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On September 2, the comment and voting period will close on ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft specification based upon Microsoft’s Office Open XML formats (OOXML). The Linux Foundation (LF) has received questions from outside its membership regarding its position on adoption of OOXML in its current form as a global standard. In sum, the Linux Foundation calls upon those National Bodies that have not yet cast their votes to vote “No, with comments.”

Levanta today announced the release of the Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance. The Intrepid VM is a VMware appliance version of the Levanta Intrepid line of Linux life-cycle management products, which automate provisioning, change control, migration and disaster recovery processes for Linux systems.

During this panel, Marshall and Troan will provide insight on virtualization's impact on the software industry, as well as discuss why they think the general purpose operating system will soon be a thing of the past -- giving way to virtual appliances.

Open Source Awards Emphasize Enterprise Apps and Collaboration

Alfresco open source barometer survey of 10,000 community members worldwide demonstrates strong preference for deployment on Linux over Windows; Red Hat use growing much faster than Novell SUSE after controversial Microsoft patents deal. “The survey found that the U.S. is leading open source adoption globally,” said Dr Ian Howells, CMO of Alfresco Software. “We believe the Global 2000 is seeking innovation and better value for their technology investments whereas in Europe open source adoption is often driven by governments seeking better value for their citizens. The research also showed that the U.K. lags behind in the adoption of open source suggesting less government emphasis compared with other European countries such as France, Germany, Spain and Italy.”

Acronis, Inc. announced it is a Silver Technology Partner with Novell and is committed to the development and delivery of technology solutions, services and offerings that support SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell. Acronis will create new storage management solutions for SUSE’s Linux Enterprise customers and provide advanced disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning and data migration solutions including centrally managed online server backup, server disk imaging, and bare-metal restore solutions for SUSE.

SourceForge, Inc. today announced the finalists of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize open source projects which not only have the most supportive community following, but also those which the SourceForge.net community’s members believe are built with the highest quality, productivity and ingenuity

rPath today announced it is launching a Certified Software Appliance Architect training curriculum, which will give participants the skills needed to build, deploy and maintain software appliances. The curriculum will employ a hands-on, lab-driven approach and focus on application packaging, software appliance design, image construction, lifecycle management, and virtualization technologies.

CIOs gain a “one-stop” neutral forum for sharing and learning more about interoperability needs for open solutions

Open source visionaries from Hewlett Packard and Olliance Group share insights regarding effective open source software management and governance

Only open source platform to unify security products providing, a free and better alternative to SonicWall and other appliance vendors

Zenoss Core wins award for best open source network monitoring and management tool.

Company’s OCM Platform Reduces Cost and Time to Market for Providers of Linux Systems, Appliances and Software

[Not exactly my idea of 'open', let alone 'Free' - dcparris]

Delivers First Commercial Open Source CMDB and Further Simplifies Enterprise IT Management.

Collaboration with Wikispaces enhances functionality for SourceForge.net’s 150,000 open source projects

rPath facilitates certification requirements for software providers with VMware Tools integration, enables auto-publish to Community section of VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

Partnership gives Linspire & Freespire users single-click access to easy-to-use, consumer friendly desktop virtualization software

Webcast to tap expertise of GPLv3’s chief legal counsel to evaluate effect of new license on enterprises

Combination of Red Hat Exchange and an expanded VAR channel will make Scalix solutions more widely available to small and mid-size businesses

For the First Time OpenVZ Virtualization Software Available On 'Live CD' Without Requiring Hard Disk Installation