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Ian Charlesworth writes: "BEA used the Czech Republic leg of its grand BEAWorld tour to publicly announce its plans for "blended BEA WebLogic management and deployment technologies". In practical terms this means that the vendor will offer customers the ability to manage and control popular open-source software products using BEA WebLogic Server."

Editor's Note: BEA should consider changing to an open-source license.

In this two-part series I shall offer sage advice for women interested in becoming more involved with FOSS (part 1) and lists of excellent online communities and resources aimed at women in computing (part 2).

EMS Software Development has announced the new major version of EMS SQL Query 2005, the utility for building SQL queries for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Interbase/Firebird and DB2 databases. EMS SQL Query 2005 lets you quickly and simply build SQL queries to several databases. Visual building as well as direct editing of a query text is available.

After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.

Open-source software is gaining ground in Europe and the developing world, with users attracted by lower costs and accessibility, according to a recent study and industry observers.

Macromedia is to acquire Mobile Innovation, a privately-held design and integration house in the UK with around 50 staff, for an undisclosed sum.

The size of the round reflects SugarCRM's status as the most successful open source enterprise application in the industry

Best-selling author Steve Johnson did, and said business people can learn something from the ant's organizational skills.

Johnson delivered the keynote address at the "ExecUtech" breakfast series presented by the Tech Valley Executives Council of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Multimedia producers and artists will have the power to fully customise their own tailored GNU/Linux environment on a bootable CD with the release of Dyne:bolicII by the end of the year.

Several online stores are accepting pre-orders for an inexpensive handheld Linux gaming device expected to ship Nov. 30. The Gamepark Holdings GP2X-F100 features dual ARM9 processors, USB 2.0, a 3.5-inch color LCD, support for both native and emulated games, and a Linux SDK (software development kit).

The first step toward planning and designing an IP telephony solution is assessing the capabilities and limitations of the existing data network. Understanding the current infrastructure and the traffic running on it can help frame important future decisions.

Novell may lay off 10 to 15 percent of its staff as early as Monday, according to sources close to the company. It appears that one or more of the larger shareholders in the company are becoming worried about Novell's future.

We promised to dedicate a column in this series for talking strictly about servers, and the time has come.

A few reports that compare the cost of Windows with Linux state that even with the administration overhead and learning curve, Linux is still more cost-effective than paying for Windows. There are, of course, conflicting reports too. For beginners, Windows makes it possible. Should beginners really run your servers though?

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The CE Linux Forum (CELF), a technology forum dedicated to advancing the use of the Linux operating system in consumer electronics products, has contracted Matt Mackall of Selenic Consulting as its first in-house developer.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer has outlined how Microsoft Corp plans to lure customers away from Linux and pledged to provide IT execs with more frequent products and upgrades from the company in the future.

This week, advisories were released for Ruby, hylafax, Mozilla, module-assistant, Lynx, phpMyAdmin, AbiWord, netpbm, gdb, xloadimage, and openldap. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, and Red Hat.

Almost every week, there is a news report of a company somewhere which has suffered a customer data leak. Network security is no longer a luxury, it is an absolute essential and more companies are starting to realize this.

In Japan, one company that has carved out a niche for itself is Sanwa Comtec KK, established in 1991 by entrepreneur Shinichiro Kakizawa. Sanwa Comtec is an IT company that provides system solutions based on the most advanced IT technologies. The Sanwa Comtec group includes AS Magazine KK, iTrend KK, Electran Corp USA, EXCEL Computing LLC, USA, Extracom KK and Alexander Capital Access KK.

An interview with Anthony Scotney, CTO of WebRenderer's development company, JadeLiquid Software

In John H. Terpstra's October 18 column, Stopping Linux desktop adoption sabotage, he described the difficulties encountered when two people tried to buy and use Linux desktops. His story struck a chord. In responses to that article, many readers shared their similar depressing experiences with Linux desktop adoption. On the other hand, readers also said there's no profit motivation for retailers to sell or peripheral manufacturers to support a niche market like Linux.

In this installment of Terpstra's response to readers' feedback on his article, Terpstra describes the roadblocks he's encountered when using Linux and digs deeper into the lack of products and services supporting Linux.

The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in a speech here at the Zend/PHP Conference.