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Newark, NJ - Any real estate agent will tell you that "it’s all about location," but of late this has become less and less true for new internet startups. As the technology sector finally restabilizes 5 years on from the double disaster of the late 90’s bust compounded by 9-11, more and more new business ventures are opting to avoid the traditional overhead costs of maintaining a business and to head to their local "rent-free district," the internet.

[Article is more about shoestring business strategy, but mentions OpenOffice.org as one example. Of course, we already knew that, didn't we? - dcparris]

There is now less than one week to go until KDE developers meet with our users and industry supporters at Trinity College Dublin for our annual KDE World Summit, Akademy 2006. We are pleased to announce a further two sponsors to our long list.

KBOX 1000 Series Offers Affordable, Easy to Use Linux, Windows and Mac IT Management

[More non-libre software. Give me some news about libre management solutions being released. - dcparris]

Virtualization key players have been busy during the whole 2006 summer arguing about value of para-virtualization as well as the best approach to integrate a standard hypervisor interface in the Linux kernel.

Dear Windows user,

You are looking into the world of Linux? Welcome to another world of computing. As an MS Windows user you are familiar with one way of doing things. Be prepared to familiarize with a different way of doing things. This can sometimes be confusing, sometimes frustrating.

VPA is an Eclipse-based performance visualization toolkit, similar to Intel’s VTune, and AMD's CodeAnalyst for Linux, Java and Windows platforms that uses three major parts to improve performance.

Henry Jensen has announced the release of DeLi Linux 0.7, an independently developed distribution designed to run on very old computer systems (those with a minimum of 8 MB of RAM).

[Runs on old hardware? I got some old hardware to try it on.. - Scott]

According to police in Oakland Calif., Nina Reiser, the estranged wife of well-known open-source programmer Hans Reiser, has been missing since Sept. 3. Hans Reiser (pictured here) is the founder of Namesys and creator and primary developer of the highly popular ReiserFS Linux filesystem.

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The south Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk.

Vyatta announced it has secured $7.5 million in first round financing from JPMorgan Partners (advised in the financing by Panorama Capital), ComVentures, and ArrowPath Venture Partners. Vyatta recently introduced the Open Flexible Router (OFR), a flexible, cost-effective, and secure alternative to the incumbent, closed-source solutions that dominate the market today.

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development.

[This is a round-up of most of the IBM/developerWorks articles posted here this past week. - Scott]

A software glitch that can cause riders to be thrown off the ultra-cool Segway personal transporter has prompted the Bedford, N.H.-based Segway Inc to issue a recall of all the 23,500 scooters sold in the United States.

[This has nothing to do with FOSS but I love those cool scooters. - Scott]

There was a time, not too long ago in our reckless youth, that the term “Linux” might have been met with a gaze generally reserved for naughty and/or vaguely Germanic-sounding words. Mothers would have disapproved, because although they might not have known what it meant, it was probably inappropriate and surely the result of listening to those foul-mouthed high schoolers after band practice.

Xandros announced that it has teamed up with Interactive Ideas, a Linux distributor, to deliver the Xandros line of Linux desktop and server solutions to major resellers, system integrators and retail channels in the United Kingdom.

As the second Google Summer of Code (SOC) winds down, most participants agree: the program, which pays selected students to work on a free or open source software (FOSS) project for three months, is a unique and exciting opportunity, but needs to continue efforts to become more organized. Those who were previously involved tend to agree that this year was less chaotic than last year.

Mozilla Corp. Thursday updated its Firefox browser to fix 7 flaws, including 4 pegged by the open-source developer as "Critical."

Muscat promises to speed up interactive Web applications by loading special display software into the browser and then only sending XML data for display between the browser and the server.

Tripos, provider of drug discovery informatics products and chemistry research, announced plans to support a robust open-source workflow platform developed by researchers at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ Podcast feedback, Ex-Microsoft security strategist joins Mozilla, quickest patch ever, Microsoft releases new “Open Specifications Promise” on 35 Web Services specifications, Microsoft Re-Re-Releases IE patch and Flashforward Linux demo.

IBM's moves to offer platform alternatives come at a time when rival Microsoft is developing its own real-time communications platform built around Office and Office Live Communications Server, which includes instant messaging and VoIP capabilities. IBM/Lotus has been building out its real-time platform and trying to negate any advantages Microsoft may have.