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Mozilla-Based HTML Editor Challenges Dominance of Microsoft FrontPage

I'm excited to announce that our first Thunderbird 1.0 Release Candidate is now available for testing. 1.0RC1 includes lots of bug fixes and improvements for features like saved search folders, the RSS reader, mail migration, and message grouping. The default themes have both been updated with new improved artwork as well.

Last fall Allan Grant was very upset following a meeting with his database vendor. Grant is the CIO of a large trading group with over $1 billion in sales. The database vendor had just completed a license audit and had concluded that the maximum allowed number of concurrent users had been exceeded by one for a three-minute interval during the week-long audit. Also the vendor had concluded that Grant's setup should henceforth be regarded as a "multiplexing" setup, even though it had not changed since the previous audit. To overcome both issues the vendor was proposing a new licensing agreement which would more than quadruple the total license cost.

Last Saturday was an important and busy day for Italian Tux fans. The fourth edition of the Italian National Day of Linux and Free Software took place in more than 100 cities all across the country. Not bad for a young, fully volunteer event.

In the field, vsftpd has been demonstrated to support thousands of concurrent users and achieve bandwidth speeds in excess of peer products, such as BSD-ftpd and Red Hat's enterprise-level TUX. Ultimately, vsftpd demands an investment of time and knowledge from an admin, but in return is capable of providing significant rewards — namely, peace of mind and high performance.

Linux clusters are emerging as the de facto choice for providing enterprise-level scalability, performance and availability for data warehousing solutions at a low cost.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may soon have some full-time, paid staff including an executive director, according to the organisation's co-founder. The ASF currently runs on a volunteer model, and any change to this strict philosophy will raise eyebrows right across the IT industry.

Since I am always looking for Linux distributions that are suitable as Windows replacements, I decided to give Xandros a try. After spending some time with it, I've written up a review. Find out if this Windows replacement achieves its lofty goals. Check it out at Tuxme.com.

Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, released in August, has received certification from a key software partner, Oracle, a database market leader with an aggressive Linux alliance effort. Oracle 9i and 10g are certified to work on SLES 9 running on servers using 32-bit x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the company said Tuesday.

Linux has gained further credibility in the enterprise after most IT managers said that they would consider the open source operating system as a platform for email. Over half of respondents to a recent survey indicated that they would seriously consider switching to Linux messaging over the next two years, if there was no disruption to end users.

Reaffirming its position in the Linux space, HP today showcased its strategy for the open source community in India at Linux Bangalore/2004. HP is the Platinum Sponsor of the event.

IBM has written a time saving BASH script that can change the system name and network address of Linux systems. This configurator was created for IBM administrators and other internal use, but has now been released for download.

Over the last several weeks, many readers have brought up the fact that Microsoft signed on as a sponsor of this newsletter at the beginning of November. At the same time, the last several newsletters have dealt with a report issued by a research firm that was critical of Linux.

ROPE is a scripting language that runs in the linux kernel, and allows complex iptables match logic to be written without the need to write modules in C.

TimeSys Delivers 2.6-based Linux Development Kits for Curtiss-Wright Controls SVME/DMV-182 and CHAMP-AV III Boards

Running a business based on open-source software is possible, as we found out when we interviewed Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation

Mandrakesoft achieved an operating income of 0.86 million Euros ($1.14 million) and net income of 1.39 million Euros ($1.85 million) in Fiscal Year 2003/2004. Per share, operating income was 0,18 Euros ($0.24 per share) and net income 0.29 Euros ($0.39 per share).

In small offices and large corporate networks, IT administrators have to manage hardware and software inventory. Keeping track of manufacturers, components, devices, IP addresses, operating systems, installed software, and licenses on an ever-changing company network is time-consuming, and such information is difficult to keep up-to-date. Here are six open source products that can help you manage the task.

In the past week at OSDir our screenshot tour list included OpenOffice.org 1.1 Impress, Hakin9 Live 2.3.D, BIG LINUX 2.0 Beta 3, and MAX: MAdrid_LinuX 1.2. Head over and check it out. A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.

SugarCRM offers a suite of customer relations management software. Sugar Sales is available in both an open and a closed source edition. The closed source package, Sugar Sales Professional, includes an Outlook plug-in and some additional features not found in the open source edition. I tested Sugar Sales, the open source version, which is available under a variant of the Mozilla Public License. I found the software has a lot of good things to recommend it, but still suffers from the incompleteness of many version 1.0 products.