Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

The current FreeBSD Newsletter has an article stating that Sun has revoked the FreeBSD project's license to distribute the Java runtime environment. "Even after receiving notice of the termination of our license attempts to contact Sun to renegotiate the license have gone unanswered. For now, it is safe to assume that the Foundation will engage in another lengthy, and potentially costly, licensing negotiation before our binary distributions can continue."

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Restarting the software patent directive initiative in Europe?

The FFII has put out an advisory stating that 61 members of the European Parliament have introduced a motion which would restart the entire software patent directive process from the beginning. The renewed debate would allow new participation from the (enlarged) Parliament and provide a "face-saving exit" for the EU Council. It also, one hopes, would end with the adoption of a directive which does not legitimize software patents in Europe.

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open-source tools for population health epidemiology (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the NetEpi project. "NetEpi, which is short for "Network-enabled Epidemiology", is a project to create a suite of free, open source tools for epidemiology and public health practice. The project web page is at http://www.netepi.org. Anyone with an interest in population health epidemiology or public health informatics is encouraged to examine the prototype tools and to consider contributing to their further development."

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Commercial announcements

Adobe releases Acrobat 7 with Linux reader support (ZDNet)

ZDNet covers the latest commercial software releases from Adobe, including version 7 of Adobe Reader, a freely downloadable PDF viewing application. "The Linux beta version for Adobe Reader 7 isn't a surprise. Adobe is becoming more active in desktop Linux. The San Jose, Calif.-based company had released a version of Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux but skipped version 6."

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Arkeia Appoints Dave Elliott as Business Development Director

Arkeia Corp has announced the appointment of Dave Elliott as director of business development.

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C.A.C. Media and VWB Announce Commercial Success of Linux Media Center

C.A.C. Media has announced a successful commercial test launch of its Media Convergence Software Suite, which uses embedded Linux for running digital entertainment devices. ""We believe our Linux Media OS is the right choice for digital entertainment device manufacturers because it has a small footprint, possesses greater flexibility due to its open source architecture, lowers manufacturers' BOM, and has the widest and deepest feature set in the industry," said Ken Nelson, C.A.C. Media's CEO."

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Cybernet Systems upgrades NetMAX

Cybernet Systems Corporation has announced the availability of an upgrade to NetMAX Professional Suite, its easy to use Linux software for Internet appliances and network servers.

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IBM frees 500 patents

IBM has put out a press release stating that it is making 500 patents available for free software. The patents can be used with any OSI-approved license, not just the GPL. The full list of freed patents is available in PDF format. It does not include the famous RCU patents, which remain available to GPL-licensed code only. "IBM intends for this pledge to form the basis of an industry-wide 'patent commons' in which patents are used to establish a platform for further innovations in areas of broad interest to information technology developers and users."

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JBoss Releases New Open Source Middleware Apps

JBoss, Inc. has announced the release of four new versions of its open-source middleware applications. The announcement mentions JBoss Application Server 4.0.1, Hibernate 3.0 Beta, JBoss Cache 1.2, and Mod_jk 1.2.8.

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Linuxant adds native 64-bit (x86_64) support to DriverLoader

Linuxant inc. has announced the addition of native support for the x86_64 architecture to its DriverLoader software.

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Niku Announces Open Workbench 1.1 Project Scheduling Tool

Niku Corporation has announced general availability of Open Workbench(tm) 1.1, "the first enterprise-class, free-of-charge alternative to Microsoft(r) Project."

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Opera Beta for Linux

A new beta release of the Opera browser is available for Linux. "Opera Software today released the much awaited beta version of its next browser for the Linux platform. Opera is breaking ground once again with a range of new usability tools, including Fit-to-Window-Width, Fit-to-Paper-Width, improved RSS handling, Start Bar for easy access to main features, and automatic update checks -- all presented in a simplified user interface (UI). Still keeping some secrets up their sleeve, Opera has yet to reveal the name of their newest browser version."

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Oracle Database 10g Sets New World Record

Oracle Corporation has announced that their 10g database has set a new TPC-C record running on an HP four processor system with Red Hat Enterprise AS 3. "Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition (four-processor maximum) running on an HP Integrity rx4640 server with four Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 1.6 GHz processors and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 operating system, achieved world record performance of any four processor system on Linux of 161,217 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC."

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OSoft's ThoutReader Goes GPL

OSoft.com has announced that the ThoutReader(TM) is now available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. The ThoutReader(TM) is a documentation platform that allows developers to browse, search, bookmark, and append their favorite library of reference documentation as well as reference books.

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Pervasive Software Markets PostgreSQL

Pervasive Software Inc. has announced Pervasive Postgres(TM), an integrated set of open source software and services around the PostgreSQL database. ""Pervasive's help driving the rapidly growing acceptance of PostgreSQL in the mainstream business community is very welcome," said Josh Berkus, a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team, the PostgreSQL community's leadership group. "The adoption of our technology by a well-established proprietary database vendor demonstrates how cooperation between open source developers and software companies can work to benefit the entire industry.""

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Red Flag Joins OSDL

Open Source Development Labs has announced that China's Red Flag Software Company, Ltd. has joined OSDL and will participate in the lab's Desktop Linux (DTL), Carrier Grade Linux (CGL), and Data Center Linux (DCL) working groups.

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New Books

"AspectJ Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book AspectJ Cookbook by Russ Miles.

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Upcoming Events

FOSDEM: Question Leading KDE Developers (KDE.News)

KDE.News offers a chance to post questions to several FOSDEM 2005 speakers. "The biographies of KDE speakers at FOSDEM 2005 are up for Matthias Ettrich, Harald Fernengel and Alexander Dymo. FOSDEM will interview speakers before the event so if you have questions about the future of KDE or KDevelop please send them to fosdem@gmail.com or add a comment to this story and we will send them on."

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LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo has announced their upcoming event in Boston, Mass. The expo will take place on February 14-17, 2005 at the Hynes Convention Center. "LinuxWorld's conference program will illustrate how companies across the globe have achieved higher profits and increased their productivity by utilizing Linux-the fastest-growing operating system in the world."

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The LinuxWorld New York Summit 2005

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo has announced the Linux World New York Summit 2005. The event will take place at the New York City Marriott Marquis on May 25 and 26, 2005.

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AMD and RealNetworks Sign on as Desktop Linux Summit Key Sponsors

Linspire, Inc. has announced the signing of AMD and RealNetworks as key sponsors for the San Diego Desktop Linux Summit. "The Desktop Summit today announced that AMD, RealNetworks, Linspire, and other major tech companies have been added to the roster for the only event to focus exclusively on Linux and open source for the desktop. Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker, joining Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3 and founder of the Mozilla Foundation, Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire, Inc., and Doc Searls, Senior Editor at Linux Journal."

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OOoCon 2005 - Call for Location

A Call for Location has gone out for OOoCon 2005, the OpenOffice.org convention. "After Hamburg in 2003 and Berlin in 2004, we are searching for the perfect location for the OpenOffice.org Conference in 2005. We are collecting applications from teams who are willing to organize OOoCon 2005 in locations outside Germany."

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OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit in Burlingame, CA

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced its upcoming Enterprise Linux Summit. The event will take place in Burlingame, CA on February 2, 2005. "The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced the growing momentum around its brand-new Enterprise Linux Summit that will provide the Bay and Silicon Valley area's technology community access to top Linux experts."

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UKUUG Winter Conference and Perl 6 Workshop

A Perl 6 Workshop will be held in conjunction with the UKUUG LISA Winter Conference in Birmingham, England on February 24 and 25, 2005.

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Dutch Perl Workshop 2005 (use Perl)

Use Perl has announced the 2005 Dutch Perl Workshop. The event will be held on February 25, 2005 in Arnhem.

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php|tropics 2005 announced

php|tropics 2005 will be held at the Moon Palace Resort near Cancun, Mexico from May 11-15, 2005. "php|t includes over 30 hours' worth of technical sessions given by the best PHP speakers, authors and developers in the world. Most of all, you'll find yourself learning in the incredible paradise setting of one of the most luxurious, all-inclusive resorts of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico." Moon Palace Resort near Cancun, Mexico between May 11th and 15th, 2005.

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Linux Installfest workshops in Davis, CA

The Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced another Linux Installfest event. It will be held at UC Davis on January 22, 2005.

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Black Duck Software Seminars Announced

Black Duck Software has announced a series of free seminars on open-source software, the events will take place in Boston, New York, and Silicon Valley from January 13-18, 2005. "Dan Bricklin and Karen Copenhaver, two noted open source commentators, will highlight open source trends and compliance issues for 2005. They will make a compelling case for the use of open source in software development, and illustrate the new disciplines that will become a necessary part of the development process as open source achieves its full potential in the enterprise."

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Events: January 13 - March 10, 2005

Date	Event	Location
January 14, 2005	PHP West Web Services conference	(HR MacMillan Space Centre)Vancouver, BC, Canada
January 28 - February 4, 2005	Asia Source	(Visthar training venue)Bangalore, India
January 31 - February 2, 2005	OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit	(Hyatt Hotel)Burlingame, California
February 2 - 3, 2005	Solutions Linux 2004	(CNIT, Paris la Défense)Paris, France
February 7 - 11, 2005	GlobusWORLD	(Sheraton Boston Hotel)Boston, MA
February 9 - 11, 2005	German Perl-Workshop 2005	Dresden, Germany
February 9 - 11, 2005	Third-Annual Desktop Linux Summit	(Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, CA
February 9, 2005	OOo RegiCon North America	(Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, CA
February 11 - 13, 2005	CodeCon 2005	San Francisco, CA
February 12 - 13, 2005	Southern California Linux Expo 2005(SCALE)	(Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA
February 14 - 17, 2005	Linux World Conference and Expo	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
February 24 - 25, 2005	UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference	Birmingham, UK
February 25, 2005	Dutch Perl Workshop	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
February 26 - 27, 2005	Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting(FOSDEM 2005)	Brussels, Belgium
February 28 - March 3, 2005	EclipseCon 2005	(Hyatt Regency)Burlingame, CA
February 28 - March 1, 2005	Asia Debian Mini-Conf 2005	Beijing, China
March 1 - 2, 2005	JBoss World 2005 User Conference	(Omni/CNN Center)Atlanta, GA
March 2 - 4, 2005	Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium	Silver Spring, Maryland
March 2 - 3, 2005	Asia CodeFest 2005	Beijing, China
March 2 - 4, 2005	The 5th Asia Open Source Software Symposium	Beijing, China

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