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Dell today distanced itself from system builder Questar's announcement yesterday that it is offering Linux-based Dell-manufactured desktop systems - and doing so with the PC giant's approval.

Voice is undergoing a transformation in the enterprise market. Not only is a technical transformation underway, the shift from TDM-based switching to VoIP solutions, but also the ways in which businesses think about and use their voice solutions are also undergoing radical change.

Writing an article about getting started with Perl is a bit like writing an article about getting started with neurosurgery. Sure, I could cover some basics -- but it would only leave you scratching your head the first time something comes up that you've never seen. I'd hate to see a neurosurgeon in that position! But no matter what you do, there are always times when you just don't know an answer. A much more horrible fate to suffer is to have no clue where to go to find the answer. So, this article covers one or two basics of Perl, just to show you that's it's not so scary, and a future article will tell you where to find solutions when you're on your own.

Oracle has outlined plans to enhance its business and technology relationship with Novell's SUSE, potentially disrupting what has been a handy revenue stream for its current Linux partner Red Hat.

An introduction to this music notation software for Linux.

It's out there, and it's free--or at least close to it--but you just haven't had the guts to take the plunge and try Linux. We have good news. It's not necessary to make a complete commitment to the open-source operating system. You can have your Windows and your Linux, too, by setting up a dual-boot system. We'll step you through the process of installing Linux alongside Windows XP so that you can boot either OS.

Embedded Linux house MontaVista is included on a list of the top 100 privately held U.S. technology companies assembled by media company AlwaysOn and accounting firm KPMG. The "AO100" list highlights companies with exceptional revenue or customer growth, and companies with "game-changing" approaches and technologies.

In his first 18 months as general manager of IBM's worldwide Linux team, Jim Stallings has seen dozens of corporate shops and governments around the world push Linux from the periphery to the heart of their IT strategies -- never a bad thing for job security when you have the word"Linux" in your title. But with the open source operating system now more firmly entrenched, the next challenge for Stallings and his team is to help Linux drive IBM's companywide On Demand initiative deeper into corporate accounts with one hand while fighting the ongoing server battle against Windows with the other.

A PC dealer in Europe has begun selling Dell desktops equipped with Linux, but Dell emphasized that the systems were customized by the dealer and that this isn't the first time this has happened. Questar, an Italian-based computer seller, has begun to ship Optiplex business desktops loaded with Linspire 4.5, a version of Linux, and a copy of OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software package. The basic Questar computer, with a 2.4GHz Celeron processor, sells for about $562.

Questar Corp. today said an Associated Press story distributed Tuesday, July 6, erroneously stated that the Salt Lake City-based natural gas company was in a partnership with Dell Inc. to market Linux-based desktop computers in Europe. The AP subsequently corrected the story to indicate that another company named Questar -- identified as "a virtual unit company focusing on software sales" -- was partnering with Dell in the European venture. The Utah-based Questar is an integrated natural gas company with $4 billion in enterprise value.

Nimble Microsystems has unveiled a small, low-power, SuperH-based fanless computer that comes with Linux, supports PoE (power-over-Ethernet), and has two Ethernet ports and two mini-PCI slots suitable for 802.11x wireless cards or other internal expansion. Available in single quantities for $250, the TNP-51R targets networking applications such as routers, firewalls, VPN, spam and content filters, RFID savant, webcams, and video servers.

Aduva, a privately-held system management software company with financial backing from BMC Software, IBM, and Intel, develops technology that helps enterprises reduce the time and expertise required to build, deploy and maintain stable, compliant, secure and reliable Linux software environments.

Novell, the second-ranked seller of the Linux operating system, raised $600 million in a bond offering that closed Friday. Novell will use about $475 million of the funds for "general corporate purposes, including potential future acquisitions," the company said in a statement. The move comes about six months after rival Linux seller Red Hat raised $600 million of its own.

Welcome to this year's 26th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The online-forum debianHELP is carrying an online Debian Trivia Quiz for you to see if you can put yourself into the hall of fame. In retrospect of this year's Debian conference Joey Hess complained about being not very productive at conferences and high expectations that also block productivity and socialising.

Oracle and Red Hat have announced the launch of an Oracle and Red Hat Linux Enterprise Applications Porting (LEAP) centre in Singapore. And there might well be governmental support for Linux soon.

Red Hat, the leading provider of Open Source and Linux software worldwide, has opened a sales and support office in Kolkata. This office will serve as the eastern regional hub to address the growing demand for Red Hat products and services in eastern India. Red Hat will now be able provide its complete range of products and services to potential customers in Government, enterprise and education segments in the eastern states. In addition, the new office will also provide support to existing customer implementations.

Andrea Arcangeli presented a "secure computing" patch for the 2.6.7 stable Linux kernel, asking people to review it and to look for holes. Evidently referring to the as-of-yet veiled CPUShare, Andrea explains, "I need this new kernel feature for a spare time research project I'm developing [on] the weekends," which at first glance looks to be a cooperative clustering solution.

I got mad as heck when Kenneth Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, claimed that Linus Torvalds stole Linux from Minix. So I told the world the truth: I wrote Linux. Now, I'm getting so many e-mails from bogus Linux inventors that I think I'm going to create a Linux Liar's Club (LLC). What? Oh yeah, some guys in Utah beat me to it.