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Company Aims Products at Using Virtualization Technology to Create Competitive Advantage for Enterprise and SMB Businesses by Providing Multi-Platform Virtualization Solutions

Just how many enterprise problems can you really solve with Open Source Java tools? Open Source Live will bring enterprise devs hands-on exposure to some of the hott4est Open Source Java-based tools, including Ajax, JSF, Hibernate, Spring and even EJB3. The forum will be a weekend-long Practicum for Java open source tools October 6-8 in the heart of Silicon Valley – Santa Clara, Calif.

Free software’s true believer gives his thoughts on whether it is okay to use proprietary software to make Linux popular.

[All hands on deck! Prepare for "free" vs "open source" and anti-DRM bloodbath. Or maybe just another lively debate here on LXer. - dcparris]

Debian has issued updates for gnutls11 and gnutls13. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The GNOME Project recently released GNOME 21.6. While the latest release doesn't offer any breakthrough features, it does include a wealth of minor tweaks and improvements.

Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Red Hat (RHAT) shares are higher today, ahead of tomorrow’s expected fiscal second quarter earnings report tomorrow.

[Hmmm... Should be of interest to any Red Hat stockholders in our crowd. - dcparris]

So, an Aussie, a Canadian and a German guy walk into a bar … and migrate the joint's computer system to Linux.

LIVINGSTON, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- adaptiveblue today announced that it has launched the blueorganizer smart browsing technology at DEMOfall '06, the premier venue for new products and companies.

The Free Software Foundation wishes to clarify a few factual points about the Second Discussion Draft of GNU GPL version 3, on which recent discussion has presented inaccurate information.

'It looks like you're trying to have a conversation with a computer. Can I help?' In the early 1970s, no science show was complete without predictions of HAL-like intelligent autonomous computers by the turn of the century.

[Interesting tidbit in this one for EMACS fans - dcparris]

Day Two of Akademy 2006 and the speakers conference was brought to a close with the Akademy Awards Ceremony. And the Winners are: Boudewijn Rempt, Alexander Neundorf, and Laurent Montel. Read on for more details.

For several years a group of academic researchers has been quietly working on a new kind of search engine -- one that recognizes the semantic meaning of a query instead of only taking input as a keyword to be literally matched. The technology is licensed under the GPL, and a desktop version is imminent.

CenterStage, a GNU GPL open source media center application for the Mac platform, has launched a recruitment drive to help push their independent project along.

[Since this is a FOSS project... - dcparris]

US researchers have secured a $750,000 three-year grant to study how open source software such as the Apache web server is built.

No, this has nothing to do with Linux...BUT do we know anyone who NEEDS to be warned of this? MS has passed the Audacity Zone lone ago. It is now a straight punch in the face to Microsoft customers.

September 25, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Open-source database maker MySQL AB has quietly dropped support for BerkeleyDB, the embeddable database Oracle Corp. acquired in February.

3Com Office Connect VPN Firewall and SecureServer -- [Sept. 25, 2004] -- 3Com's OfficeConnect SecureRouter (3CR860-95) and OfficeConnect VPN Firewall (3CR870-95) are Linux-based VPN routers for the SOHO (small office, home office) market. 3Com offers a free but unsupported Linux-MIPS kernel source tree

Today, open source player Qlusters will roll out the first commercial edition of its multiplatform systems management architecture, aiming its new OpenQRM Pro product at SMB and enterprise customers that don't want to pay the heftier prices of existing offerings from IBM, HP, and BMC.

[And we need the non-libre plug-ins for what, exactly? - dcparris]

Scalix recently announced that its enterprise email platform will be going open source. Right now preparations are being made, the bugtracking system and code repository are being set into place, and code is being cleaned. That's an exciting story, especially when you consider OSDL's Desktop Linux Client Survey last year, which said that the non-existence of a proper enterprise email client to replace Outlook was the greatest hurdle for the introduction of the Linux desktop.

[Keep an eye on this one folks - Open Source Scalix? Glad to see it! - dcparris]

Gurjot Singh (right) has been promoted from COO to CEO of LynuxWorks. Former CEO Dr. Inder M. Singh, who has led the company through virtually all of its 18-year history, will focus on his role as chairman, serving as a strategic visionary.