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Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce its first blade servers that use Intel's Itanium processor on Tuesday in the US, sources familiar with the product plans said.

As one might expect, IBM tries to keep careful tabs on hot and emerging market segments across all of its product lines. The go-to guy for up-to-the-minute analysis data for the iSeries market is Chip McClellan, IBM's senior marketing manager for market segments. I talked with McClellan recently and learned a lot about where IBM and its business partners will be investing time and energy in the near future and what 2006 might look like.

A group of companies including PalmSource and France Telecom plan to launch an initiative in mid-November to standardize the applications layer of Linux-based mobile devices, representatives involved in the project said. The group will be called the Linux Phone Standardization Forum (LiPS).

This web site started several years ago, before the time of rss feeds. An ingenious programmer would grab headlines from web sites, parse the content and display it on his home page. You might like having all that news in one place. Also, notice how Lxer feeds take you right to the articles without forcing you to our web site first - kind of like free news as in freedom.

Open Source, Hibernate Key To Next-Gen Enterprise CMS?

You have your eye on that Media-Savvy Notebook for Christmas. You will even finance it if possible. It comes with Windows XP Media center software. Prices seem more reasonable than they have in years.

Abstinence is the best cure for your disease. Form a 12-step program if necessary or have an intervention: Notebooks Anonymous. Visit a mental health care professional. Otherwsie, in January, you'll experience buyer's remorse.

eWeek has a nice article on the upcoming GPL version change to 3.0. Issues addressed are the actual nuts and bolts of hammering out the details, the people involved, and how it will be presented to the public.

[ED: This article and others from SYS-CON have come under the scrutiny of our editors. In fact, a message to me from one of our top people said that this article was pretty good but if he were Editor-in-Chief, he would nuke it because of the sound.

In fact, I feel the same way. We thought we would leave it up to you to decide. Should we nuke SYS-CON articles because of the streaming content? Or should we put up a warning? -tadelste]

The LinuxWorld SYS-CON newsdesk writes; "I've been suspicious of professional certification exams for a long time. Part of it is that I've heard a lot of flack about Microsoft certifications. Specifically, that the best thing they test is how well you study for Microsoft certification. For that reason, I've resisted taking any of the Linux certification exams. Although I have 15 years worth of experience in Unix-related operating systems, I've always suspected that I wouldn't do well on a certification exam because I wouldn't have studied the specific exam prep materials."

Read the rest of the story at LinuxWorld Magazine.

If you try to find a Linux compatible wireless card, you might find that a challenge. I shop around frequently and haven't seen any "Linux Compatible" stickers on wireless card boxes. Recently, I bought one on eBay and it had an entry in a Linux compatibility list. It didn't work. The manufacturer kept the model number but changed the chipset.

In attempting to make it work, I discovered that in Ubuntu's new release 5.10, they've added a utility that makes it easy to get off-the-shelf wireless cards to work. Now, that's the way Linux innovation can trump other OSes. Here's a short article demonstrating this ingenious tool.

Linux Journal's"Señor Editor" recounts the latest Geek Cruise's visits to resorts later trashed by Hurricane Wilma.

Nick at Threadwatch is all giddy about a new Firefox extension for the SEO crowd put out by WebmasterBrain. The extension gives you the ranking of a site which a term is linked to and the amount of links indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN pointing to that target site.

Linux kernel 2.6.14 is out, the fourth major kernel version of 2005, and chock full of improvements, including driver updates, new virtual filesystems and wireless connectivity improvements.

The 2.6.14 kernel comes just two months after the 2.6.13 kernel was released at the end of August. This release also marks the beginning of a new development process for kernel development.

"As per the new merge policies that were discussed during LKS {Linux Kernel Summitt} in Ottawa earlier during the summer," Linus Torvalds wrote in a mailing list posting. "I'm going to accept new stuff for 2.6.14 only during the first two weeks after 2.6.13 was released."

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Justsystems Corporation (JASDAQ: 4686), a leading enterprise software provider in Japan, announced today that xfy Basic Edition 1.0 will be available starting October 31 for the U.S. market. xfy Basic Edition 1.0, an integrated XML application development and runtime environment, along with the xfy Developer's Toolkit 1.0, which enables the generation of XVCDs (XML data processing sequence programs), can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.xfytec.com. xfy Basic Edition 1.0, serves as a tool for creating and editing XML documents.

This Month in SVN for October looks at KOffice development. "While much of the rest of KDE is in feature freeze preparing for the imminent release of KDE 3.5, KOffice developers are starting to work hard for their 1.5 release, scheduled for between KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.

The GoblinX LiveCD Linux distribution is celebrating its first birthday today. "One year of life, one year of devoted efforts to make it a great liveCD distro and also as good as possible," says Flavio de Oliveira of the GoblinX project. GoblinX is a bootable LiveCD based on Slackware Linux.

Overview: Considering a move to Linux? Before you do, find out how you can overcome the "Linux Deployment Speed Bump."

Many organizations are considering a move to Linux to help improve the stability, security, and total cost of ownership of their enterprise applications, but few realize that there are a number of deployment and maintenance challenges that impact the success of their Linux projects. And even fewer realize that an option exists that can eliminate these challenges and further reduce the TCO of their Linux projects.

A provider of configurable, licensable CPU/DSP core IP (intellectual property) for system-on-chip (SoC) processors is adding SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) instruction support. ARC's forthcoming Multimedia Subsystem will support 104 new 128-bit-wide SIMD instructions that can reduce power and improve performance in mobile applications by exploiting the parallelism inherent in multimedia applications, the company says.

StorageQuest Inc. today announced it has certified its REFLECTOR Backup and Archival Software with the recently introduced Bravo XR Disc Publisher from Primera Technology, Inc. This is the first DVD backup solution to challenge the low-to-mid range tape autoloaders providing an archival and backup solution for compliancy with an industry standard TRUE WORM media.

With the upcoming rollout of NightStar LX, Concurrent Computer Corp. is bringing tools first created for internal use to outside Linux application developers who are willing to turn to commercial products to get the capabilities they need.

Centeris Corp, a new systems management company focused on managing Linux within Microsoft Corp Windows-based networks, has announced its official launch with $5m in Series A funding.