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Net User is an international interdisciplinary conference that takes place in Bulgaria every two years and features a wide variety of current trends in network activities intended to develop a better theoretical and practical understanding of the creative use of new media and technologies. The third edition of Net User conference was last month on an island in the Black Sea, a mile away from Burgas, Bulgaria.

The following is Sam Hiser's comment on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Information Domain -- Enterprise Technical Reference Models draft document, version 3.5. (The Office of the Chief Information Officer requested that public comments be made by Friday, September 9, 2005.)

In an earlier blog I had discussed as to when a PHP CMS is a better option than a Java CMS. TheServerside.com had later referred to the blog in the thread Ask TSS: Do any Java CMS/Portals match the PHP ones?

First shipping OpenSolaris distro, Schillix, shows promise, but Sun has much left to do.

The city of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to migrate to Linux.

Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible way

Many of you might have questions around successful business models. Recent Forbes article on SourceForge and the blog on SugarCRM's functionality differences between open source and pro versions raise interesting questions. If you are contemplating on a new open source venture - my recommendation is not to differentiate (functionally) between the commercial and open source versions, like in the case of MySQL's dual license. From my conversations with CIOs, enteprise architects and IT developers there are three major reasons for adopting open source: 1. No vendor lock-in and proprietary code 2. Freedom to change or enhance - free in libre 3. Cost effective - pay for tangible services and not for the software

David Boswell writes: "This September mozdev turns 5 years old. The site has been providing free project hosting and development tools to the Mozilla community since 2000 and now supports over 200 active projects. This year we are celebrating the anniversary by trying to raise $5000 to pay for new hardware and ongoing hosting costs. If you are able, please consider making a donation to help support the mozdev.org community site. Thank you for all of your support over the years."

DistroWatch reports - The fourth test release of the upcoming Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Breezy Badger is available for download and testing: Colony CD 4 is ready. This will be the last Colony CD release before the Breezy preview, so any testing you can provide is appreciated. If you test it, be sure to send us a report to ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com. Significant installer changes since Colony 3 include: many fixes to the live CD, including usplash integration; GRUB tries harder to boot even when the BIOS fails to pass a boot drive; APT configuration when the network is unavailable should now be much faster...

OSDir has put together a screenshot tour of Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Colony 4.

A plan to move 14,000 desktops from Windows has been delayed by a year, partly because of the need for an additional pilot phase.

Ah, the time one could spend bouncing around from blog to blog -- co-workers, customers, competitors -- thoughts from all of them may be just a few clicks away. Co-workers, competitors, and customers? Why not? Yet while some see blogs in business as a growing trend that may become standard enterprise procedure, analysts say there are still hurdles organizations must overcome before blogs can boost productivity.

Among the hundreds of Linux distributions, only a handful get much media attention, and only a small segment of those have become household words in the Linux community. At Distrowatch.com, one of the better known Linux ranking sites, you'll see the same names week after week in the top 20 -- Ubuntu, Mepis, Fedora, Slackware, etc. So who is using the bottom 80? And why?

Andrew Morton [interview] provided an update on the current development status of the Linux kernel. As of his announcement, the latest development release is 2.6.13-git5, with 2.6.14 expected around October 7'th. At this time, Andrew is tracking 144 bugs though he notes, "I haven't culled these yet - some may be fixed." Indeed, a number of replies indicated that several of the listed bugs have been fixed.

As more companies move to open-source platforms, enterprise-application vendors adapt their software for the new environments

Three U.S. think-tanks which campaign against government regulation have asked permission to present arguments in support of Microsoft Corp. as part of its appeal of a European Union antitrust ruling. One of the three organizations, the International Intellectual Property Institute, has a Microsoft employee on its board of directors. The other organizations are the Progress and Freedom Foundation and the Institute for Policy Innovation.

Silveroffice, a startup Goffice.com with a browser-based PDF tool as the first in its planned series of browser-based office products.

Companies trying to establish credibility as open-source enterprise-apps vendors include ComPiere, which installed its first deployment in 2000; OpenMFG; and CRM vendor SugarCRM.

Open source software evolves and matures at a rapid pace because its users are essentially also testers and take co-ownership of the products they like. Walter Kruse looks at some of the tools and techniques that can be used by the open source community to build and test better applications.

Spearheaded by the government, South Korea is making increased use of an open-source operating system called Linux. It is bad news for Microsoft, the world’s foremost software maker that dominates the operating system market with several versions of its Windows program.

Mentor Graphics has announced its support for 64bit Linux platforms by declaring full operational qualification for its analogue/mixed-signal toolset. Mentor's entire line of Eldo and Advance MST analogue and mixed-signal products have been certified for operation on Opteron and EM64 processor architectures using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 platform. 'Linux on X86-64 hardware is proving to be a great performance platform for our products', said Jue-Hsien Chern, Vice President and General Manager of Mentor's Deep Submicron Division.