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Gluecode Software announced this week that it has contributed what it says is the first open-source business process management (BPM) engine to the Apache Software Foundation.

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's not too often that you get up from your chair, and someone like Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang -- who couldn't find a seat previously -- comes over and replaces you. That was emblematic of the first Web 2.0 Conference, staged by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International and which concluded a three-day run Thursday at the Hotel Nikko. There were stars everywhere you looked.

The granting of patents for software ideas will be the death blow to free software developers, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, Richard M. Stallman, told an audience in Melbourne last night.

Putting bias aside, interested in a frank discussion? Tom Adelstein knows a lot about Sun and sets out here to give the whole story behind Sun and Red Hat's disagreements.

LinuxWorld: The London mayor's IT adviser says that the use of open-source software such as Linux is a pretty low priority for IT managers in local government.

-- OES Will Include the Latest Version of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, Including Service Pack

"The Standard Edition of Xandros Desktop 2 provides an intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box and offers unrivaled compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Whether you're at home, school, or at work you'll find just what you need to share files, write a report, surf the Internet, listen to music, play games, or do almost anything else."

The benchmarks show that Windows XP outperforms Linux on the same hardware and the same official drivers from Nvidia. Windows XP simply does a better job at running games on this configuration.

FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird DBMS.

Brief description of AIO implementation for Oracle9iR2(9.2.0.5) on Red Hat Fedora Core 2

Agency CIO and his team have led with open source for over a decade.

Jason Macer never really cared what operating system was running on his servers when the Dallas area businessman's Web hosting resale business peaked with 26 servers last March. But Macer found out that lots of folks did care, and were leaving him because of it. It was not Windows that was the problem, it was SCO. Macer's hosting vendor, EV1 Servers.net, had signed on for SCO's Linux user license. Macer's customers reacted by seeking hosting elsewhere, cutting his business down to just two servers.

Guardian Digital, based in Allendale, New Jersey, is supplying security and productivity applications for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarters. And, according to Guardian Digital spokesperson Nicole Pearson, ISRO made the first contact.

Software company Netline claims its decision to go open source with the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.

SteelEye announced last week LifeKeeper for LAMP, an application availability management tool for the open source environments known as LAMP (for Linux; Apache Web server; MySQL and PHP, Perl or Python).

Years ago everyone I knew who tried Linux also tried Red Hat, but then Red Hat started to turn itself into the new Microsoft and people who were able to make their own decisions promptly switched to SuSE. Today, most users have moved on to Debian -- my own favorite after Caldera became too hot to mention.

Software company Netline claims its decision to open source the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

Unless you have specifically created your own personal layout for LXer, today you have noticed that there is a new look. There's more features involved in this upgrade, discussed within.

Austin is playing host to a new con this week. It's a Linux con. It's a science fiction con. It's Linucon. The show is a sister show to Penguincon, held in Michigan. It is the result of a grass-roots organizing effort by Rob Landley and Stu Green, two longtime members of Austin's Linux scene.