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While the release of the new open source Scalix 11 Community Edition messaging server is still a few months away, the binaries have been brought out in a preview package that is, according to the license that comes with it, "pre-release software with known issues and is not suitable for production use." We tried it out, just to see where Scalix is heading. The good news -- it's heading in the right direction for small and medium-sized businesses.

Notes from the aKadamy 2006 Conference.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Red Hat Inc. (RHAT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year," Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an interview.

Version 5.0 of GroundWork Monitor, an open-source-based server and network monitoring system, was released last week.

Symantec's bi-annual Internet threat report shows vulnerabilities for IE, Firefox, and Safari have increased in the last six months.

The manufacturer of Maryland's new electronic voter registration machines said yesterday that technicians have fixed the software glitch that caused machines in every precinct to freeze and reboot during the Sept. 12 primary election but acknowledged that two other flaws remain undiagnosed.

IBM said it is considering a plan to add Red Flag Linux support for its approximately 300 software applications as part of its long-term strategy in China. The open source software distribution from Beijing-based Red Flag Software would be the third Linux system to win support from IBM. The firm currently supports systems from market leaders Red Hat and Novell.

University of Connecticut Health Center has chosen to adopt OpenClinica Enterprise for its clinical research studies. OpenClinica is an open source web-based software platform that enables sponsors and investigators to manage clinical research data in multi-site studies.

Cubic Compass Software (CCS), a provider of enterprise portal software, announced the availability of an open source portal toolkit for salesforce.com's suite of on-demand CRM applications. The portal is tightly integrated with Salesforce to give Sales, Marketing, and Support professionals a view of all customer interactions online within Salesforce and provides their customers with self-service access to account information.

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Why isn't Linus Torvalds involved with the drafting of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Torvalds has frequently criticized the process and the drafts of the GPLv3, and recently voted against the license in an informal poll of kernel developers, so it seems obvious to question why he chose to sit out the process. Torvalds gives his reasons as a dislike of committees, an inability to contribute in his preferred way, and philosophical differences with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he suggests is trying to absorb other licenses under the GPL.

[What would be wrong with absorbing other licenses under the GPL? That could essentially reduce the number of licenses one has to worry about, couldn't it? - dcparris]

Windows security was primarily designed for a single user, stand alone Operating System. Instead of fixing the fundamental problems, Microsoft has continued to add kludges, which in essence don't solve anything. And don't think Vista will do much better. Apart from being nagged by UAC popups, it will only get worse since Microsoft has decided security cannot be left to third parties. Well, that feels good, being totally dependent on Microsoft for your digital security..

This is to announce the availablity of a new Fedora mailing list for SELinux-specific discussion.

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JasperSoft Inc is the first open source vendor to marry its business intelligence software to the CRM software as a service model.

The New York Times reports that IBM will announce a new patent policy later today under which it will significantly change the way it deals with its patent portfolio. According to the Times, IBM hopes to move the industry in the same direction by its example.

[Go IBM! This editor certainly encourages other businesses to consider what they can do to join IBM in working toward patent reform here in the US. - dcparris]

Learn the basic concepts of the AWK text-processing and pattern-scanning language. Learn how AWK reads and sorts its input data, run AWK programs, manipulate data, and perform complex pattern matching. When you're finished, you'll also understand GNU AWK (GAWK).

embWiSe Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a supplier of products and engineering services solutions around SDIO, USB and 802.11 WLAN technologies, will be demonstrating its Linux CE-ATA software stack/driver at the CE-ATA booth at this week's (Sept. 26-28) Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, United States.

Novell and Intel have joined forces to produce a Xen-enabled Linux that will work especially well on dual-core Xen processors. (Linux-Watch)

Marking what could have been a summer-long hiatus in its "Get the Facts" campaign, Microsoft is re-igniting the flames on the argument over whether enterprises spend less to manage Windows systems than Linux systems.

[And in other news, LXer editor Don Parris commissioned a study that proves he is the best looking guy on the planet. I'm sure everyone will believe that study too. The fact that women flock to other guys can be explained by their relaxed standards. Yeah, that's the ticket! - dcparris]