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-- OES Will Include the Latest Version of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, Including Service Pack

Agency CIO and his team have led with open source for over a decade.

Jason Macer never really cared what operating system was running on his servers when the Dallas area businessman's Web hosting resale business peaked with 26 servers last March. But Macer found out that lots of folks did care, and were leaving him because of it. It was not Windows that was the problem, it was SCO. Macer's hosting vendor, EV1 Servers.net, had signed on for SCO's Linux user license. Macer's customers reacted by seeking hosting elsewhere, cutting his business down to just two servers.

Guardian Digital, based in Allendale, New Jersey, is supplying security and productivity applications for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarters. And, according to Guardian Digital spokesperson Nicole Pearson, ISRO made the first contact.

Software company Netline claims its decision to go open source with the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.

SteelEye announced last week LifeKeeper for LAMP, an application availability management tool for the open source environments known as LAMP (for Linux; Apache Web server; MySQL and PHP, Perl or Python).

Years ago everyone I knew who tried Linux also tried Red Hat, but then Red Hat started to turn itself into the new Microsoft and people who were able to make their own decisions promptly switched to SuSE. Today, most users have moved on to Debian -- my own favorite after Caldera became too hot to mention.

Software company Netline claims its decision to open source the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

Unless you have specifically created your own personal layout for LXer, today you have noticed that there is a new look. There's more features involved in this upgrade, discussed within.

Austin is playing host to a new con this week. It's a Linux con. It's a science fiction con. It's Linucon. The show is a sister show to Penguincon, held in Michigan. It is the result of a grass-roots organizing effort by Rob Landley and Stu Green, two longtime members of Austin's Linux scene.

Linucon -- what a great concept: A convention focused half on science fiction and half on Linux. As a fan of both who just attended the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston last month, I see huge similarities between the two constituencies.

IBM India, Center for Development of Advanced Computing and IIT Bombay have joined hands to set up an 'Open Source Software Resource Center'. The center has been set up at a cost of Rs. 5 crore. The move is an attempt to create an ecosystem to push the open source software development nationwide. Other academic and research institutes in the country are expected to be a part of the initiative once the framework is set up.

At last spring's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Novell CIO Debra Anderson revealed she'd been charged with migrating 5,000 Novell employees to Linux by BrainShare 2005. Half were due to be moved by October. But so far, according to the news article, only 1,500 have been moved which means the company is 1,000 short of its interim goal. Novell's director of Linux, Brian Green, is quoted as saying that Novell hopes to get the vast majority of employees migrated to Linux by year-end. That seems to be quite ambitious.

Linux Gazette is a reader-supported monthly ezine dedicated to two simple ideas: making Linux a little more fun, and sharing ideas and discoveries.

Why the combination of a DSP and uClinux works especially well for the embedded Linux gadgets turning up everywhere in the consumer electronics market.

When I was in college in the early 1980s studying mathematics and computer science, I had the opportunity to correspond with Len Adleman of RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem fame, who sent me a thick envelope by parcel post with some of his results in extending the Diffie-Hellman encryption algorithm (this was in the days before email and URLs dramatically simplified such correspondence).

Jon 'Maddog' Hall, the president of open-source organisation Linux International, told the LinuxWorld Expo in London on Wednesday that open-source voice-over-IP (VoIP) will be bigger than Linux. "I predict that over next three years, VoIP using an open-source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today," said Hall.

At aKademy I had the chance to talk to Chris Schlaeger about SUSE, its relationship with the KDE community, his view of the Linux enterprise desktop and the speed of development of several key features in KDE (a Dutch translation can be found at Bart&David).

Novell plans to release in early November a new version of its open-source operating system for desktops.