Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo in Biopolis, Singapore.

Merlin is a server-based database monitoring and advisory service which continually scans a user's database network for any likely system crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities, the source said. Under development at MySQL for 22 months, Merlin is due to debut late in the fourth quarter of this calendar year or early in the first quarter of 2007. It's unclear whether Merlin contains any third-party software or if MySQL developers have modelled the offering on any existing database monitoring and advisory service.

The Free Software Foundation released the first drafts for the next versions of GNU's Free Documentation Licenses. Two drafts were released; one for the GFDL v2 and another for a simpler variant of the FDL.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Solidcore Systems, Inc., the leading provider of change control solutions, today announced that Bob Vieraitis has been appointed vice president of marketing. Vieraitis will assume worldwide marketing responsibilities to drive revenue growth and accelerate the market adoption of Solidcore's change control software.

Native Object Persistence Solution Eliminates Object-relational Mismatch with Higher Performance in 19 of 20 Test Cases

It seems most PC users have heard of Linux and, at the very least, the idea of open source software has piqued their curiosity. Here, we explain open source in greater detail so, if you are interested in getting started with Linux, now is the time to give it a try.

In a roundtable this afternoon at the MIT Emerging Techologies Conference, panelists agreed that updates to browsers are constantly breaking Web applications, causing endless headaches. Both Internet Explorer and Safari came in for criticism. The exception was Firefox, an open source browser that adheres more closely to standards.

In the middle of the yearly KDE conference aKademy, the KOffice team has released the first release candidate of version 1.6. This release follows the earlier beta according to the schedule.

Shares of Red Hat plunged 23% in afternoon trading Wednesday after the open source software maker posted disappointing forward guidance.

Novell announced this week that it plans to offer support for Linux virtualization -- including instances of its rival's Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 -- with its Xen virtualization technology included in Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10.

A Google search for “open source” will give you 1,660,000,000 results, a number that increases every day. This says something about the escalating popularity of open source as a software idea in the digital era. This should also give you a reason to read Open Source and the Law by Priti Suri and Associates.

Firefox 2 moved closer to its final release yesterday when Mozilla unveiled the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of its popular open-source web browser.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Red Hat Inc. (RHAT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year," Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an interview.

Version 5.0 of GroundWork Monitor, an open-source-based server and network monitoring system, was released last week.

Symantec's bi-annual Internet threat report shows vulnerabilities for IE, Firefox, and Safari have increased in the last six months.

The manufacturer of Maryland's new electronic voter registration machines said yesterday that technicians have fixed the software glitch that caused machines in every precinct to freeze and reboot during the Sept. 12 primary election but acknowledged that two other flaws remain undiagnosed.

IBM said it is considering a plan to add Red Flag Linux support for its approximately 300 software applications as part of its long-term strategy in China. The open source software distribution from Beijing-based Red Flag Software would be the third Linux system to win support from IBM. The firm currently supports systems from market leaders Red Hat and Novell.

University of Connecticut Health Center has chosen to adopt OpenClinica Enterprise for its clinical research studies. OpenClinica is an open source web-based software platform that enables sponsors and investigators to manage clinical research data in multi-site studies.

Cubic Compass Software (CCS), a provider of enterprise portal software, announced the availability of an open source portal toolkit for salesforce.com's suite of on-demand CRM applications. The portal is tightly integrated with Salesforce to give Sales, Marketing, and Support professionals a view of all customer interactions online within Salesforce and provides their customers with self-service access to account information.

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