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Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard's Linux vice-president, yesterday slammed the open source community's complex licensing schemes, suggesting that there are too many open source licences for developers to manage properly.

He said there were currently "58 open source licences in use," and the task of keeping up with them created many difficulties for open source developers. Its something of a personal crusade for Fink, who said, "I've spent a lot of my time stopping people from creating more [licences]", before going on to say, "[HP has] never ever created an open source licence. If we never had to, why do you?"

Getting Ubuntu Back The first of a series that begins with the recovery methods employed to revise grub to show and boot Ubuntu Breezy that resided on a second disc.

The University Of Southern Mississippi has a Linux Install Fest - Get the Worms out, a C.S. student sees the light.

[Must be a date error: Published 30th of March for an event on the 25th of the same month. I know things are slow down there, but one needs a time machine to attend.]

Tradeware Global is a financial services company that allows securities brokers to provide direct market access to their clients. It currently handles 5% of all transactions in the New York and American stock exchanges. Tradeware is about halfway through with an infrastructure migration that is moving the company's 100+ servers off of Solaris and onto Red Hat Linux.

Big Blue says partners can earn up to $20,000 by getting Microsoft Exchange customers to switch to Lotus Domino on Linux.L

Dubbed "Migrate to the Penguin," the latest IBM incentive plan, to be announced later on Thursday, is an expansion of its Move2Lotus program, which is aimed at winning over third-party consultants and software resellers that work with Microsoft's Exchange.

As predicted by <i>Tectonic</i> early in February, HP South Africa has officially announced the release of a range of notebooks that will run the Linspire Linux operating system.

Middleware statement: JBoss is ramping up its challenge to closed-source web servers and messaging middleware with updated editions of its software for enterprise IT infrastructures.

Red Hat Inc is to increase its focus on software vendor and enterprise developers via enhancements to its tools portfolio, a new portal, and the delivery of its first certified software stacks.

Last week, Microsoft yet again pushed back the release of Vista by a few weeks. The latest delay likely will lead to further discontent by enterprise Windows users, who will look to open-source software such as Linux as an alternative, Szulik said.

A high-profile delay to Munich's Linux migration in 2004 was actually caused by those campaigning against software patents, rather than the shadowy hand of Microsoft, according to one insider

Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration, was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners.

Everywhere you look today, vendors are embracing open source. IBM, Computer Associates International Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and many other industry heavyweights have contributed large bodies of code to the open source community. Oracle has purchased two open source software companies in recent months. Even Microsoft is cozying up with JBoss Inc. and SugarCRM Inc. to improve interoperability with Windows. In addition, dozens of small companies have moved their products into the open source domain over the last couple of years.

This is certainly a heartening trend, but the cynic in me says to be careful. This apparent altruism is also tinged with self-interest.

The UK's Open Source Academy has launched a new Certified Open branding scheme that it hopes will enable organizations to judge the openness of their potential suppliers and their own internal skills competency.

The CSIR's Meraka Institute has developed an open source IVR designer for Asterisk, DialogPalette, which it hopes will make IVRs more locally and culturally relevant.

Novell today announced that Finland’s Ministry of Defence has selected Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as its platform for critical process management and documentation applications, messaging services, and Intranet portal. The Ministry tapped Novell's Linux platform for its proven reliability, high availability and security.

Novell used its BrainShare conference last week to elaborate on its product migration path to Linux, and included an assurance to customers that it will support NetWare well into the next decade.

Conference Report: FOSS Means Business, Belfast

The FOSS Means Business Conference was the result of a north-south, cross-border initiative to bring those interested in free and open-source software together for the first time. The conference was held to host talks by two of the free software world's patron saints, Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman.

Joris Komen has a reputation for being the tough-talking, no-holds-barred director of Schoolnt Namibia. Over the years he has taken the battle to provide Namibian children with computers head on, at times ruffling more than a few proprietary feathers with his promotion of free and open source software. Which is appropriate coming from a biologist who used to work with birds in a museum.

With the competition to find the best creative ideas to help advertise its aims in full swing, the Mozilla Foundation has revealed it may screen Firefox adverts in cinemas or on national television.

LIKE many top executives, James R. Lavoie and Joseph M. Marino keep a close eye on the stock market. But ... don't worry much about Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange.

[T]hey focus on an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement.

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