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New Cluster Availability Management Suite Provides Near 100-Percent Reliability; Scales to Thousands of Nodes

Oracle Outperforms the Competition with Industry's Lowest Ever Transaction Cost

IT solutions and services company in Japan teams with OpenLogic to assist customers with open source management

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MLDesign Technologies (MLD) has released a new version of its system-level design platform, MLDesigner that makes it easier and faster to model, simulate and analyze the performance of very large complex systems.

The OpenWengo project recently released version 2.1 of its WengoPhone VoIP softphone. It's a big step forward for Linux users.

Adobe Systems Inc. has announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 3 software, the cross platform, free open source framework for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs). The company said this major functional release adds rich new UI capabilities, enhanced developer productivity, desktop deployment and enterprise testing and performance tools.

New Linux-based, multi-core optimized IP media processing solution addresses needs of enterprise VoIP, ATCA, and IMS markets

As a writer, the only reason I ever got that first computer wasbecause it was far more efficient than a typewriter, and certainly morereadable than my own handwriting. The sheer volume of what I've turned out over the years would be impossible for me to manage on paper. Add to that all...

[May be something of interest here to many GNU/Linux users... - dcparris]

In this chapter from the ExtremeTech book "Hacking Ubuntu: Serious Hacks Mods and Customizations," you'll learn about switching applications, tweaking the workplace switcher, customizing applications, using buffers and tracking projects.

Linux veteran may be in for a roller-coaster ride in what so far has proved to be a controversial partnership between software giant, Novell.

Sometimes the simplest game can be every bit as addictive and fun as monster games like Halo 3 or Gears of War. This is probably the reason why games like Pong still remain popular to this day and continue to inspire developers. While there are probably hundreds of versions of Pong-inspired games out there, one that will appeal to hardcore Pong fans and casual players alike is PONG! Multiplayer, a Firefox extension that allows you to indulge in Pong without leaving the comfort of your favorite browser.

Sun Connection Inventory Channel Makes Solaris and Linux-based Systems Easier to Deploy, Scale and Manage; One-Click Discovery Helps Eliminate Manual Data Collection

By itself, Vim is one of the best editors for shell scripting. With a little tweaking, however, you can turn Vim into a full-fledged IDE for writing scripts. You could do it yourself, or you can just install Fritz Mehner's Bash Support plugin.

SGI Collaboration Will Aid Cross-Industry Group's Integration of Science and Technology

[Not specific to GNU/Linux, but may be of interest to some in our audience. - dpcarris]

The aKademy 2007 team is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for this year's conference.

Six Cape Town based developers last week launched the alpha preview of Synthasite, an online web site development tool.

[Not necessarily FOSS, but it seems kind of interesting, nonetheless. Looks like another step toward the subscription-based computing model - dcparris]

The KOffice team today released the third minor release of the 1.6 series. As the development focus has shifted to the next major release, this new version was aimed at polishing and fixing bugs.

[If you fix the bugs, there's not much sense polishing them, is there? Sorry, couldn't resist. - dcparris]

No winners last year, the gauntlet is downBrainAcademy, the competition that hands out bursaries to promising computer science students, is kicking off again this summer. Last year the challenge proved too tough for the entrants: no one managed to survive all three elimination rounds to claim the prize.

[Is this Microsoft's equivalent to SoC? Looks like they ran last year's event like they managed Vista - setting their goals too high. - dcparris]

Trolltech has announced the final release of Qt Jambi version 4.3 (corresponding to Qt v4.3.0), the Java binding for Qt.

BI want to break free

Whitepaper Business Intelligence (or BI) is often promoted as "get out of gaol free" card - “ surely, intelligence in business is a good thing (although perhaps we wouldn't know, we haven't met much of it), so paying lots of money for a BI package is a no-brainer?"

[This whitepaper may be of interest to our BI users - dcparris]