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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 is now available for download. Amongst other changes, this minor release includes fixes for a return receipt regression introduced in version 1.0.2 (bug 289091) and the Linux command line URL parsing security flaw.

It's extremely difficult to turn in a better financial performance than Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) did in its fiscal second quarter earnings report, which it released after the close of trading on Wednesday.

Gervase Markham has written a weblog post explaining the thinking behind the plan to automatically resolve some old unconfirmed bugs.

Mozilla Firefox developer Mike Connor has announced that two new code reviewers have been appointed to approve patches for Firefox and the XUL toolkit.

Gartner vice president Donald Feinberg debunks the term "business intelligence." For him business activity model (BAM) is what it is all about. BAM will enable real-time access to critical data including supplementary information to improve efficiency of the business.

Persona Software plans to ship in mid-November the second edition of its "fixed-mobile convergence" (FMC) suite, which lets dual-mode phone users roam between cellular and WiFi networks. Personal OnePhone 2.0 adds support for Linux, Symbian, and Windows Mobile 5.0 phones, along with security and regulatory compliance features.

Red Hat, IBM and Trusted Computer Solutions plan to put out a version of Linux the CIA can love late next year. This is something Microsoft has been promising for a decade, but as of the summer, had still failed to deliver.

Oracle, who have moved their whole business on to a Linux platform, is recommending that organisations in the Middle East do the same. In the Middle East, businesses are growing at a very fast rate, and they need to be ready for growth. Oracle believes that Linux is an ideal operating system in this kind of environment, since it "can be stripped down into components and packages and boots up quickly and you don't have the hidden taxation of Microsoft licensing fees." The company has also praised the level of security inherent in the Linux platform, claiming that it is much easier to build a secure infrastructure with Linux

Sun Microsystems debuted its UltraSparc IV+ servers last week, but IBM will counter that launch by announcing Unix servers with the new Power5+ processor next week, sources familiar with the plans said. Big Blue will tout the latest generation of its Unix servers on Oct. 4, refreshing its pSeries line with the new processor and a new product family name. The Power5+ is expected to arrive at a clock speed of 1.9GHz, the same as the top speed of its predecessor, the Power5.

Although the financial services industry has adopted Linux more slowly than first expected, Linux is now starting to hold more sway, even if often from behind the scenes, according to participants in this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York City.

The number of security holes that occur isn't as telling as how they're handled.

Recently, there was quite a flap about a Symantec study, which showed that—horrors!—Firefox had more security holes than Internet Explorer.

But, what did Symantec's Internet Threat Report really show?

I asked Elias Levy, aka Aleph One, former moderator of Bugtrac and today, a Symantec architect. He told me that Symantec reported on the number of flaws that had been confirmed by the vendor.

LENOVO Group Ltd, the world's third largest personal computer maker, is planning to offer the Linux operating system in consumer PCs it plans to sell in Singapore next year.

When I see or hear people knocking Linux for not having applications, I think of Jesse Vincent's Request Tracker (RT). When I first found out about RT, I thought I had found a few hundred thousand dollars laying on the street. That's the amount of money I would have had to spend on a proprietary trouble ticket tracking system comparable to ones from "big" commercial shops.

But whether or not the country's president, Alejandro Toledo, will sign the bill is still an open question.

If he does, Peru will join Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries in “actively moving toward the Linux operating system and other open-source alternatives that can mean millions of dollars in savings,” says AP.

According to Sirota, "Just substitute Goldman Sachs for First Jersey and Morgan Stanley for Stratton Oakmont and you have the very same manipulative unlawful conduct engaged in by the supposed "legitimate" firms but on a far larger financial scale...one CSFB IPO, VA Linux, ripped off more money from the public investor victims than all of the First Jersey and Stratton Oakmont fraudulent IPOs combined."

As Hurricane Rita hurled violent waves and howling winds at Galveston last week, a penguin at Moody Gardens was unruffled enough to lay an egg inside the glass aquarium pyramid.

It is Moody's first Gentoo penguin egg, a triumph for zookeeers even under ordinary circumstances, and it's expected to hatch around Halloween if all goes well.

Computer Associates has released a version of its Clarity IT governance software for the open-source Red Hat Linux operating system.

Technology stocks mostly headed north in afternoon trading Thursday, as Red Hat Inc. led a slate of advancers into positive territory.

Red Hat Inc. (RHAT) surged $4.15, or more than 25%, to $20.66. On Wednesday, the open-source software developer said greater corporate demand for Linux software pushed its second-quarter profit up by 40% to $16.7 million, or 9 cents a share. Analysts were looking for Red Hat to earn 7 cents a share.

With Red Hat in the lead, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPQ) rose 8.4 points, to 2,123. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ($SOX) and the Amex Computer Technology Index ($XCI) also edged into positive territory.

Red Hat has joined with IBM and software maker Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) to enter Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for evaluation under the Common Criteria security scheme. Red Hat expects its upcoming RHEL 5 to achieve Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4), the highest level generally achieved by commercial software. The Common Criteria is an ISO standard recognised by more than a dozen national governments as well as large businesses with stringent security requirements. The increasing levels of certification achieved by Linux distributions are an important milestone for the platform's maturity, because many organisations can't run software that doesn't have the right certification.

Microsoft Corp.'s bid to invalidate a patent covering Web applications was dealt a setback after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday upheld the patent owned by the University of California. The University of California sued Microsoft for infringing the patent, which permits the use of interactive applications such as looking at and buying merchandise on different Web pages, according to Trey Davis, director of special projects for the University of California. Microsoft uses the technology in its Explorer Web browser, Davis said.