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BURLINGTON, Mass. – OpenLink Software is now offering an Open Source Edition of its industry-acclaimed Universal Server, OpenLink Virtuoso.

Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, which went prime time late last month, has proven to perform well in server and developer roles. Now, eWEEK Labs says, Fedora has matured enough to suitable for use as a mainstream corporate desktop.

Salesforce.com is launching a hosted service bringing enterprise applications to wireless devices following its $15m acquisition of partner Sendia, announced on Tuesday. The hosted customer relationship management (CRM) vendor has announced AppExchange Mobile, which it said would allow more than 60 applications on the company's existing AppExchange service to be "quickly and easily" extended to mobile devices.

Leading online retailer honored for using IBM's System i to help achieve high website availability for Independent Business Owners.

Although it wasn't the largest confab of its kind, last week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston turned out plenty of news. This week, we're pleased to bring you several notable audio interviews from the floor of the event, courtesy of The Linux Link Tech Show.

The wireless space has increasingly been the site of bloody standards battles. In committee after committee, rival camps vying for victory creatie independent organizations outside the IEEE process to gather allies and cheerlead from the sidelines.

BOSTON - Open source business intelligence (BI) can flip a project budget on its head, according to a presenter at a recent LinuxWorld session.

...the results of its newest survey on Open Source and Linux development show a market that is deeply fragmented with no clear leader. When over 400 Open Source developers were asked to name the company that provides the best OSS offerings, Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sun, and several others were named but no company was mentioned by more than 12% of the developers. Red Hat, mentioned by 11.7% and Novell, 10.5%, were the two most commonly named followed by IBM and Sun.

The KOffice team is proud to announce KOffice version 1.5. With this release, KOffice starts its ascent into the office suite hall of fame. This version sports OpenDocument as the default file format, accessibility, a new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. You can read more about it in the press release and the full announcement. Packages are available for Kubuntu and SUSE.

From the article: "KOffice was the first to support, and now with 1.5 the second office suite to announce full support for OpenDocument (ODF) as the default file format." I don't mean to be nitpicky, but wouldn't this just be the second iteration of ODF support? It just comes across as though there are two different suites involved. - dcparris

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-Xchange Inc. announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named Open-Xchange Server a finalist in eWEEK's Sixth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Email Management & Security category. Winners will be announced in May and honored at a special ceremony on May 23 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the June 19th edition of eWEEK and at http://www.eweek.com/.

Sun Fire(TM) x64 Servers and Sun Ultra(TM) x64 Workstations, Boosted by Solaris(TM) 10 and Sun(TM) Studio 11, Deliver 16 New World Records

Open Source visionary entrepreneur, JBoss (www.jboss.com) founder and CEO Marc Fleury will deliver the SOA Enterprise Open Source keynote on Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at 8:00 am.

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Elemental Security, Inc., the award-winning pioneer of new technology in enterprise information security, today announced that its Elemental Security Platform (ESP) v2.0 has been certified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) for computing platforms supported by the latest release of Elemental's policy and risk management product. In addition, ESP v2.0 is the industry's first product to complete the CIS' rigorous certification process for the IBM UNIX (AIX) and Sun Solaris 10 platforms.

Red Hat and Sun Solaris are included in the mix. - dcparris

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this year will get some open-source competition. Linux proponents plan to hold the first-ever FreedomHEC conference for Linux hardware engineers immediately following the Microsoft gathering in late May.

You just bought a new PC. Good for you. But don't get too excited, the job's not done. You need software to get full functionality and good security on your PC. You want to create and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents, right? Don't forget the antivirus and antispyware programs.

Boston, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 10, 2006 - A global program to help customers plan for, accelerate and optimize their deployments of Linux solutions has been developed by Intel Corporation and open source and Linux provider, Red Hat.

Hong Kong-based systems integrator Quataris is shipping a flat-panel PC/TV that runs a multimedia OS based on SUSE Linux. The QuaNext PC is based on a Pentium 4, and has a built-in, widescreen 19-inch LCD flat-panel display, along with a PAL-format (European) TV receiver.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAlliance (http://www.idealliance.org), an established industry organization that develops, educates and validates best practices in publishing and information technology, announced today the keynote speakers for XTech 2006 (http://www.xtech-conference.org/), the premier European conference for developers and managers working with XML and web technologies. Industry leaders will present keynotes on topics including new and emerging web services for developers, building software with human intelligence, and current web technologies. Mozilla Corporation and W3C are co-hosts for XTech 2006, and current sponsors of the event include Justsystem, IBM and Adobe. XTech 2006 will be held May 16-19 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Boston, Mass. -- The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), which makes it easy to connect thin client terminals to a Linux server, announced the 4.2 release of the software at the LinuxWorld Conference& Expo. The new release adds improved local device support, reduces memory requirements, and offers scanner and multi-head support and a 2.6 kernel.

Microsoft's Linux expert has launched a company sanctioned blog in an outreach attempt to the Open Source community but all it seems to attract are irate anti-Microsoft posters.

Well, it's difficut to resist the temptation to hit such a vulnerable target. I think that, before I let my server touch their port 25, they need to kill that infestion of viruses and worms that causes their anti-competitive behavior. And ridding themselves of the bug(s) that spews forth all those lies about GNU/Linux and FOSS licenses wouldn't hurt, either. Then, and maybe then, I'll connect to their port 25. - dcparris