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While there is a vast technology-neutral environment, yet most of the new applications and e-governance talks on using programs make little or no use of them. Most of the top-level officials are aware of the benefits of using a technology-neutral environment, yet without any firm policies in place.

ubikon.com is a service providing desktop apps remotely

The worldwide database market grew 8 percent last year to US$13.8 billion, with Linux and Microsoft SQL Server seeing the strongest momentum, according to new Gartner research.

IptablesWeb is a free software (under GPL licence): it allow to inspect iptables logs , to receive email and alert using a web browser. It's a plugin-based multilanguage and multiuser software written in PHP.

Further information http://iptablesweb.sourceforge.net/

Glowlink has announced that Glowlink’s flagship Model 1000 Satellite Spectrum Monitoring System is now available on the Linux platform.

Welcome to this year's 21st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Julien Danjou reported that he has successfully installed NetBSD 3 inside the new Xen 3 virtual machine monitor available in Debian unstable. Eric Dorland explained the creation of library packages with debugging capabilities.

The Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is noteworthy for being relatively lightweight, fast-booting, and designed specifically as a cross-platform rescue CD.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 141:
We talk to Bassam Kurdali, director of Elephants Dream, the world's first open source movie
Last weeks minor disaster
The perfect distro?
Dan talks about Damn Small Linux
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The PostgreSQL project released updated versions of the PostgreSQL 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, and 7.3 series today to address a SQL injection vulnerability.

As the CEO of SugarCRM Inc., John Roberts is the head of one of the signature open source companies in existence today.

Based in Cupertino, Calif., SugarCRM is a provider of commercial customer relationship management, or CRM, software for open source platforms. At SugarCRM, Brown oversees a growing global customer portfolio that includes the 200 projects spawned by the community surrounding his open source CRM application. He even maintains an expanding technical partnership with the Dark Prince of the OSS community – Microsoft.

Following ten successive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth, this was the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline as quarterly compares become more difficult.
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Linux servers posted their fifteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 17.0% and unit shipments up 14.4%.

There will be more consolidation in the community that values open software development, and that is potentially a very good thing

Mr. Titch, in his article The Dangers of Dictating Procurement, shows that he has spent too much time listening to Microsoft propaganda and not enough time thinking for himself - a sad position for a think tank representative. Now Mr. Titch says he has received "no real reply". Mr. Titch, here is my reply.

The problem with writing and editing on a computer, versus having words on paper, is that it's usually hard to compare text from different sections of a document when they don't fit on the screen together. One way to do it is to use Vim's viewports feature. Another is to "fold" the text. Using Vim's folding features, you can tuck away portions of a file's text so that they're out of sight until you want to work with them again. Here's how.

From the Legal-Eagle dept.:
Here's an important development. The Open Invention Network has bought some new patents, with the express purpose of protecting Linux.

Users can get a preview of the next Mandriva server distribution, which promises to be a more secure and versatile enterprise-level platform than previous releases.

A little-known African localisation project called KiLinux scooped a Stockholm Challenge Award in Sweden earlier this month, while South Africa's Translate.org.za walked away with nothing. Tectonic asks Translate.org.za director Dwayne Bailey why he's still smiling. (Well, at least a little.)

DesktopLinux.com columnist and well-known Linux test pilot Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that he's run up against a major flaw in his current favorite desktop Linux, OpenSUSE 10.1. Apparently, the project's effort to enhance the distro's package manager of the distribution has gone awry.

Desktop sales played a big role in Hewlett-Packard's recent news-making profit gains. In the future, Linux will figure prominently in HP desktops, says Christine Martino, vice president of HP's Open Source and Linux Organization. She's not predicting an overthrow of Windows desktops anytime soon, though.

An about turn in BI

Comment Given that we have had decision support systems, enterprise information systems, and now business intelligence for the better part of two decades, you would think that the market would be showing some signs of maturity or, at least, that it was consolidating and moving towards some sort of commoditisation. From the number of new BI companies that I have met lately, this seems very far from fruition.…