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Three former BEA Systems executives have launched a company they hope will become the Dell of open-source software. Lead by Byron Sebastian, CEO, Cornelius Willis, VP of sales and marketing, and Will Pugh, chief architect, the Bellevue, Wash.-based SourceLabs will assemble, certify, test and provide ongoing support services for open-source applications and infrastructure products.

Cray has begun selling its XD1 systems, machines using Opteron processors and the Linux operating system that the supercomputer specialist hopes will give it a better foothold in the lower end of the market.

A NSW [Australia] Government tender for open source software has caused a political stoush, with Minister for Commerce, John Della Bosca, slammed by the Opposition.

The United Nation's (UN's) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has adopted a "development agenda" that acknowledges the need for balance in worldwide policy on trademark, copyright, and patents. In the past, WIPO has been roundly resistant to attempts to balance the interests of copyright holders, who make up the majority of WIPO participants, and the public, which had never been represented at the meetings.

IBM has just completed a three-year, US$100 million overhaul of the software engine behind the world's airline, hotel and rental car reservations systems, and credit-card systems like Visa and American Express.

The Coalition, Labor, the Democrats and the Greens all believes that open source has an important role to play in the Australian economy, the industry body for open source within Australia said in a statement today. However, Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) director Brendan Scott said that while Labor, the Democrats and the Greens were actively supportive of open source procurement, the Coalition was silent on the issue.

ID Software has graced us today with the Linux Demo and Full Version of Doom 3. You can find their new Linux site for Doom 3 with all of the information you'll need to download and install both versions.

Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statements" about HP's commitment to its version of Unix--but Sun is standing firm.

It's not perfect yet, but Eclipse marks a new way of developing applications.

TopCoder announced on September 29 the completion of the final elimination round in the Algorithm Competition portion of its 2004 annual TopCoder Open coding contest. But the real winner may be TopCoder's open source development model, which gives programmers a chance to build enterprise applications for cash prizes.

Tech analysis: Red Hat project aims to centrally manage all users, connected or not.

Hoping to put in place the last missing piece of the Java stack, Gluecode Software and the Apache Software Foundation this week unwrapped Project Agila, which the companies claim is the first embeddable open source BPM engine.

Want to read a good book? How about a good book on Linux? Rob Reilly files this report on the State of the Linux Publishing Market.

The Brazilian government is pushing an effort to deliver an open-source version of Java that could put control of the platform into the hands of grass-roots developers around the globe and add fuel to the debate over Java's ownership.

Vendors and European consortium vie to deliver a secure, manageable, and affordable version of the open-source operating system

Before Airtel deployed a voicemail application built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, its top management was understandably concerned. Like in many other enterprises in Asia, Linux was not a common operating system (OS) of choice for Airtel, and they had concerns about using it.

What do we in the free software community do when faced with allegations of code theft? On the other hand, what do you as a businessman or developer do if you suspect free software developers have stolen your proprietary code? These two questions are coming up more often nowadays, both as genuine issues and as weapons used by failing proprietary software firms. We asked several industry experts for their opinions on these issues.

The world of Web browsing has reached a tipping point. Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has been and remains the de facto standard for Internet users. But for the first time since the late '90s, when Redmond quashed Netscape, Microsoft has some real competition.

A potential open source business process management challenger to packages from platform vendors has been picked up by the Apache Software Foundation.

I maintain both a Linux and a Windows machine for my own use. I like the Windows interface, but whenever possible I avoid Microsoft's bundled applications. When the recent installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 forced me to accept or decline Windows Media Player 9 and its digital rights management features, I declined, and found two open source alternatives I couldn't be happier with.