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It is no secret that Novell has been losing legacy Netware customers. It is also no secret that incoming CEO Ron Hovsepian has been directed by the board to turn things around quickly – some say within six months. The question is whether putting a super salesman like Hovsepian in charge of the show is the answer or does the problem lay with Novell’s overall business strategy.

Network Appliance recently introduced an operating system to power its storage for high-performance Linux computing clusters in large-scale computational systems.

Mike Rudolph To Lead The SourceForge.net Marketplace Effort

Forging ahead with the same business model for more than 12 years might seem old hat to some in the constantly changing world of information technology, but business customers say Red Hat wears it well.

The issue of open source languages and the availability of development tools is a thought process I was having the other day. One of the key tools in the GNU space is the GNU C compiler. Up until its availability on Unix (long before the Linux kernel came on the scene), developing on Unix was limited to whatever tools were made available by the Unix vendor.

India, once seen as fertile ground for open-source software, has yet to embrace the development model in the way many hoped it would. As a developing country with an emerging pool of talented, industrious programmers, India was once seen as a natural fit for open-source software. But today, while the country has software developers by the thousand, only a fraction of them do work in the open-source area.

Originally designed for the GNU Image Manipulation Program, the GTK graphical application development toolkit provides an extensive assortment of widgets and controls for cross-platform software construction. The latest version, GTK 2.10.0, has been officially released. With plenty of exciting new features for users and developers, GTK 2.10.0 is a significant improvement over previous versions. The popular, cross-platform toolkit is widely used on a variety of platforms, and provides the foundation for the GNOME desktop environment. Available under the GNU's highly permissive LGPL license, GTK has been adopted by numerous proprietary and open source software developers.

[Updated 5:20 P.M.] -- Opengear is shipping 48-Volt "telecom" versions of two inexpensive console servers based on Linux and other open source software. Network service providers can use the 16-port CM4116-48V and 48-port CM4148-48V to securely manage remote servers, switches, routers, VoIP gateways, and DSLAMs, via in- or out-of-band networks, according to the company.

Search engine optimization hall-of-famer Aaron Wall has developed an intensive SEO extension for Mozilla's Firefox browser. The tool pulls data from a number of sources to offer search engine marketers "a more holistic view of the competitive landscape."

If you are at all like me, you spend far too much time trying to personalize your computer. You can download screensavers, mouse pointers or different gadgets like stock tickers or weather watchers for your desktop. Personally, I like to find at least one new desktop wallpaper each week from my favourite photo sharing Flickr.

SoC (system-on-chip) vendor Mobilic is shipping a "production-ready development kit" for portable media devices based on embedded Linux. The MDK730 kit uses the company's ARM9-based MP730 multimedia applications processor, and has a total BOM (bill-of-materials) cost of about $70, the company says.

LONDON — Shares in Norwegian mobile Linux software specialist Trolltech rose by nearly 10 percent on the Oslo stock exchange as the company completed its IPO, which was nearly two times oversubscribed.

Hardly a week goes by without another browser vulnerability being reported. One security researcher is going to take it a step further this month and by releasing a new vulnerability every day.

Comodo, a provider of Identity and Trust Assurance Management Solutions, has released Zero Touch Linux (ZTL), a complete suite of back office server applications centrally controlled by a user friendly Web-based interface. ZTL was developed by Comodo's Positive Software Division (PSOFT), specialists in Web hosting and server automation.

[Warning - beware the pop-ups, even in Firefox - dcparris]

IBM's DeveloperWorks website has published a concise, informative overview of the Linux kernel's scheduler. The article first looks at schedulers in general, and the limitations of the 2.4 kernel's 0(n) scheduler, before turning to Ingo Molnar's 0(1) scheduler, and describing some of the problems it solves.

eHarmony.com chooses open source software for its quality, not for its price, says Mark Douglas, vice president of engineering and operations for the popular online dating site.

The "four horsemen" of commoditisation - service oriented architecture (SOA), open source, software as a service and offshoring - will lead to cheaper prices and a radical change in enterprise software landscape of the future, according to analyst Forrester.

Open Source vendor Opengear released two new management products designed specifically for the toughest telecommunications environments. Opengear’s new CM4116-48V and CM4148-48V models enable telecommunications and network service providers to securely manage their mission critical servers, switches, routers, Vo-IP gateways and DSLAMs using one appliance. These management solutions provide secure authenticated remote access to the infrastructure, whether or not the main in-band network is operational.

Novell today announced two new innovative programs for Linux training designed to promote education around open source. Novell unveiled its “Train the Teacher” series, the industry's first free week-long boot camp for Linux* educators. In addition, Novell is the first Linux vendor to partner with Thomson Course Technology, the world's leading technology education publishers, with the release of a series of new joint SUSE Linux Enterprise courseware offerings. As a result, students and teachers interested in Linux have compelling new options for building their expertise on the increasingly popular open source platform.

The GeoServer Project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.2. We know it's not a very glamorous number - if our project members were focused on marketing instead of building great software we'd probably call it GeoServer XT, or perhaps GeoServer: Google Earth edition, to more accurately reflect what we've been up to. But we think it's a pretty great release.