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Alex Knezevic's IT shop at the Marena Group Inc. was awash in a mix of proprietary, open source and custom applications, and none of them were talking to each other. One year ago, the Lawrenceville, Ga., medical garments manufacturer was stocked with Intel-based servers and desktops that ran Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. And its staff of 60 had a mix of specialized manufacturing software to push more than 200,000 custom post-surgical compression garments out the door every year.

Tibco Software on Monday is announcing its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open-source format. The product, based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), is being made available via open source as part of the company's announcement of General Interface Version 3.2, which supports the Firefox 1.5 browser.

Fortify Software, the leading today announced the immediate availability of Fortify Source Code Analysis Suite 4.0. The latest edition of Fortify's award-winning software security suite builds on its proven record of identifying and eliminating the most security vulnerabilities, and introduces important new features that will benefit development, audit, and information security teams for enterprise deployments.

More bad news for Microsoft's delayed operating system Vista - the European Commission is widening an investigation into whether or not it breaches competition law. Microsoft and the Commission were already discussing the oft-delayed software.

With its Corporate Server 4, Mandriva is challenging the Linux data center operating systems from Red Hat and Novell by offering broader support for virtualization technologies. It's a solid-sounding plan, but eWEEK Labs' tests of CS 4 show that it's longer on ambition than execution.

As open source router start-up Vyatta is scheduled to formally launches its first appliance this week, one early adopter is using the Linux-based gear to replace Cisco technologies.

Administrators interested in a cost-efficient, powerful, and easy-to-manage thin client server should consider Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL), a server-based open source application that lets organizations deploy GNU/Linux across many clients. DRBL lets clients boot a Linux image over the network, so client hard drives can retain their own operating systems, or clients can do without hard drives altogether.

Yahoo Business reports on ODF Day at Akademy which brought together developers from KOffice, OpenOffice, IBM, Intel and government. "Dr. Barbara Held, presently serving as Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission Program for Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA), stated in her keynote address, 'In the view of the European administrations and Member States, the ODF standard is at the very top of the pile by far from all other proposed open standards.'"

Sun was set to report Monday that 60 percent of the trial units of Niagara, an open-source product, have been ordered by new customers. This indicates that the company is gaining market share from rivals such as IBM Corp.'s Power and Intel Corp.'s Itanium high-performance microprocessor architectures.

"In a large proprietary software development environment, engineers spend four to nine hours a week in meetings. ... The result of all this is to pace the engineers to the plodding pace of management, so that they can stay in control of the project," said Josh Berkus, core team member of the PostgreSQL open source database project.

Jereme Hancock says the reason he created a Christian version of Linux, called Ubuntu Christian Edition, was simply to "bring Linux to Christian believers." Ubuntu CE, which comes with net filtering and Bible study software, is designed to fit in with Hancock's mission to provide a "family-friendly place on the Web," Hancock says.

Black Duck Software recently released a new version of its open source license compliance and management tool. It's aimed at companies that develop products where multiple pieces of open source code are blended together.

With Akademy now at a close Aaron Seigo spoke to Linux.com for a podcast. "Akademy's conference track, which ran Saturday and Sunday, was different from those of past years, Seigo says. In the past, Seigo says Akademy has had a user-focused conference, but 'this year, we've decided to focus acutely on the technical side of life.' Most of the talks have focused on KDE 4, and speakers have been able to not only discuss their new applications and technologies, but also to demonstrate them."

Kamis Promoted From Vice President of Engineering to Company's Highest Technical Post; Industry Recognized Cross Domain Expert to Drive Technical Innovation

The Telecoms Action Group today opened for donations for its consumer advocacy campaign to take out a full-page advert decrying the state of telecommunications in South Africa. The group published its banking details on the Tag.org.za website.

SA Internet guru and open source advocate Alan Levin's company has developed an online invoicing system called Billy for the South African market.

Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) started as a telecommunications infrastructure building block, but its strong availability, scalability and service response features are driving its adoption in corporate IT environments, says Bill Weinberg, open source architecture specialist for Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), in Beaverton, Ore. Along the way, it's being enhanced to work with virtualization and blade servers, too.

Here's a handy Perl script to automate a critical part of your daily routine. dailystrips can help fetch your favorite Internet comic strips in time for you to enjoy them with your first cup of coffee, without your having to surf for them. You can run it from the CLI, or set it up to run automatically each day in cron. Set up correctly, dailystrips will either create an HMTL file you can browse to read the strips, or actually download the images and store them locally for you -- your choice.

For a bleeding-edge release, Edgy Eft Beta delivers the goods. We might even go so far as to call it "polished". Ubuntu seems back on form after Dapper.

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