Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft's Office "Test Drive"

The folks at OpenOffice.org respond to the Microsoft Office 2007 test drive campaign. "Microsoft today announced the opening of a "test drive" so that people can see what Microsoft Office 2007 might look like when it finally goes on sale. The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential upgraders to go one better - download the full OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a test drive, and if you like it, use it free for as long as you like. It's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the test drive, keep the car!"

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Commercial announcements

2X ApplicationServer publishes Windows apps on Linux

2X Software Ltd has announced the release of the 2X ApplicationServer Linux client, which allows Windows applications to be run under Linux. "Until now, Linux users could only run Windows applications using Windows simulation software (e.g. WINE). This type of software is typically difficult to configure and only works with a limited number of applications. In addition, this generally would only support older versions. With 2X ApplicationServer however, any Windows application can be tunneled via RDP onto a Linux desktop."

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ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 is launched

ActiveGrid, Inc. has announced the availability of the ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 development environment. "ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 is now the first enterprise solution on the market that rolls AJAX, mash-ups, and the ability to take advantage of exposed back-ends in SOA architectures into a development tool that's easy to use and optimized for common enterprise configurations."

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Bell Microproducts Inks Deal With Red Hat

Bell Microproducts Inc. has announced a partnership with Red Hat, Inc. ""Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the market-leading open source platform in our core markets," said Gary Gammon, senior vice president of marketing for Bell Microproducts' Enterprise Division. "This partnership allows us to provide a one-stop-shopping opportunity for our customers by providing solutions that are built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

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CodeWeavers announces CrossOver Office 5.0.3

CodeWeavers has announced versions 5.0.3 of their CrossOver Office Server and CrossOver Office Professional products. "This version will bring all of the CrossOver 5.0 features, including support for Office 2003 and the ability to manage virtual Windows environments (aka Bottles), to the Solaris and Linux thin client environments."

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CrystalTech Offers Linux Dedicated Plan (WHIR News)

Web hoster CrystalTech is offering a Linux-based dedicated hosting plan that costs $49.95 per month. "The feature-rich Linux Dedicated plan features a 1.8GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 250GB of bandwidth each month."

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Empower Technologies Collaborates With TI University Program

Empower Technologies Corporation has announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments Incorporated. "Technologies Corporation (Empower) is very pleased to announce that it has begun a joint international sales effort with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to promote its LDK591x family of LEOs (LinuxDA Embedded O/S) for TI's OMAP591x dual-core processor embedded software development kits to over 2,000 of the top universities and technical colleges worldwide."

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Novell Names Ron Hovsepian as CEO

Novell, Inc. has announced the selection of Ronald Hovsepian as its new CEO, he will replace Jack Messman. "Novell, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has elected President Ronald W. Hovsepian, 45, to the additional position of chief executive officer, effective immediately. Hovsepian, who also has been elected to the Board of Directors, has been president and chief operating officer since October 2005. The Company also announced that Thomas G. Plaskett, a director of Novell since November 2002, has been elected non-executive Chairman of the Novell Board."

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OpenLogic Launches OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0

OpenLogic, Inc. has announced the release of OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0. "OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0 gives enterprises a central repository of approved, certified open source products within the corporate firewall; enables companies to automatically install, configure and integrate this software on remote servers and desktops (using existing software deployment tools if they choose) and provides an audit trail of open source software deployment. As with past versions, OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0 allows enterprises to control which open source products are included in the approved library, and can limit usage on various criteria including license type."

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SGI Launches New Mid-Range Altix 450 Servers

SGI has announced a new blade server product. "The new Linux(R) systems will deliver double the performance of today's award-winning Altix(R) servers, while drawing less power and offering more density and flexibility for demanding, data-intensive applications. The new SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 bolsters SGI's mid-range offerings with up to 2.5 times the system performance of the current Altix(R) 350(R) server at a lower cost. With dual-core Itanium 2 processors, SGI also is dramatically increasing the performance of its existing SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 servers at no extra system cost to customers."

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SecuGen announces new Biometric Software

SecuGen Corporation has announced release 9 of its fingerprint recognition Software Developer Kit. "SecuGen's minutiae-based fingerprint recognition technology allows a person's fingerprints to work like unique digital codes that are more secure and convenient than passwords and that are not easily lost, stolen or forgotten. This newest release of the SecuGen SDK Collection provides software developers with the widest choice of operating system platforms for their biometric applications."

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Wing IDE 2.1 released

Version 2.1 of Wing IDE, the Advanced Software Development Environment for Python, is out. "Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code."

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New Books

Apress publishes The Definitive Guide to SQLite

Apress has published the book The Definitive Guide to SQLite by Mike Owens.

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Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications--SitePoint's latest release

SitePoint has published the book Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications by Matthew Eernisse.

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Pragmatic Bookshelf releases "From Java To Ruby"

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book From Java To Ruby by Bruce Tate.

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Education and Certification

LPI to Offer MySQL 5.0 Certification Exams

The Linux Professional Institute has announced new MySQL exams. " Linux Professional Institute (LPI) the world's premier Linux certification organization, and MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular Open Source database, today announced a joint initiative to offer MySQL 5.0 certification exams through LPI's global proctor network, beginning with the C3 Expo, June 27th – 29th, 2006 at the Javits Center in New York City. Prosoft Learning Corporation, LPI's affiliate in North America will be offering these exams at C3 Expo along with LPI Certification exams."

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LPI and Canonical Announce World's First Ubuntu Professionals

The Linux Professional Institute and Canonical Ltd. have "... jointly announced the world's first Ubuntu Certified Professionals: Fred Strauss and Khayeni Ndlovu of Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Strauss and Mr. Ndlovu were amongst a group of people who wrote paper versions of the Ubuntu certification exam at LinuxWorld Johannesburg on May 18, 2006. The Ubuntu Certified Professional exam is now available worldwide at over 7,000 Thomson Prometric and Pearson VUE testing centres."

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Calls for Presentations

aKademy Deadline Approaching (KDE.News)

KDE.News has sent out a reminder for aKademy 2006 presentations. "The deadline for aKademy 2006 submissions is fast approaching. We are still looking for technical contributions, community success stories, tales of interoperability, industrial innovation and integration and cross-desktop creativity. The Call For Papers says that a 300 word abstract and a short bio is needed to secure your place for consideration by the programme committee." Submissions are due by June 30, 2006.

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Upcoming Events

The 2006 Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo

The 2006 Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo has been announced. "Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo is the world's only event dedicated to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. This conference will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature technical presentations, formal papers, poster sessions, and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings." The event will take place at the Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore on October 1-4, 2006.

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KDE Libs Hackers to Meet for KDE Four Core (KDE.News)

KDE.News mentions the upcoming KDE Four Core meeting. "In another event in the series of meetings leading to the KDE 4.0 release, the developers of the core libraries will meet in the Norwegian woods (this bird has flown) from July 1st to July 7th. This meeting, co-sponsored by Trolltech and SUSE, is labelled KDE Four Core, as it is intended to be the direct successor of the KDE Three Beta and KDE Three meetings, that led to the refining of KDE releases 2.0 and 3.0 respectively. But, unlike those, this meeting is only one in a series of "KDE Four" meetings, that started with KDE Four Multimedia."

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Ohio LinuxFest 2006 schedule announced

The Ohio LinuxFest 2006 event will take place in Columbus, Ohio on September 30, 2006. "The LinuxFest will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and is a single-day event with sessions for experienced and inexperienced Linux users, as well as an expo floor for commercial exhibitors and non-profit Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. More than 700 people attended the LinuxFest last year, and organizers expect an even larger turnout this year."

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Plone Conference 2006 announced

The Plone Conference 2006 event has been announced. "Plone Conference 2006 will be held October 25-27, 2006 at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms in Seattle, Washington USA!"

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SciPy 2006 Tutorials

The tutorial sessions for the 2006 SciPy conference have been announced. "As part of this year's SciPy 2006 Conference, we've planned Coding Sprints on Monday and Tuesday (August 14-15) and a Tutorial Day Wednesday (August 16)--the normal conference presentations follow on Thursday and Friday (August 17-18)."

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Events: June 29 - August 24, 2006

Date	Event	Location
June 29, 2006	Corporate Channel and Computing Expo(C3)	(Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, NY
June 29 - 30, 2006	GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit	(Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada
June 29 - 30, 2006	2006 GNOME Users and Developers European Conference(GUADEC)	Catalonia, Spain
June 29 - July 2, 2006	UKUUG Linux Technical Conference	(University of Sussex)Brighton, UK
June 30 - July 1, 2006	WebTech 2006	(Kempinski Hotel Zografski)Sofia, Bulgaria
July 3 - 4, 2006	3rd European Lisp Workshop	Nantes, France
July 3 - 5, 2006	EuroPython 2006	(CERN)Geneva, Switzerland
July 4 - 8, 2006	7th Libre Software Meeting(LSM)	(Nancy 1 University)Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
July 5 - 8, 2006	V Jornades de Programari Lliure	Barcelona, Spain
July 8 - 9, 2006	PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit	Toronto, Canada
July 10 - 11, 2006	Global db4o User Conference(dUC)	(Imperial College, South Kensington)London, UK
July 13 - 14, 2006	Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment(DIMVA)	Berlin, Germany
July 15 - 16, 2006	Crystal Space Conference	(University of Aachen)Aachen, Germany
July 16 - 19, 2006	2nd International Symposium on Free/Open Source Software, Technologies and Content(FOSSTEC 2006)	Orlando, Florida, USA
July 19 - 22, 2006	Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006(OLS 2006)	Ottawa, Canada
July 22 - 23, 2006	LugRadio Live	(Wolverhampton University)Wolverhampton, UK
July 24 - 28, 2006	O'Reilly Open Source Convention(OSCON 2006)	Portland, Oregon
July 29 - August 3, 2006	Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and Training	(Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV
August 4 - 6, 2006	DEF CON 14	(Riviera Hotel)Las Vegas, NV
August 4 - 6, 2006	Wikimania	(Harvard Law School)Cambridge, MA
August 4 - 6, 2006	Vancouver Python Workshop	Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 8 - 10, 2006	Flash Memory Summit	(Wyndham Hotel)San Jose, CA
August 14 - 17, 2006	LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA
August 17 - 18, 2006	Python for Scientific Computing(SciPy2006)	(Caltech)Pasadena, CA
August 18 - 19, 2006	The Ubucon Conference	(Google headquarters)Mountain View, CA

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Web sites

Microsoft Launches CodePlex, a New Collaborative Development Portal

Here's a website that free software hackers might want to avoid. Microsoft Corp. has announced CodePlex, an online collaborative software development portal that is also a vehicle for sharing source code.

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Audio and Video programs

The Linux Action Show - Episode 2

Episode #2 of the podcast The Linux Action Show is available. "In episode two (The Gaming Edition!) of The Linux Action Show! We cover a new non-profit organization being formed to establish a standard Linux-based mobile platform, and we discuss the interesting reasons the Christian Science Monitor has for switching to Open Source Software. Also, we do a in-depth comparison of a few Open Source First Person Shooters (We get our game on under Linux!), the Ethereal developer changes the project name with out discussing it with contributors, and we bounce around Google Earth for Linux."

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UbuntuOS Podcast with KDE Developer (KDE.News)

KDE.News mentions a new podcast with Jonathan Riddell. "UbuntuOS have launched their new extended Podcast with an interview of Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell discussing the plans for the next release, Kubuntu Edgy."

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