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In Australia, Firefox has also gain considerable penetration with 24.23%, while IE has slipped to 69.35%.

Monday’s 10Q filing (following the June 28th call) added another strong fundamental quarter to Red Hat’s (RHAT) upward trajectory.

The newest beta candidate of the Firefox 2.0 web browser has been online for only a day, but Yahoo has already made one of its technologies available to it.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries (MARDSF), one of the first Moroccan government departments to take advantage of free software, has just signed a contract with Liberty Tech to migrate all its servers to Mandriva Linux. Technical support will be handle by Mandriva and Liberty Tech via a yearly subscription to the Mandriva Corporate Club.

Among the features new to Firefox 2.0 are an in-line spell-checker, anti-phishing alerts, and restore-after-crash capability. But Mozilla says the beta is for developers, not end users.

We think it's more of a tweak than a revolution

The Free Software Foundation Europe has issued a statement welcoming the decision of the European Commission to fine Microsoft as a penalty for noncompliance. As you know, the Free Software Foundation Europe was invited by the European Commission to represent the interests of the Free Software movement in the case.

FSFE raises some arguments in its statement that I hadn't heard before, so I thought I should present them here to complete the picture. This is, after all, history we are living, and the explanation for Microsoft's alleged inability to comply earlier is intriguing. Also, it's important to remember who it was that did not quit and leave the field.

[Emphasis mine. -- grouch]

Jive Software, provider of easy-to-use, open-architecture, enterprise collaboration software, announced the availability of Wildfire 3.0 Enterprise and Open Source Editions.

Over the past few days, several release candidate builds of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 have been posted to the bonecho-beta1-candidates directory on http://ftp.mozilla.org. However, contrary to the indications given by some news outlets, Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 has not yet been released.

Red Flag Desktop Linux is the leading distribution in China and surrounding regions. Its goal is to provide the most professional desktop product available. It has more than an 80% desktop share in the Chinese linux market, and over one million copies are shipped each year with KDE as its only desktop environment.

Firefox has become quite a popular browser, quickly eclipsing its older brother Mozilla and gaining a 10 percent market share on the web. There is much anticipation for version 2.0, and the Mozilla organization has released a candidate for Beta 1 on their FTP site. Versions are available for Windows, Mac OS X (Universal Binary), and Linux.

Microtronix is shipping a line of processor modules based on FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), and targeting real-time embedded applications. The 2-inch-square Firefly II modules are powered by Altera Cyclone II FPGAs, have onboard RAM/Flash, and are available with NIOS II softcores, uClinux, and open source toolchains, Microtronix says.

Small businesses can benefit from switching to open source, says Danny Bradbury - just be careful which applications you choose to move.

Actuate 9 is a pivotal release for a company that continues to plot a best-of-breed course in a rapidly consolidating BI marketscape.

[Can somebody help me with the marketspeak? Is this dual-licensing or a binary product extending an open one? -- grouch]

Stanford Medical Informatics is going to host the ninth international conference on the Protege system at Stanford University, Stanford, California, between 23 and 26 July 2006. The Protege system is an open-source software platform that is increasingly being used to organise knowledge online and to develop complex computer systems that address problems ranging from cancer research to troubleshooting automotive assembly lines.

Today, July 11, is the day Microsoft is ending all support for Windows 98, 98SE, and ME. And, when they say ending all support, they mean ending all support: "Microsoft will end public and technical support by this date. This also includes security updates."

Seagate is shipping a Linux-based network-attached storage device claimed capable of providing data security to homes or small offices. The Maxtor Shared Storage II is a dual-drive appliance with gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, a capacity of 1,000GB, and DLNA-compliant media server software from Mediabolic.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has stated that the database company could soon be providing Linux support services to Red Hat customers.

IBM announced today that its collaborative software and email system Lotus Notes is now available for the Linux desktop. Lotus Notes on Linux is the first business-grade collaboration software of its kind to formally support the Linux operating system. Previous versions of Lotus Notes have been limited to Windows or Macintosh platforms.

[Available, but neither open source nor free/libre. -- grouch]

Mozilla's Firefox browser has gained more than a percentage point in global market share since May, a Dutch web analytics firm said Monday, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer dropped under the 80 percent mark in the US for the first time since it took on Netscape.