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Open-source programmers might not like the idea of software patents, but those critics would be better off adapting to the fact that they're not going away, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said Tuesday.

While HSQLDB is a interesting little database, I really hope no enterprise is using it for mission critical applications.

This is the third in our series of interviews with QGIS developers and users. Today we travel to the Netherlands to meet Steven Ottens (known as stvn on IRC).

Novell Delivers Linux for All Corporate Requirements for Desktop, Workgroups, Data Center and High Performance Computing

Pogo Linux Launches New Solutions at LinuxWorld Boston

Microsoft has denied reports that it told Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen it would pull Microsoft jobs out of Denmark if the government continued to oppose the European directive on Computer Implemented Inventions (CII).

Combination of Linux and Novell NetWare Delivers World's First 'Mixed-Source' Solution for the Enterprise

Novell to Give Customers the Data Center Functionality and Quality They Demand With Greater Flexibility at a Lower Cost at the Heart of the Enterprise

Novell to Resell and Support PolyServe Matrix Server Worldwide

Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 First Linux Distribution to Complete Evaluation Assurance Level EAL4+

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has set up a taskforce to investigate the implications for open source technology of a change in European patent law and to provide a cohesive response to the current debate.

TimeSys Launches First Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 Upgrade Program

Within the last hour, CNET News.com has revealed that Microsoft will release a beta of Internet Explorer 7 this Summer. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the new browser version at the RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco.

Some hackers in Florence and other Italian cities are busy these days putting together Carovana X, an Italian-led initiative to help some Senegal communities. The members of this project are raising funds, assembling used computers, refurbishing them with Linux, and also collecting medical equipment and other first-necessity items. Besides Linux, the list already includes one ambulance and 26 hospital beds.

Microsoft has denied threatening to take jobs away from Denmark if the Danish government supported the software patent directive.

Open-source software company MySQL has revamped its pricing and licensing practices in an effort to make its database more attractive to corporate customers.

Ask Jeeves is considering working with the Mozilla Foundation and contributing to the Mozilla project. Tuoc Luong, Ask Jeeves' executive vice president of technology, and Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties, met with the Foundation late last month. Three possible areas of collaboration were discussed: Ask Jeeves Desktop Search, Mozilla Firefox and XUL. On the Ask Jeeves Blog, Luong has outlined the various possibilities.

At the annual LinuxWorld Conference& Expo this week, top-tier vendors in the Linux space will roll out a raft of enterprise products, with a few vendors laying out road maps for pushing their open source strategies higher in the enterprise.

digikam and kde-look.org are teaming up to have a contest for the best new superimpose templates to be included in digikam's next release!

PCLinuxOS is without a doubt one of the cleaner and easier to use Linux Distributions available today. Based on Mandrake, with development led by Texstar, it continues to be a Live CD distribution that often finds it's way as a permanent solution for many desktop workstations. The latest release is looked at by a GUILinux Team Member. Read the full review Here.