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With open-source productivity suites getting better and better, the cost of Microsoft Corp.'s Office is looking higher and higher to FN Manufacturing LLC.

Last year, FN Manufacturing began testing OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 with the hope of mitigating the costs associated with an enterprisewide upgrade to Microsoft Office 2003. FN Manufacturing's goal was not necessarily to entirely replace Microsoft's Office suite, but to find and deploy a more cost-effective office solution where and when possible. And for Ed Benincasa, an eWEEK Corporate Partner and vice president of MIS at FN Manufacturing, the more the OpenOffice.org suite matured, the more compelling he found the open-source alternative to be.

IBM has opened up its entire patent portfolio for the development and implementation of selected open healthcare and education software standards around web services, electronic forms and open document formats.

Red Hat India has signed a deal with one of India's top five banks to provide its enterprise Linux software for 10,000 desktops and 1000 servers, a company executive said today.

Corey Shields writes: "After the Firefox balloon that was launched today [Saturday], the OSU LUG also had an addons review fest to try to help the increasing number of extensions and themes awaiting review and approval on addons.mozilla.org.

SGI's Acclaimed High-End Features Now Within Reach of Budget-Conscious Customers Seeking Powerhouse Solutions that are Easy to Build, Deploy, and Administer

It was a surprise to everyone but Google that AdSense ads appearing in RSS feeds were geo-targeted just like site-based AdSense blocks.

Mobility Email is a portable open-source distribution of Mozilla's Thunderbird. It can be used on a desktop computer as a normal e-mail application, or it can run directly from a USB key (like the iPod Shuffle) without needing to be installed on a computer.

Huntsville, AL (OPENPRESS) October 25, 2005 -- Digium® Inc., the creator of Asterisk® and pioneer of open source telephony, today launched the Digium Wildcard TDM2400P, the most dense and scalable card available for building an Asterisk-based telephony system for SOHO and SME environments. The 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.2-compliant card with Digium’s patent pending VoiceBus™ architecture, supports quad-FXS station and quad-FXO office interfaces for connecting analog telephones and lines through a PC, without taking up numerous PCI slots.

“The Digium 24-port card offers the highest analog density available in a PCI card and can scale up to 48-ports with two cards and two slots,” said Mark Spencer, president of Digium. “With its flexible scalability features, our 24-port card is the best hardware card available for small and medium businesses looking to build an inexpensive, sophisticated VoIP telephony solution without compromising the use of multiple PCs.”

David Boswell writes: "The Mozdev Community Organization is looking for someone to help with ongoing community development tasks at mozdev.org.

Motorola and PalmSource are among the companies that lined up last week behind an initiative that aims to promote the use of Linux on cell phones.

Tectonic wants you to tell us what's hot and what's not in the world of open source. Its first open source readers' awards will recognise the best of OSS in the South African marketplace, and the world.

At 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -0700) on Sunday, the Mozilla development tree was locked down in preparation for the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1.

Kernel terminology gets tossed about quite a bit. One of the more common topics regarding operating system kernels is the overall design. In particular how the kernel is structured.

It's a value at the heart of successful open source projects. It is also at the heart of the Internet.

It's not majority rules. It's everyone agrees, or at least accepts the agreement of the vast majority.

Consensus has a bad habit of breaking down when money gets into the mix. Contracts are one replacement principle. Democracy is another. Power is a third.

But none of these alternate values deliver what consensus delivers. You realize this when consensus is lost.

Partnership empowers service providers with deep packet inspection, network monitoring and enforcement tools across business and consumer networks

With staff cuts almost a certainty and pressure coming from some investors for massive changes, analysts look ahead to Novell's future.

New Product Enables Anyone to Easily Run, Share or Evaluate Software in a Virtual Machine on a Windows or Linux PC

Oracle's recent acquisition of the open source Innobase database technology could mean that the firm is preparing to release an open source database.

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Is Ubuntu a Debian fork? Or spoon? What sort of silverware are you, man?

Yes, Ubuntu is a fork. No, it isn't. Yes it is! Oh, whatever.

In short, we are a project that tries hard to collaborate with many other projects -- such as upstream X.org, and Gnome, and of course Debian. In many cases, the code we ship is modified or different to the code shipped by those other projects. When that happens, we work hard to ensure that our changes are published as widely as possible, in a format that is easy for other project maintainers to understand and incorporate into their own working tree.