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Premium Service Engineer provides support for mission-critical and complex Ubuntu environments. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today an advanced service and support offering that gives large enterprises with complex IT environments a highly-skilled, dedicated Canonical support professional.

Virtual Bridges’ new VERDE 2.0 now integrates client-side hypervisor for offline PC use. Virtual Bridges, IBM and Canonical announced today the immediate availability of the newest version of a Linux-server based virtual desktop with the release of Virtual Bridges’ VERDE 2.0 software.

After thorough testing of the leading Open Source index engines, Mailspect Inc. has selected Sphinx as the search and retrieval engine for MPP, the Message Processing Platform. Sphinx is an Open Source project founded and maintained by Andrew Aksyonoff of Voronezh, Russia. It was designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with SQL databases and scripting languages.

Likewise announced today that its Likewise Enterprise offering will ship as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 from Novell. Likewise Enterprise securely connects computers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 with Microsoft Active Directory -- making it easy to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits.

While news of Marketcetera's 1.5 release of its open source trading platform will certainly appeal to those working with financial-services specific software deployments, there's a neat little gem in this story that will make any open source software enthusiast smile. Marketcetera, the open source pioneer in the automated stock trading platform arena, has always had the advantage of fast deployments, infinite extensibility thanks to its built-in scripting engine and open nature, and impressive scalability -- and its 1.5 release builds on that foundation.

Leading Open Source Management Provider adds Deep Linux/Unix Monitoring and Eases Deployment Overhead

Event will take place April 25-26 in Bellinghan, WA. In addition to sponsoring and exhibiting, Zenoss Vice President of Community, Mark Hinkle, and Zenoss Community Manager, Matt Ray, will be delivering two presentations. “Sleep Soundly at Night: Network Monitoring with Zenoss Core” will cover the basics of using Zenoss Core to collect data and view networks, demonstrating how Zenoss provides a workflow to manage network events with a single view into all aspects of IT infrastructure. "Commercial Open Source, Balancing Community and Commerce” will tap into the symbiotic relationship between community and product – recognizing that building and maintaining a large community of users requires a dedication to the contributions of all users while providing a valuable product without limitations.

Zenoss Inc., a value leader in enterprise network and systems management, today announced that it is a founding member of the Open Source Channel Alliance. Led by Red Hat, the alliance program includes leading commercial open source software vendors including; Alfresco, Enterprise DB, Ingres, Jaspersoft, Likewise, Pentaho, Zmanda, and Zenoss. Through the alliance Zenoss has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation to distribute and market Zenoss' portfolio of cost-effective, enterprise-proven network and systems monitoring solutions.

Web Cache will launch at MySQL Conference in Santa Clara.

Operating Systems Battle Draining Precious IT Budget and Resources. The evil eyes, destroyed relationships and recriminations associated with the long-raging battles over Mac, Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems are on their way to becoming distant memories thanks to Likewise Software’ solutions and their new t-shirts.

Zenoss Inc., the leading commercial open source network and systems management provider, today announced it has been named a finalist for three awards. Zenoss has been selected as a finalist in the Enterprise Tools category at the 19th Jolt Product Excellence Awards as well as the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 24th Annual CODiE Awards in the Best Open Source Solution category. In addition, Zenoss is a finalist for the Innovator Award at the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council (CRTC) TechAwards 2009.

Company Offers Partners E-mail, Calendaring and Contact Infrastructure. Qualifying partners such as web hosting providers, telcos, ISPs, as well as academic institutions and non-profit organizations can take advantage of a fully-maintained webmail module, which includes installation and configuration support of the Open-Xchange software.

Open Source Network Management Project Offers Free Instructor-Led Training. Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source IT systems and network monitoring software, today announced its first Zenoss Community Day will take place February 20, 2009, in Los Angeles. The daylong event is a precursor to the 7th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 7x), where Zenoss is a silver sponsor and exhibitor.

Leader in Console Server Solutions recognized with Sun, Novell, Red Hat, as top open source company in the channel

The World's largest Python event returns to Chicago. PyCon 2009, the seventh annual Python community conference, will take place March 27 to 29 at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel.

SourceForge has announced the launch of Hosted Apps, a new service for developers that provides instant, virtualized access to popular open source applications. SourceForge will centrally manage the infrastructure and security of Hosted Apps, allowing developers to innovate freely without being distracted by the maintenance of their project's infrastructure. The inaugural application lineup contains three of the most widely used applications within the SourceForge community: phpBB (forum software), MediaWiki (the wiki platform that powers Wikipedia), and LimeSurvey (an online survey tool). Because the Hosted Apps platform allows SourceForge.net to easily add support for a wide variety of third-party open source applications, more applications are scheduled for deployment over the coming months.

Open-Xchange Inc. today announced the availability of Open-Xchange Server Edition, the successor to Open-Xchange Server 5. Open-Xchange software includes email, calendar, contacts, tasks and document sharing to provide organizations with all the tools needed to facilitate effective teamwork and document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is asking users of Ubuntu Server edition just exactly how they are using it and in what kind of organisations. Ubuntu is the popular Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu is free, and is downloaded from mirror sites around the world.

The Linux Plumbers Conference is a working conference. LPC brings together the top developers working on the "plumbing" of Linux - kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing system, etc. - and gives them three days to work together on core design problems. The conference is organized into several half-day microconferences focusing on individual subsystems. Since the microconfs are co-located, developers can meet face-to-face with experts from other subsystems to solve problems that span project boundaries. This kind of cross-project collaboration usually only happens in the unofficial "hallway track" at conferences. LPC makes the hallway track a priority.

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.1 Simplifies the Unattended Deployment of Systems and Virtual Machines on New Platforms, adds “Green” Features and Innovative Provisioning Business Rules