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The promise of free and open source software (FOSS) in Islamic countries rests on issues such as helping build capacity. FOSS also provides greater flexibility, especially in terms of customization for local needs. In addition, FOSS can reduce the cost of deploying information and communications technologies (ICT) by permitting unlimited and free distribution of software, thus making it more affordable than comparable proprietary products. FOSS's security benefits take on added importance in the wake of recent reports that computers with Windows XP have been sending information, daily and without the knowledge of their owners, to Microsoft. Finally, FOSS will free Islamic countries from boycotts ad sanctions imposed by other countries and owners of proprietary software.

A coalition of public interest groups and academic privacy experts has released a public letter and background paper to the Canadian government stating their concerns about digital rights management (DRM) technologies and their legal status. The coalition has also started a Web site, IntellectualPrivacy.ca, to coordinate its efforts.

Linux Networx has announced that a Linux Networx LS Visual Supersystem has achieved several major visualization records. The system achieved a rendering rate of 1.5 billion polygons per second while running Computational Engineering International's (CEI) EnSight DR -- three times the previous rendering record.

As predicted, the open source community has come up with a way to convert VxWorks-based LinkSys wireless WRT54G routers to Linux. The process does not require hardware hacking, and installs a recent version of "DD-WRT micro."

JasperSoft Corporation, the leader in open source business intelligence, today announced JasperReports for SugarCRM, the first open source reporting engine for the SugarCRM Sugar Suite. The new solution, available for download on SugarExchange at http://www.sugarexchange.com, provides a library of pre-set, transactional reports that run with Sugar Suite, offering users the ability to easily generate customer interaction-based reports.

SAN DIEGO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Acucorp, Inc., a global provider of software solutions that modernize COBOL business systems, today announces the release of Version 7.2 of extend. With Version 7.2, organizations can significantly enhance their legacy applications and reduce development time by taking advantage of automated Java and .NET interoperability, MySQL® access, new compatibility enhancements, automatic code generation, and seamless updates to Acucorp's client-server technology.

Host of High Profile Open Source Projects Manages Systems for Developers Worldwide with Splunk

When software is open source, and perhaps free, IT managers may not feel under too much pressure to make sure that these software assets are managed as carefully as others.

Open source development experts Collabora and Nokia have joined forces to develop Telepathy, a real time communication framework.

ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 and ActiveGrid Server 2.0 Releases Enable Best-of-Breed Web 2.0 LAMP Technology on Java Infrastructure

The Eclipse Foundation will release software from ten of its projects in tandem next Friday, reflecting the maturity of Eclipse and open source software, in general. The Callisto release includes updates to the Eclipse platform, which other tools can plug into. In addition, there are updates to the business intelligence tools project, Eclipse Modeling Framework, the Web Tools Platform and others.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- SecuGen is pleased to announce the next release of its Software Developer Kit (SDK) Collection, which is used to build powerful biometric software applications that incorporate SecuGen's increasingly popular fingerprint recognition technology. The SecuGen SDK Collection Release 9 supports the widest range of platforms in the industry, including Java, Sun Solaris, Windows, Windows CE, Windows CE .NET, Linux (USB), DOS, Microsoft .NET, and Pocket PC 2003.
[Includes broader support for GNU/Linux variants as well - dcparris]

BioFoundry, a division of OSS Nokalva, announced the immediate availability of a BioAPI 2.0 Linux Reference Implementation. The BioFoundry BioAPI 2.0 Reference Implementation which fully implements the ISO BioAPI specification, ISO/IEC 19784-1 is now available for Windows and Linux. BioAPI 2.0 introduced several important new features, while extending the component model of BioAPI 1.1.

A rich open source platform on offer

MS Exchange it's healthy, but missing something. That, at least, appears to be the opinion of Andrew Oliver, project lead on the JBoss Collaboration Server team. And he has a point.

Comment of the day from the story, "How Apple and Microsoft are advancing desktop Linux"

eHealth News Portal is presenting a new Project named eHealth Directory EU. The goal of the eHealth Directory EU is to be most comprehensive directory of the eHealth (in special European) quality web sites.

Information overload is a serious problem for most users. We all have so many sources of information to deal with, it's hard to keep them under control. One way to help deal with information glut is to use a good RSS and Atom feed reader, such as Akregator.

One of the biggest hurdles for Linux migration is getting people who have been using Windows for years to cope with the transition to the new operating system, the nuances it has, and the problems associated with data migration.

RICHMOND, British Columbia, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Empower Technologies Corporation (Empower) is very pleased to announce that it has begun a joint international sales effort with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to promote its LDK591x family of LEOs (LinuxDA Embedded O/S) for TI's OMAP591x dual-core processor embedded software development kits to over 2,000 of the top universities and technical colleges worldwide. "We are delighted to have Empower Technologies join the efforts of the TI University Program to provide access to high technology equipment at educational prices, such as their LDK5910 and LDK5912 developer kits to engineering students, researchers and educators worldwide," said Cathy Wicks, worldwide university program manager, TI.