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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements OSDL/FSG announce collaboration The Free Standards Group (FSG) and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) have announced a collaboration to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) with new services to support software vendors developing applications for Linux.
Commercial announcements IBM Rolls Out New Linux Server Using Power5 Chip IBM has announced a new computer server using its Power5 microprocessor tuned for the Linux operating system. "The OpenPower 720 server will be available Sept. 24 and can be powered by as many as four Power5 chips, IBM said. In the first half of next year, the company will start selling OpenPower servers using two Power5 processors."
Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing Software announced Intel has announced a new telecom software package for Linux. "The Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing Software release 1.2 for Linux is the first high density, commercially supported software offering the flexibility and value of open platforms. This software-only building block for communications providers eliminates the need for specialized telephony boards with digital signal processors, but still provides the media processing power to develop applications such as interactive voice response, voice mail, unified messaging and conferencing."
Modulus Video Introduces Real-Time MPEG-4 AVC Encoding and Decoding Systems Modulus Video, Inc. has announced a new Linux-based video encoder/decoder. "Built on an open Intel Linux platform, Modulus Video products leverage the entire MPEG-4 AVC standard to offer an easily deployable, highly scalable and cost-effective solution for reliably delivering broadcast-quality video using significantly less bandwidth than legacy MPEG-2 systems."
MySQL Appoints Maurizio Gianola Vice President of Software Engineering MySQL has announced the appointment of Maurizio Gianola as Vice President of Software Engineering at its Silicon Valley Office.
Bernard Liautaud Joins MySQL Board of Directors MySQL has announced the appointment of Bernard Liautaud to its Board of Directors. "Liautaud is one of the most highly respected software executives in Silicon Valley and Europe. He co-founded Business Objects in 1990 and has built it into a nearly $900 million enterprise software vendor with more than 26,000 customers in over 80 countries. He took the company public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first French software company listed in the United States."
Navicat 5.0.2 (MySQL tools) Navicat has released Navicat MySQL tools version 5.0.2, now with Stored Procedure and Batch Job Scheduling.
Linux-based telemarketing The next time a telemarketer interrupts your dinner to try to sell you something, you can take some comfort in the fact that they are likely to be running on Linux. SER Solutions, Inc. has announced the availability of Call Processing System 8.0, with lots of great features like "third-party quality monitoring," and "sophisticated predictive dialing." "By utilizing Novell SUSE LINUX, SER is able to take advantage of new hardware and software available on the platform and leverage the reliability, security, scalability, and support Novell and SUSE LINUX are known for."
Sleepycat/MontaVista provide open source software for Motorola a780 in U.S. Sleepycat and MontaVista have announced that their embedded solutions have been chosen for the Motorola A780 smart phones.
Open Source Applications Leader SugarCRM Debuts Sugar Sales Professional SugarCRM Inc. has announced the release of Sugar Sales Professional, a LAMP based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application.
New Books "CSS Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt.
"PDF Hacks" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book PDF Hacks by Sid Steward.
"Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools by Kerry Cox and Christopher Gerg.
No Starch Press releases "The Web Programmer's Desk Reference" No Starch Press has published the book The Web Programmer's Desk Reference by Lazaro Issi Cohen and Joseph Issi Cohen.
New Book: Foundations of Python Network Programming APress has published the book Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen.
Resources IOSN Releases Draft Primer on Free/Open Source Software Licensing IOSN has released a draft version of a primer on free/open source software licensing. The primer is available for review and feedback.
LDP Weekly News The September 15, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation releases.
LPI July/August Newsletter The July/August edition of the Linux Professional Institute newsletter is online.
Advances in Samba4 Volker Lendecke's paper Advances in Samba4 is available in PDF format. "The paper offers a nice overview of the reasoning behind creating Samba4, and outlines four areas of code where Samba4 is an improvement over Samba 3."
Contests and Awards Linus wins Economist award The Economist has announced the winners of its 3rd annual "Innovation Awards." The victor in the computing area is Linus Torvalds.
KTurtle Won 3rd Prize in Dutch Educational Contest KTurtle, a Logo programming language interpreter for KDE, has won third prize in a Dutch Educational contest. "The technical jury was very pleased with the looks of KTurtle, good configuration options and a very nice manual and the educational jury said "Some renewed attention to LOGO is very much welcome.""
Fred Trotter Receives 2004 Linux Medical News Achievement Award (LinuxMedNews) Fred Trotter has been awarded the 2004 Linux Medical News Achievement Award. "Trotter is the founder of the Free Medical Billing (FreeB) project as well as working on the FreeMed poject."
Event Reports Open source at medinfo2004 (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews covers the open-source activity at the medinfo2004 conference. "The joint meeting of the IMIA, IMIA-NI and AMIA Open Source Working Groups was held yesterday, 8 September, at medinfo2004. We had a good attendance (40-50 people), with presentations on the 3 groups and then a discussion and session of interactive digital voting."
Upcoming Events Italian Code Jam The Italian Code Jam will be held on October 9, 2004 in the center of Engineering Department of Ferrara's University. "Some of the speakers that will take part are: Andrea Arcangeli, Moshe Bar, Francesco Ciriaci, Dave Cross, Alex Martelli, Allison Randall, Michele Simionato, Simo Sorce, e Larry Wall."
Events: September 16 - November 11, 2004
Web sites LinuxQuestions.org Wiki Reaches 2000 Article Mark The LinuxQuestions.org Wiki has reached the 2000 article mile mark. "Released in February 2004, the LQ Wiki allows users to collaboratively build a free, complete and up-to-date Linux knowledgebase and aims to become the largest general-knowledge Linux repository on the web. It is free to join or use the LQ Wiki and any user can add or edit content. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, ensuring that it remains freely redistributable."
Software announcements This week's software announcements Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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