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MUNICH, Germany, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNITAS, the specialist for direct digital and dialog marketing, presents the world's first professional open source email marketing solution. The new software OpenEMM will be available as a free download in both German and English as from 13th July at http://www.openemm.org, providing a range of services similar to those in AGNITAS's basic conventional email marketing platform version. OpenEMM runs on the Linux operating system.

With its Linux desktop product, Xandros is focusing on short list of features to push Microsoft off the desktop.

Corratech an open source software services and consulting firm, providing custom software development, best practice consulting, implementation and deployment services, as well as post implementation services such as training and support, has a TCO calculation functionality/tool available on the site to calculate the difference in cost between Salesforce.com™ and SugarCRM.

Personal Solution Pac 3.0 software for Linux is a UPS power management system based on open source code.

The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful. The biggest problem with find is that it has more options than most people can remember -- it truly is capable of doing most things you could want.

When moving to Linux, recompiling code for Unix apps not written in Java, Perl, tcl or ksh is a fact of life, says Alfredo Mendoza, one of the co-authors of Unix to Linux Porting. Although there may be no shortcuts for porting your apps, there are utilities that can make the transition smoother by handling platform differences. Take a page from this IT pro as he explains the issues you face in porting apps from older Unix platforms and gives recommendations on how to tackle ANSI, ISO and POSIX industry standards.

RALEIGH - Following a trend away from traditional stock options, Red Hat is mulling offering rank-and-file employees "restricted" stock options, a type of equity compensation that could be more lucrative for the company's 1,100 workers.

IBM plans to release a version of Lotus Notes client groupware for Linux desktops and it will be a free download for existing Lotus Notes users.

A while ago I blogged (lost in migration, reposted) about my complete disappointment in the currently available programs for screen capture in Linux. As a result of that post, I was contacted by Christian Linhart who produces a program called “DemoRecorder“.

[I don't care how good the program is. I want my freedom. Such programs have no value to me if they are not libre. That the developer is pink with purple polka dots doesn't change that. - dcparris]

Tiered storage environment lets Select Comfort save cost and free-up tier-one disk resources

In 1995, Microsoft added long file name support to Windows, allowing more descriptive names than the limited 8.3 DOS format. Mac users scoffed, having had long file names for a decade and because Windows still stored a DOS file name in the background. Linux was born with long file name support four years before it showed up in Windows. Today, long file names are well supported by all three operating systems though key differences remain.

ORACLE boss Larry Ellison says that Red Hat was too small to give good customer support services and so his outfit was going to do it for them.

Lighttpd Webserver Installation in Debian

SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 10, 2006 -- LynuxWorks™ Inc. today announced that its LynxOS®-178 real-time operating system (RTOS) product now offers complete integration with Objective Interface Systems' ORBexpress® RT, the most widely deployed commercial-off-the-shelf tools (COTS) Object Request Broker (ORB) for safety-critical military and aerospace systems. ORBexpress RT is a real-time Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) ORB that enables software developers to simplify the development of distributed software applications, build scalable, efficient and robust applications, and reduce overall development time, meeting time-to-market requirements. The combination of the LynxOS-178 RTOS with ORBexpress RT communications middleware delivers a well-engineered foundation, enabling developers to deliver hard real-time performance in a small-footprint application with full code reusability across diverse systems.

A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be available on July 24, with a version for Novell SUSE Linux Desktop for Enterprise 10 version due within 90 after that, IBM said.

Hewlett-Packard's blade servers are at the centre of a new agreement whereby Bell Microproducts will be distributing the Red Hat enterprise Linux application to its resellers, stated Gary Gammon, senior vice president of marketing for Bell Microproducts' Enterprise Division.

Novell has announced two new programs for Linux training designed to promote education around open source. Novell unveiled its "Train the Teacher" series, which it is billing as the industry's first free week-long boot camp for Linux educators.

Digium CEO Mark Spencer explains how he's woven freely available software into a low-priced phone system for businesses

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kamefu (a multi-machine emulator frontend) has been renamed Gamefu. Physiks, a physics educational project, and a project for advanced session management, both a result of the Summer Of Code, are imported into KDE SVN. Work progresses in the "GMail-style conversation view for KMail" and "WorKflow" projects. KDE 4 changes: KPat, a card game application, gets OpenGL bling, while kwin gets experimental compositing support and compiz-like effects. Okular gets support for the TIFF file format. Akonadi advances towards its goals with the import of a command-line and GUI client.

IBM is debuting a version of the desktop colloboration software that runs on the open-source operating system.