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Venture capitalists are giving open-source businesses a multimillion-dollar twirl; care to follow their lead?

SugarCRM sees a bunch of guys making money off something they didn’t create. Well, that’s Open Source, guys, sorry. If someone sends you the free case of beer count yourself lucky. The way Mani’s explained it – we’ll wait for a rebuttal from the SugarCRM people – he has done nothing wrong, just been sharp about how he used a product.

Adrian von Bidder responds to the open letter to the open source community that we published earlier this week. He describes himself as "a software engineer at a small company, where we benefit greatly from open source software, and a Debian GNU/Linux package maintainer in my spare time. I also founded and run the pool.ntp.org project -- while it is not strictly speaking an open software project, it uses exactly the same loose community structure which is so typical for open source projects."

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The craziest rumor I've heard in a long time was circulating last week: Microsoft was going to cooperate with the Open Source Development Lab to port Microsoft services, utilities, and applications to the Linux platform.

That's the view of many top players in the industry, as they explained at a Stanford conference yesterday

The second sitting of the 7th session of the Ottawa Linux Symposium saw several interesting, highly technical discussions. Here are my reports on Trusted Computing, the ext3 filesystem, the e1000 network driver, and SELinux.

For years, I have been searching for a Linux distribution that would be functional immediately upon the installation, and include installed DivX and DVD support. Unexpectedly, I discovered such an operating system in India's ELX Biz Desktop.

A successful two month pilot at call centre prompts Linux service provider to add Asterisk voice over IP services to its product line-up.

Novell has announced a SUSE Linux pricing package that will simplify Linux procurement and licence management for IBM mainframe customers seeking to flexibly extend the use of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 across additional eServer architectures.

Standard Bank says a more than R100 million licensing agreement with Microsoft does not mean the bank no longer supports open source. Yesterday the bank announced it had signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft SA for the upgrade of its 42 000 platforms over the next three-and-a-half years, with Dimension Data being appointed large account reseller to assist with the licensing and administration of Microsoft products at Standard Bank.

Serious Linux deployments are popping up all over, from German insurers to Chinese banks.

ThinLinx has launched a line of Linux-based thin-clients that access Ubuntu Linux desktops and commercial Linux applications hosted on ThinLinx's grid network. The Hot-E initially offers Firefox database, Compiere and OpenCRX ERP/CRM software, E-GroupWare, and LinuxCanada POS/accounting software. It uses caching X proxies from NoMachine to improve performance.

Leading open source provider and Linux Solutions, Red Hat today announced its partnership with Rajasthan based GT Computer Hardware Engineering College as part of expanding its partner ecosystem in the country. With this partnership, Red Hat said its complete range of Training and Certification programmes would be available to students in six different states where GT Computer has its presence.

Mistika is a complete post production system incorporating editing, compositing and effects, with more than a decade of development behind it. It uses industry standard Linux workstations and storage to deliver an ultra high-end solution at a very competitive price. A big appeal of Mistika lies in its productivity, derived from its unique artist friendly workflow and speed of operation, making it ideal for client attended suites.

A free beginners guide to Linux produced by the Uganda Martyrs University is to be translated into three South African languages and distributed in the Western Cape.

CIOs can gain competitive advantages by taking part in the open source revolution, a movement that will shake up the power structure of the IT world, said Julie Hanna Farris, the founder of Scalix. Farris explains why open source is not a fad and how it will benefit the business world.

The continued commercialisation of Linux is helping Microsoft defend its Windows patch against the rising tide of open source, claims the head of Redmond’s competitive strategy efforts.

Running a background process on the Windows platform requires running a Windows Service. To run a Windows Service, you must have an application that is Windows Service aware. A Bash script is not Windows Service aware and neither are many console applications. Converting those applications into a Windows Service is not feasible. Without any additional applications, it's complicated to run a console application as a service. Microsoft distributes with its Resource Toolkit an application that converts a console program into a Windows Service. Unfortunately, the Resource Toolkit is not available free. A solution that is free, however, is the XYNTService open source application, which allows an administrator to define a console program and its options to execute. The XYNTService application is a Windows Service that reads a configuration file to know which applications to run.

JasperSoft pulls in $8 million in funding a day after ActiveGrid Inc. attracts $10 million in venture capital.