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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The Open Group is developing new API setshe Open Group has announced an effort to develop new API sets. "The Open Group's Base Working Group is developing four new sets of APIs for consideration as input into the next revision of the Austin Group joint standard (IEEE Std POSIX 1003.1 and The Open Group Base Specifications). "
PubForge: software for public broadcastingA new site called PubForge aims to collect open-source software for use in the field of public broadcasting. "PubForge is looking for open-source software projects focused on the needs of public broadcasters to feature and distribute. What have you built lately?"
Sony BMG Settles Up with Music Fans for Copy-Protection DebacleThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release concerning the SONY BMG settlement. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging music fans who purchased Sony BMG music CDs containing flawed digital rights management (DRM) to submit their claims now for clean CDs and extra downloads as part of a class action lawsuit settlement. "This settlement gives consumers what they thought they were buying in the first place -- clean, safe music that will play on their computers and their iPods as well as their stereo systems," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl."
Commercial announcements Active Endpoints Announces Free BPEL Design EnvironmentActive Endpoints, Inc. has announced the availability of free downloads of its ActiveBPEL Designer Business Process Execution Language software. "ActiveBPEL Designer is a comprehensive Eclipse Ready(TM) BPEL authoring environment. The product includes extensive productivity features to speed developers through the BPEL design and testing cycle, including advanced visual controls, runtime simulation, integrated debugging and 100% standard BPEL code generation."
ActiveState acquired by employees and Pender Financial GroupThe word has been out for a while, but now we have a real press release: ActiveState, a developer of programming tools for scripting languages, has been acquired by a group consisting of Pender Financial and its own employees.
atsec information security Completes Security Evaluation of RHEL 4atsec information security corporation has completed the Common Criteria (CC) evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on a range of IBM server platforms.
CodeWeavers and WorldVistA Collaborate on Health Information SoftwareCodeWeavers, Inc. has announced a collaboration with WorldVistA with the goal of making healthcare management software freely available around the globe. "As the centerpiece of that partnership, CodeWeavers is porting the CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System) component of VistA, a free electronic health records software application developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, for use on Linux open source computers."
Mandriva to participate in NEPOMUKMandriva has announced that its EDGE-IT subsidiary has won a seat in the NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop project, funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme. The total project budget is ¤17 million, of which ¤1.8 million are reserved to EDGE-IT. Funding from the EU represents 50% of the budget. Major partners of the project includes DFKI, SAP, Thales, and IBM.
Novell provides solution for Catholic Healthcare WestNovell has announced that Catholic Healthcare West, a 9,500-bed hospital system, has implemented a Novell(R) solution to increase security and strengthen its compliance initiatives. The organization centralized identity management with Novell Identity Manager 3 to ensure only authorized users have access to patient data in accordance with HIPAA regulations, reducing administration time by 70 percent. The hospital system also anticipates saving $1.5 million by deploying Novell's SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server.
PolyServe Matrix Server Certified with Novell GroupWisePolyServe, Inc. has announced its product certification on Novell GroupWise 7 and SUSE Linux. "PolyServe today announced Novell has certified the configuration of Novell GroupWise 7 running on PolyServe Matrix Server(TM) V3 shared data clustering software. This configuration delivers improved availability and manageability for e-mail, instant messaging, scheduling and other collaboration capabilities provided by GroupWise."
Sun to Acquire AduvaSun Microsystems, Inc. has announced plans to acquire Advua. "Aduva technology allows enterprises to automate the processes associated with patch and dependency management -- providing a solution that scales from individual servers, up to large scale data centers with tens of thousands of machines in complex networks. Aduva currently runs an active dependency service for Solaris and Linux servers, easing the burden on systems administrators deploying a continuous stream of patches, updates, and changes required throughout the data center lifecycle. Aduva's multi-platform services will be available for operation by individual customers behind their own firewalls, or as an automated service from Sun's Grid."
Visual Numerics' IMSL Fortran Library to Support PathScale EKOPathPathScale Inc. has announced a port of the Visual Numerics IMSL Fortran Numerical Library to the PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite. "Support of Visual Numerics' Fortran Library will enable scientific and technical institutions using PathScale's award-winning EKOPath Compiler to better perform advanced numerical analysis, leading to an acceleration of breakthroughs in science and engineering."
New Books Pearson publishes Python Essential Reference, 3rd editionPearson has published the third edition of the book Python Essential Reference by David Beazley.
Resources Programming with PostgreSQLPostgreSQL ile Programlama is a Turkish book that is available for download under the GNU Free Documentation License. "PostgreSQL ile Programlama [Programming with PostgreSQL], is a book looks through how to connect a PostgreSQL database using C, PHP and Python interfaces."
Pervasive Software creates PostgreSQL Resource DirectoryPervasive Software Inc. has announced a new PostgreSQL database Resource Directory. ""The PostgreSQL database community is doing a great job adding tools around this powerful, enterprise-ready pen source database," said Gilbert van Cutsem, general manager, Database Products at Pervasive Software. "One inconvenience facing the community is that there is an overwhelming number of pockets of knowledge out there. That is why we compiled a central directory of what we believe are the best and most useful sites."
Upcoming Events Bleepfest: London, UKThe 2006 Bleepfest will take place in London, UK on March 25. "Bleepfest 06 will be a part-day and night event that will be like the Demos of old and where people can have the option to display what they're doing "off stage" to small groups around them or to plug into the PA and be an "event". Events will have time spaces between them so that everybody else isn't drowned out. The object is to attract people who like to play with music as well as people who are quite serious about it. The object is also to create a fun and friendly environment where people can wander around and get new ideas."
The KDE DevRoom at FOSDEMThe schedule for the KDE DevRoom at FOSDEM has been announced, the conference takes place in Brussels, Belgium on February 25 and 26, 2006.
FOSS Means Business, IrelandThe FOSS Means Business conference will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland on March 16, 2006.
The Second GPLv3 ConferenceThe Free Software Foundation has announced the second conference on the GPLv3 draft. This one will be held on April 21 and 22 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, alongside the International Free Software Forum.
Kapor and Shuttleworth to Speak at 2006 MySQL Users ConferenceMitch Kapor and Mark Shuttleworth will be the keynote speakers at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference. The event will be held on April 24-27, 2006 in Santa Clara, CA.
TimeSys Webinars on Embedded Linux DevelopmentTimeSys has announced a series of four Webinars on embedded Linux development, taking place on March 7, 14, 21 and 28. "During each session, a technical expert will guide attendees through practical embedded development tasks using LinuxLink by TimeSys(TM), a continuously updated, Web-based resource for embedded Linux development."
Events: February 23 - April 20, 2006
Web sites New KDE Localisation Website (KDE.News)KDE.News mentions the new KDE Localisation web site. " After 6 months of development, the KDE Localisation (l10n) website web site has been launched replacing the old i18n.kde.org. It uses the default KDE layout, and its admins hope this site will help the KDE translation process work better than ever. Read on for the details. This refactoring, for the moment, mostly modifies scripts, pages, and styles on the site."
validator.annodex.org service announcedAn Annodex Media Validation Service is available. "The Annodex Foundation is pleased to announce the general availability of the Annodex Media Validation Service, a free service that checks Web-accessible Ogg, CMML and Annodex media resources for conformance to Annodex and Xiph.Org specifications:" http://validator.annodex.org/.
Audio and Video programs l.o.s.s. open-source sound projectThe l.o.s.s. open-source sound project has been announced. "As well as a CD of curated work (also available for free download), the project's online presence is intended to become a focal point for artists working with open source software, and releasing their work through CC licenses."
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