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One of the world's leading Linux and email consultancies, Chicago-area based RICIS, Inc.,(TM) will begin offering Scalix's Linux-based email and calendaring software to its retail, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, government, non-profit and education customers. RICIS's international network of resellers and consultants operates in 64 countries, giving Scalix customers throughout the world the sales, service and support assistance they need.

MEPIS' lightweight Linux distribution for older PCs is the first ordinary user version of the operating system to appear including the Debian Common Core.

TheOpenBSD project has a stable release once every 6 months, withOpenBSD 3.8 currently available forpre-order and scheduled for official availability on November 1'st, 2005. Each release of OpenBSD has its own song with a unique sound and theme [story], each available for download in ogg and mp3 format. The current release "song" is actually a four and a half minute radio play, titled "Hackers of the Lost RAID".

OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt [interview] talks about the upcoming release and the choice of theme, "many wonderful new things have made it into OpenBSD 3.8, but we wanted to focus on one particular thing -- our support for native free-software RAID management on at least one brand of RAID card, those made by AMI." OpenBSD users relying onami MegaRAID controllers will welcome 3.8's newbioctl command [story], a framework that will be expanded to support additional controllers in future releases.

The supplier of automotive safety systems will purchase 24,000 Dell desktop computers, laptops, and workstations, hundreds of servers, and dozens of storage systems.

This is the first release candidate in the 5.0 series. This release includes support for Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Information Schema (Data Dictionary), XA and more. Additional updates include:

While the Foundation wished the tightly integrated software would just go away and annoyed quite a few core developers with their original announcement, there's still not only a sizeable amount of users who like it, but developers as well who are willing to continue evolving it.

Microsoft and JBoss, kids from opposite sides of the open source tracks, are working together on interoperability of their server software to take on IBM. The companies will provide assistance and guidance for customers using JBoss with Microsoft's Active Directory, management of JBoss through Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), they will optimize the performance of EJB 3.0 and the Hibernate object relational/mapping architecture with Microsoft's MySQL database, and provide interoperability between .NET and open source Java web services.

New versions of ImpiLinux to be based on Ubuntu as Shuttleworth's venture capital business takes a majority stake in South African distro, plans to localise Ubuntu for the SA market.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has announced the adoption of the OpenDocument XML file format as its preferred method for storing government documents. In doing so, Massachusetts joins the Australian Federal Government in adopting this format for long-term electronic document storage. Open Source Victoria (OSV) recently called on all remaining Australian states and government agencies to also adopt this format as a viable approach to ensuring guaranteed access to public sector documents and data in perpetuity.

Microsoft called Massachusetts' bluff and lost. One of Microsoft's biggest mistakes in what will prove to be a critical turning point for the Redmond-based company is that it sent the wrong men to Massachusetts' last hearing before that state set a new IT policy into stone: one that essentially bumps MS-Office from its approved software list.

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Earlier this month, Justice Department officials handed out a free software program to police as part of a new crime prevention system. The CD-ROM allows regional law enforcement agencies to store crime-mapping data, pinpointing areas of past criminal activity and the locations of known domestic violence criminals, gangs and prostitution rings, in a repository for sharing with other jurisdictions. The system, called the Geospatial Repository for Analysis and Safety Planning (GRASP), would guide officers assigned to patrol roving perpetrators, such as the recent snipers and other serial offenders, by pinpointing optimal hiding locations and the spots of previous arrests.

nuBridges claims to offer brand new cost proposition for business-to-business (B2B) connectivity

Retailer Matalan says it is improving sales by being able to offer more promotions following a Linux-based till upgrade. The clothing and homeware company installed Linux-based electronic point-of-sale (Epos) technology in 190 stores earlier this year (Computing, 17 February), and following its success the firm is considering the use of handheld terminals in its shops. By opting for Linux, the retailer has been able to re-use old till hardware, extend their functions to wireless Epos termin

Ha Noi (VNA) - An international seminar on building cooperation via open-source for eGovernance (COSGOv Vietnam) opened in Ha Noi on Sept. 28 with about 300 international and local representatives of Vietnamese agencies and businesses throughout the country.

SAP aims to emulate the success of Sun Microsystems' Java Community Process (JCP) with an organization to extend its proprietary ERP architecture. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) giant has launched the Enterprise Services Community Process, encouraging developers in hardware, software and services companies to build applications for its Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA).

Security Technology Allows Hidden Word to Appear When Security Paper is Copied, Faxed or Scanned

Apple Computer's recent announcement that it will switch from IBM's processors to Intel's is just one in a stream of recent flip-flops rattling the computer industry. Consider also the hitherto nonprofit Mozilla establishing a for-profit subsidiary

The Government Open Source Conference 2005 (GOSCON 2005) will be held in Portland, Oregon on October 13-14.

Red Hat Inc has announced that version 5 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system is in the process of being certified with EAL4 of the Common Criteria security certification, even though the product is roughly a year away from general availability.

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