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With more than 200,000 downloads in just over a year, the Zend Framework for writing Web applications in PHP has emerged as an enterprise challenger to Java and .NET.

Company plans to ship its next major version of the operating system on February 28, two months after its earlier deadline.

Companies such as Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies have been taking advantage of Microsoft's recent agreement with Novell.

[Aren't these the same companies that have been taking advantage for a couple months now? Is this really news? - dcparris]

Suggestion: First, I've mailed the WAS CE product team asking for a short developerWorks article to address this configuration question. In the interim, you should know:

Medsphere's open-source efforts has become mired in a lawsuit over the issue of whether the company's founders had the right to release some of its code under the GPL.

Opinion: Fresh from his positive experience of installing Sarge on an old home server, the editor of DesktopLinux.com attempts to install an Etch desktop on an old Thinkpad. How does it turn out? Surprisingly well!

BaseTen is a new, open-source Cocoa database framework for working with PostgreSQL databases. BaseTen has been designed with familiar, Core Data-like semantics and application program interfaces. To get the word out about the development environment, and to build a library of applications that show off its capabilities, BaseTen is running a competition for the coolest OSS app for its framework.

Latest version endows virtual machines with a graphical interface, an essential feature for personal computers.

"Relax. I believe Microsoft has no intention of enforcing this patent against anyone," says Microsoft executive Don Dodge

[Sounds like a 'dodge' to me. Microsoft consistently threatens lawsuits pertaining to their patents - and they want us to believe this? - dcparris]

Microsoft has two years in which to convince Amsterdam city authorities that it can offer better value for money on the desktop than open source alternatives.

LXer Feature: 28-Dec-2006

Peking University recently released a program to convert office documents between OpenDocument Format and the Specification for the Chinese office file format based on XML (UOF for short).

Opinion: So, that's why people are saying nice things about Vista.

France-based Mandriva Linux and a local partner, Datacomms-Genesys, on Dec. 21 established a subsidiary company -- Mandriva Mexico -- to market its desktop and server operating systems in the Central American country. The office will be located at Datacomms-Genesys' complex in Mexico City.

The VectorLinux team last week released version 5.8 of its Slackware 11.0-based distribution, which includes a 2.6.18 kernel and the XFce desktop environment. The release features fully-working browser plugins -- including Flash 9, Java, mp3, Real and Windows media -- as well as DVD playback, the team said.

One of the virtues of Linux is that there's pretty much a version of it for everybody. From regular Ubuntu to Gentoo to Berry Linux to Fedora to Damn Small Linux, there's something out there for virtually all types of Linux users. So I was intrigued to discover that there is a Christian version of the extremely popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The Executive Summary: The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history

[While the paper is obviously about Windows Vista, there are some important implications for the FOSS community, especially with respect to FOSS hardware drivers. - dcparris]

Red Hat Inc. shares climbed as much as 19% Friday after the No. 1 provider of Linux software reported a quarterly profit and outlook that topped Wall Street forecasts.

Oracle said during its Q2 conference call that people downloaded 9,000 copies of its freebie indemnified Unbreakable Linux

2.4 kernel maintainer Willy Tarreau [story] announced the release of the 2.4.34 stable Linux kernel, "2.4.34 brings the usual bunch of security fixes, bugfixes, and adds support for gcc 4 to x86, x86-64 and sparc64, thanks to Mikael Pettersson's work." Willy also released the 2.4.33.7 kernel with a security fix added in 2.4.34-rc3. He went on to note some caveats:"One user reported regular panics with aacraid since 2.4.32, so there's no regression here. I will seek for some help to get this fixed in 2.4.35. I also get reports of people getting trapped by NIC vendors who suddenly change their ethernet chips with no big warning notice. The i82546GB chip which replaced the i82546EB in e1000 cards come to mind. It is not supported by the driver in 2.4.34 but I will try to solve this in 2.4.35 (right now, you have to download the vendor's drivers when you replace a NIC). Another driver should get some lifting : skge. I have got a few reports of problems with the vendor's sk98lin driver and I noticed the same problems at work (UDP becoming silent on NFS server)."

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